Gender Empowerment Series: EVERY BODY

Movie screening and discussion with director Julie Cohen

From Julie Cohen, the director of RBG and The Sturgeon Queens, comes Every Body – a revelatory investigation of the lives of intersex people. The film tells the stories of three individuals, actor and screenwriter River Gallo, political consultant Alicia Roth Weigel, and Ph.D. student Sean Saifa Wall, who have moved from childhoods marked by shame, secrecy, and non-consensual surgeries to thriving adulthoods after each decided to set aside medical advice to keep their bodies a secret and instead came out as their authentic selves. Woven into the story is a stranger-than-fiction case of medical abuse, featuring exclusive footage from the NBC News archives, which helps explain the modern-day treatment of intersex people. (USA, 2023, 92 mins, English | Dir. Julie Cohen)