Remembering Sally, and the intersex movement in South Africa
Nthabiseng Mokoena writes about Sally Gross, the NGO Industrial Complex, and being an intersex activist in South Africa.
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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.
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.
The situation of the intersex community in Mexico
Laura Inter on the situation facing intersex people in Mexico: similar problems with local quirks.
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.
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.
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.
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.