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.
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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.
Understanding intersex stigma in Uganda
Julius Kaggwa describes the need for advocacy, medical and psychological support for intersex people in Uganda, and the work of SIPD Uganda.
Breaking the ice: intersex in Russia
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.
Desirability politics: sex and the intersex body
Koomah writes on body empowerment from an intersex escort perspective.
Love, complexity and inter-sectionality
Sean Saifa Wall reflects on growing up Black, queer and intersex.
Beyond boundaries
Small Luk, the founder of an intersex group in Hong Kong, talks about the intersex movement in Hong Kong and mainland China.
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.
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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.