{"id":7113,"date":"2023-01-01T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/?p=7113"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:29:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:29:59","slug":"2023-yaya-m-voices-founded-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/2023-yaya-m-voices-founded-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 \u2014 Yaya M Voices Founded, South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2023 \u2014 Yaya M Voices Founded, South Africa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Founded in South Africa in 2023 by Ayanda (Yaya) Mqakayi, Yaya M Voices works primarily with intersex people, LGBTQIA+ communities, young people, artists, activists, and communities impacted by silence, stigma, and bodily discrimination. The organisation’s work also speaks to families, especially mothers of intersex children, through education, storytelling, and visibility. Yaya M Voices focuses on documenting and archiving intersex lives, histories, and lived experiences through photography, film, storytelling, interviews, creative activism, and community engagement. Their work challenges medical erasure, social stigma, and invisibility while preserving intersex existence through visual and historical documentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vision<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A world where intersex people are fully recognised, respected, protected, and visible as part of natural human diversity, and where future generations grow up with access to truthful representation, history, dignity, and bodily autonomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mission<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To create and preserve intersex-led archives, stories, and visual histories through creative documentation and advocacy. The organisation aims to reclaim narrative ownership by ensuring that intersex people speak for themselves and are represented through their own lived realities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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