Collaborative Portraits for Intersex Justice

Gabrielle Le Roux is a queer South African portrait artist, activist, and filmmaker whose collaborative practice is grounded in feminisms of the Global South and transfeminisms worldwide. Le Roux's work combines portraits drawn from life with first-person narratives to center and amplify social justice activists as teachers whose authority comes from their lived experience, cocreating art that is intended to contribute to social transformation.

Nthabiseng Mokoena is an intersex and genderqueer Black feminist and activist who has worked extensively in southern and eastern Africa on intersex and transgender human rights and access to healthcare. Nthabiseng is passionate about SOGIE issues, universal health care, and economic equality and liberation for all. Nthabiseng passionately believes in the power of media and film in highlighting social justice issues and advocacy.

Julius Kaggwa is the executive director of Support Initiative for People with Atypical Sex Development (SIPD) Uganda, the first intersex human rights organization in Uganda. He advocates for the human rights and dignity of intersex and gender-nonbinary people in Uganda and internationally. He is author of From Juliet to Julius (1997), possibly the first book on the African continent tracing the life of an intersex person.

Hana Aoi is a writer, scholar, and advocate for the human rights of intersex people. She is the founder of Vivir y Ser Intersex (vivirintersex.org), a space for critical thinking on intersex. Hana graduated with a master's degree in women's studies from Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City and is currently working toward her PhD.