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...recent years, however, the need for swift and irreversible intervention has been called into question. Adult intersexuals are stepping from the shadows to talk about their experiences, including the harmful effects they attribute to extensive childhood surgery. Some complain that they were assigned the wrong sex at birth. Others are more upset about the secrecy and shame their condition often elicited from their family. There is growing evidence that such surgery can interfere with the ability to achieve sexual gratification, that it can cause chronic incontinence and that the cancer risk may be exaggerated...
There's a moving scene in Blind Spot, the debut feature from Slovenian director Hanna A.W. Slak, in which a young woman nurses her brother through heroin withdrawal, cradling his head in her arms and soothing him with stories of their childhood. The room dissolves into a bright memory of them holding hands on a rooftop, the older brother telling his sister to jump, trust him, everything will be O.K. It's a tender moment in a dark, intimate film about courage in the face of hopelessness. Carried by two engaging leads and bold cinematography that soaks every shot...
Munera’s passion to produce a testament of his country stems from childhood. Growing up in the city of Medellín, he showed early talent as a photographer. In 1998 he won the First National Prize of Photography in Colombia, and he has garnered numerous other distinctions despite a national climate politically and economically adverse to artistic endeavor...
...Fernando Meirelles’ high-energy depiction of gang warfare in the titular Rio de Janeiro slum has been met with critical raves, four Oscar nominations, and comparisons to the mob pictures of Martin Scorsese. The protagonist, a young photographer named Rocket, succeeds in evading the gang lifestyle; his childhood friend fails to follow suit, instead succumbing to the temptations of crime and power. Dynamic, darkly funny and spitting electricity, City of God presents a strife-ridden world lurching towards destruction...
Knapp spoke of her sister’s hunger as an “agent of denial” for family love she felt was withheld in childhood, while Harold said her multi-ethnic background led to painful schoolyard taunts...