Learning to love myself: Dating, desire and being a visible intersex woman
Crystal talks about dating, disclosure, discrimination and desire as an out and visible intersex woman.
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Being intersex in Juchitán: navigating a different language, culture and reality
Frida Flores on growing up and being different in Juchitán, Oaxaca, a Zapotec city in Mexico.
Intersex activism in Argentine-Mapuche Territory
Pauli Sosa is co-founder and co-coordinator of Potencia Intersex. A biology teacher and human rights activist, Pauli talks about intersex activism in Argentine-Mapuche territory.
My experience and the struggle for the rights of intersex people in Chile
Patricia Ahumada, filmmaker and activist, talks about intersex activism in Chile, and the fragility of reform by government circular.
Living with an intersex variation in a country in crisis
Izan talks about living with an intersex variation in Venezuela, a country experiencing multiple crises.
Migrating to find myself
Bea of Perú Intersex talks about needing to migrate to find herself, finding support and a place to thrive in Argentina.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
