Thinking outside the box
Focusing on what we share in common: boxes and identity, harmful practices, activism and pinkwashing in Australia, by Morgan Carpenter.
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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.
Love, complexity and inter-sectionality
Sean Saifa Wall reflects on growing up Black, queer and intersex.
I want a language that speaks the truth
Memories and remembrances of an intersex survivor in the UK, by Leslie Jaye.
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!
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.
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.
Starry, Starry Night: the short life of Herculine Barbin
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.
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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.