Love, complexity and inter-sectionality
Sean Saifa Wall reflects on growing up Black, queer and intersex.
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Intersex activism in Turkey
Şerife and Belgin talk with Kaos-GL about the situation of intersex people in Turkey, bodily interventions without consent and the influences of these on activism.
When Max Beck and Morgan Holmes went to Boston
Morgan Holmes writes on when she and Max Beck went to Boston and put adult faces on intersex cases.
The situation of the intersex community in Mexico
Laura Inter on the situation facing intersex people in Mexico: similar problems with local quirks.
Do I regret being born intersex?
Irene of Intersex Russia says: sometimes people ask me, do I regret that I was born intersex? And the answer is no, I don’t regret the fact that I was born intersex!
The marks on our bodies
Mauro Cabral Grinspan draws a line between the marks on his flesh and the words that clinicians use to define and treat intersex bodies.
Thinking outside the box
Focusing on what we share in common: boxes and identity, harmful practices, activism and pinkwashing in Australia, by Morgan Carpenter.
How medical discourse dehumanizes intersex people
Medical discourse on intersex voices is an integral part of the management of intersex bodies – Janik Bastien Charlebois.
Reference
Working paper by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has published an essential new background note on human rights violations against intersex people.
Get involved
What can you do to mark Intersex Awareness Day or Intersex Day of Solidarity, and promote human rights for intersex people?
Statement of San José de Costa Rica
Statement of the first Latin American and Caribbean conference of intersex persons, 2018, in San José, Costa Rica.
Statement of Intersex Asia and Asian intersex forum
Statement of the First Asian Intersex Forum, 8 to 11 February 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Public statement by the African intersex movement, 2017
Statement of the First African Intersex Meeting, that took place between 24 and 26 November 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Vienna Statement
Statement of the first European intersex community event, in Vienna on 30–31 March 2017.
Darlington Statement
A joint consensus statement for Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand, published 10 March 2017.
Malta Declaration
The statement of the Third International Intersex Forum, December 2013.