Here's your guide to what's happening for Intersex Awareness in October 2025. We hope you find some events you would like to attend and enjoy the celebrations!
The inaugural Carswell Forum 2025 was held on September 19 in Brisbane aimed at fostering collaboration among community members, activists, and government representatives.
From 15–18 September, QC hosted a transformative week of professional development and community capacity building: Common Ground. InterLink and InterAction representatives attended this conference together with other passionate advocates, community leaders, and health professionals to explore the themes of belonging and justice.
A recording of a 2019 lecture by co-executive director Morgan Carpenter at the Kirby Institute, UNSW, on "medical and legal contradictions on the meaning and needs of intersex people".
On 22 February 2017, co-executive director Morgan Carpenter spoke at an Australian Human Rights Commission RightsTalk, on "Creating Equality – The Role of Law in Protecting SOGII Rights".
On 26 October, Intersex Awareness Day, co-chair Morgan Carpenter gave a talk at UTS entitled "Intersex, thinking outside the box: intersex, identity, harmful practices and 20 years of activism."
Morgan Carpenter was invited to speak on a panel on the international intersex human rights movement, presented at the conference Creating Change in Chicago, USA. Watch the session here.
On Friday, a side event was held at the UN Human Rights Council with intersex human rights defenders from five continents. Morgan Carpenter (OII Australia) moderated a panel featuring Julius Kaggwa (SIPD, Uganda), Hiker Chiu (Oii-Chinese, Taiwan), Kimberly Zieselman (AIC, US) and Dan Ghattas (OII Europe, Germany). The event was very kindly supported by ILGA and COC Netherlands.
Morgan Carpenter spoke on "Intersex bodies and the society that shapes them" at Melbourne's Wheeler Centre.
29 Oct 2015
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