J’Accuse

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A personal reflection written for Intersex Awareness Day and Intersex Day of Solidarity   Once upon a while ago, how long ago I will not say here, I was born into a world that refused to accept that being intersex was valid, or acceptable. Instead my existence was cloaked in suffocating silence, to be spoken…
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Beyond Boundaries – Intersex in Hong Kong and China

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Beyond Boundaries – Intersex in Hong Kong and China

Small Luk, is the founder of an intersex group in Hong Kong, and talks here about the intersex movement in Hong Kong and mainland China. A personal essay written for Intersex Awareness Day.   ‘I am Small Luk, an intersex activist from Hong Kong, and the founder of a project called BBKCI “Beyond the Boundary…
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When Max Beck and Morgan Holmes went to Boston

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When Max Beck and Morgan Holmes went to Boston

    The tumultuous events that gave it’s name to Intersex Awareness Day – commemorated every year on 26th October The narrative of how two intersex activists travelled to Boston, to protest to the American Academy of Pediatrics, and in doing so helped initiate the present-day intersex advocacy/activist movement. A story told by Morgan Holmes, the…
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

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The origins of Intersex Awareness Day Intersex advocates and activists today are able to do what we do because of the extraordinary courage of some intersex activists in demonstrating against the American Academy of Pediatrics, and making the abuse of  intersex people at the hands of clinical authority public for the first time. The story…
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We Should Not Be Teaching Prejudice

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We Should Not Be Teaching Prejudice

A clear and concise article by Icelandic Intersex activist, Kitty Anderson about how negative language continues to influence people’s misunderstandings about what it is to be intersex Writing for Gay Iceland, Kitty clearly illustrates the negative language about intersex embodiment still being employed in the teaching material still being used in Icelandic schools.  Whilst specific…
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The BBC Series – Countdown to Life: the Extraordinary Making of You – official complaint CAS-3492261-DLFVBV

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Series producer chose to erase any reference to intersex in a programme that led with a feature about the Guavedoches of the Dominican Republic On the 21st September the BBC led a high profile, resource-rich series with a package about the Guevedoches of the Dominican Republic.  The pre-publicity in the press was unavoidable, and quickly…
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