I want a language that speaks the truth
Memories and remembrances of an intersex survivor in the UK, by Leslie Jaye.
Memories and remembrances of an intersex survivor in the UK, by Leslie Jaye.
What little we know of Herculine Barbin has all but obscured the person, writes Leslie Jaye. Her birthday is now marked as Intersex Day of Solidarity.
Medical discourse on intersex voices is an integral part of the management of intersex bodies – Janik Bastien Charlebois.
Tony Briffa writes about going public, and becoming the world’s first openly intersex elected official.
Nthabiseng Mokoena writes about Sally Gross, the NGO Industrial Complex, and being an intersex activist in South Africa.
Aleksander Berezkin on how intersex people have shifted from being imperial curiosities to people with disabilities, and on creating new, non-pathologising ways of being intersex.
Morgan Holmes writes on when she and Max Beck went to Boston and put adult faces on intersex cases.
#IntersexyFat Georgiann Davis writes on the intersectionalities between being intersex and being fat.
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has published an essential new background note on human rights violations against intersex people.
What can you do to mark Intersex Awareness Day or Intersex Day of Solidarity, and promote human rights for intersex people?
Statement of the first Latin American and Caribbean conference of intersex persons, 2018, in San José, Costa Rica.
Statement of the First Asian Intersex Forum, 8 to 11 February 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Statement of the First African Intersex Meeting, that took place between 24 and 26 November 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Statement of the first European intersex community event, in Vienna on 30–31 March 2017.
A joint consensus statement for Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand, published 10 March 2017.
The statement of the Third International Intersex Forum, December 2013.