This extraordinary animation by intersex activist and digital artist Dani Coyle depicts the metamorphosis of a sexual organ. Sex 3.0 explores the point in which the spectrum of biological sex becomes too ambiguous to be socially acceptable.

Intersex rights are often brushed under the carpet, even under the broader umbrella of LGBTQIA+ activism. Despite shocking statistics on the prevalence of depression, suicide and violence against the intersex community, the general public is barely aware of the existence of intersex people, let alone the issues the intersex community faces. This erasure, due to stigma and secrecy, reinforces toxic (and false!) cultural belief in binary genders.

Plazenta Baum (placenta tree) is a skillfully processed and preserved placenta that celebrates the miraculous beauty of life-giving and life itself. With her vision of making it resemble a tree, installation and performance artist Ellebasi Gebhardt worked on the uterus organ straight after a close friend’s birth, in order to avoid drying out processes or having to freeze it, which could have easily made the intricate nourishing body break. Carefully tainting its veins and arteries in different colours to show the inner flow to and from the fetus, the piece breathes the divine rhythm of life.