The origins of Intersex Awareness Day
Betsy Driver: the first Intersex Awareness Day took place in 2004. It was two people and an email exchange.
Betsy Driver: the first Intersex Awareness Day took place in 2004. It was two people and an email exchange.
Focusing on what we share in common: boxes and identity, harmful practices, activism and pinkwashing in Australia, by Morgan Carpenter.
Morgan Holmes writes on when she and Max Beck went to Boston and put adult faces on intersex cases.
Esan Regmi describes his early life, and his activism and organising in Nepal, including the first national intersex meeting.
The way the intersex community has developed and reappropriated language is a beautiful evolution, says Catherine Graffam.
Tony Briffa writes about going public, and becoming the world’s first openly intersex elected official.
Sean Saifa Wall reflects on growing up Black, queer and intersex.
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.
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.