Obadiah beautifully pictures Edom as intersex: dwelling in the clefts of the rock (3), rising like an eagle and nesting among the stars (4). Yet it is answered only with female IGM: robbed by thieves and grape-pickers (5–6), wisdom erased and the mighty undone and slain (8–9). #haftara #StopIGM 1/2

In the second half of Hosea 12 the Jacob story prefigures the Exodus.
Laban is the corrupted Ephraim: Under Canaanite rule, which equals Egypt, bulls are “sacrificed” — in the form of female intersex genital mutilation; thus Leah and Rachel emerge of that order. #StopIGM #Haftara 1/2

Sing, O heavens and lower parts and mountains and forest, and every tree in it 44.23, is the praise of adult intersex pubic. So, for #Isaiah, intersex mutilation is an idolatry 9-17. And Abraham of all people is said to have sinned with it 43.27? Difficult to understand 44.18. #haftara

Solomon’s Song also speaks of columns. Solomon had made them for his palanquin. Not brazen, but silver, because they belong to the description of his pubic area. The golden ceiling hides the seam, the pillows the gonads as pillars. #Haftara #stopIGM

Israel's punishment in Jeremiah 46:28 refers to having served false gods. The false service is intersex mutilation, first under Pharaoh (female IGM) and then under Nebuchadnezzar (male IGM).
#stopIGM #haftara

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