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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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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    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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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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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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