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!
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Raising awareness: being intersex in Mexico
Hana Aoi writes on the experience of living and being intersex in Mexico: from being the subject of medical interventions, to creating change.
My experience as the world’s first openly intersex Mayor
Tony Briffa writes about going public, and becoming the world’s first openly intersex elected official.
Desirability politics: sex and the intersex body
Koomah writes on body empowerment from an intersex escort perspective.
From Santiago de Chile to Washington D.C.
Ale describes his journey from Santiago de Chile to an appearance before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington D.C.
Love, complexity and inter-sectionality
Sean Saifa Wall reflects on growing up Black, queer and intersex.
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.
Intersexy Fat
#IntersexyFat Georgiann Davis writes on the intersectionalities between being intersex and being fat.
How medical discourse dehumanizes intersex people
Medical discourse on intersex voices is an integral part of the management of intersex bodies – Janik Bastien Charlebois.
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.
Language is vital
The way the intersex community has developed and reappropriated language is a beautiful evolution, says Catherine Graffam.
Thinking outside the box
Focusing on what we share in common: boxes and identity, harmful practices, activism and pinkwashing in Australia, by Morgan Carpenter.