We’re building something that’s never existed before.

The Intersex Healing Club is Chicago’s first community organization dedicated to providing free, accessible healing events specifically for intersex people.

Why This Matters
For too long, intersex people have been pathologized, medicalized, and told our bodies are problems to fix. Many of us have experienced non-consensual surgeries, medical trauma, and isolation.
But healing is possible. Community is possible. Joy is possible.

What We’re Creating
Last month, alongside my co-host Hans, and our volunteer healing practitioners Jamila Woods and Christina Corso, we held our first event: sound healing and gentle embodiment stretching. Intersex people gathered in a space where we didn’t have to explain ourselves first. Where our bodies were honored, not fixed. Where we could simply be together.

The response was overwhelming.

People told us they’d never experienced anything like it.

How Your Donation Helps
We’re 100% volunteer-run. Every single dollar goes directly to:

• Healing practitioners who lead our sessions ($300-500/event)
• Snacks and refreshments to nourish our community ($50-75)
• Accessibility supplies (chairs, mats, cushions) ($50-100)
• Outreach costs (flyers, website hosting, newsletter) ($50-100)
• Transportation support (gas, parking reimbursement for attendees who need it) ($50-150)

Each event costs between $500-$1,000 to run.

Our Goal
We’re raising funds to host our next 2-3 healing events in early 2025. We want to keep these gatherings completely FREE so cost is never a barrier to healing.

What People Are Saying
“I’ve never been in a room where I didn’t have to explain myself first. I felt so held.”
“This is what our community has needed for so long.”

”please do MORE!”

About the Founder
I’m Pidgeon Pagonis - intersex activist, writer, and filmmaker. I’ve spent over a decade advocating for intersex human rights, co-founded the Intersex Justice Project, and was honored as an LGBT Champion of Change by the Obama White House. My memoir “Nobody Needs to Know” tells the story of discovering I was intersex and the truth about my childhood surgeries.

The Intersex Healing Club is born from everything I’ve learned: that advocacy is essential, AND our community deserves spaces of rest, restoration, and joy.

Every Amount Matters
• $25 feeds 5 people at an event
• $50 covers supplies for an entire gathering
• $100 supports a healing practitioner for an hour
• $250 funds half of an event
• $500 makes a full event possible

This Giving Tuesday, help us build healing spaces that center intersex joy, care, and community.

Our work is rare. It’s necessary. And it’s just beginning.

With gratitude,
Pidgeon Pagonis
Founder, Intersex Healing Club

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