Süper Kahraman Interseks/Superhero Intersex

 is a documentary about three intersex people who became activists after their childhood years full of shame, secrecy, and non-consensual surgeries, gained their empowerment and started an organization (İnter Dayanışma Türkiye/Inter Solidarity Turkey) that talks about their experiences. Along with the characters, we also witness the development of recent intersex activism in Turkey.

Superhero Intersex

, each video's running time is approximately 6 minutes, all videos are animated in a fashion that is very much "do-it-yourself" aesthetic, as told from the point of view of a transgender youth in rural Cape Breton. 

Alec’s animated video trilogy about growing up 2Spirit called Misadventures of Pussy Boy has been screened at numerous film festivals, including TranScreen: International Transgender Film Festival in Amsterdam, where it won the Audience Favorite award. Rough Paradise, a novella about growing up trans/intersex/2spirit in a rough working-class neighborhood, was published in 2014.

Each video was animated by hand, the backgrounds were created like theatre backdrops, with the characters hand-painted and cut out, performing each scene in front of the matching background for the scene. Camera work involved shooting each shot for 3-5 seconds and then manipulating the characters for the next shot over and over again, for hours, then editing the shots together and recording the voice over and music track. These videos are the epitome of "handmade", they were literally a labor of love.

The Misadventures of Pussy Boy Trilogy

 was a track athlete, who won a gold medal and a world record in the 800 m run in 1934 at Women’s World Games in London, representing Czechoslovakia. A few months after that, 

 had a sex change. All of his sport achievements were revoked as a result. To this day, it is unclear whether Koubek was trans or an intersex person, however, his own descriptions of this experiences are very closely related to the contemporary view of transness. The life of 

 is discussed in more detail in the book from 2017 by P. Kovář, Příběh české rekordwoman: Zákulisí největšího sportovního skandálu první republiky (The Story of Czech Record Holder: Behind the scenes of the biggest sports scandal of the First Republic).

"I'm a world record holder, that's how they write about me in the newspapers. At the 1934 World Women's Games in London, I win the eight hundred meters and break the world record for the second time. The newspapers are full of articles about me. Sports fans I don't know stop me on the streets and ask for an autograph. Me, a twenty-two-year-old, ordinary girl from Brno, unknown until recently,"

"There were not thousands of fans, only hundreds. But it was a beauty, an unforgettable joy. But we are only athletes, we are far from the fame of football players. I know that joy sometimes ends in sadness. For example, it has been bothering me for a long time that I beat girls in athletic competitions, but I feel less and less like a girl myself. That's why I fall asleep and read with the question: Is it fair of me?!"

“I fulfill the role of a woman, but it costs me more and more strength. I'm probably trapped in a male body.”

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Intersex