…there was an Intersex Queer (47xxy) person from the South of Siberia (Russia), and his/their name was Alexander Berezkin. Their forced migration experience started in 2014 when they had to move to the USA and seek political asylum in a new country. In the US, Alexander got invaluable diverse professional and educational experience, struggling with life challenges, going through the dark night of the soul, and making their dreams come true.

Achievements & Academic Training

After my forced immigration to NYC in 2014, I collaborated as Intersex Consultant with the U.N. program "Free and Equal". I got M.S. in Nonprofit Management at The New School (NYC) in 2021 and published stories, "Flies" about Refugees in the online journal "The Pocket Samovar". In 2023, I coordinated Eurasian LGBTQI+ Immigrants in the Bay Area at the San Francisco LGBT Center to support Russian Speaking LGBTQI Asylum Seekers in their new life in California.

As a Doctoral Student in the East-West Psychology program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, I am writing a dissertation, “Exploring the Embodied Psyche: A Micro-Phenomenological Study of Intersex/VSC and Endosex Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the United States.” Besides it, I made several presentations on Queer Psychology and Migrants Studies at different academic conferences in the USA and Europe.

Certificates

Also, I had training in Dreams Interpretation (including a university course at CIIS), Queering Psychoanalysis, working with Metaphoric Associative Cards, and Archetypal Analysis of Fairy Tales, and I have Professional Memberships in The Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies (JSSS), Psychoanalytic Institute of North California (PINC); Division of Society for Humanistic Psychology (32), American Psychological Association (APA); Division of Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity (44), American Psychological Association (APA).