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Sydney Intersex Awareness Day screening of "The Secret of Me"

InterAction, City of Sydney and Queer Screen co-present a special free screening of new documentary "The Secret of Me". Event Cinemas, George St, Sydney, 3pm 26 October
15 Oct 2025
Promo image of The Secret of Me
Education and Schools

December Webinar - Margie McCumstie's "I Am Me... Naturally!"

We're excited to announce the last of our Webinar Series for 2022! Ending the year on a fun note, we have an author talk with Margie McCumstie, talking about her children's book "I am me... Naturally!"
15 Nov 2022
Health and Medical Ethics

My Body/My Choice: Make space to talk about intersex human rights

I’m a WA representative for Intersex Peer Support Australia (IPSA), a national intersex-led charity that provides peer support to people with intersex variations and our families. In my role, I get to meet many other people with intersex variations and parents.
7 Apr 2021
Bold text reading "My Body My Choice"
Film and TV

Graduation Day, a poem by Steph Lum

On 2 May, Steph Lum (editor of the YOUth&I magazine) performed the poem Graduation Day as part of Equality Australia's Queer Love In. The event was an afternoon of performance to support LGBTI artists who have lost income due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
5 May 2020
Steph Lum, performing the poem Graduation Day
Health and Medical Ethics

Steph Lum: panel presentation at Health in Difference

This speech was given in a panel presentation at the National LGBTI Health Alliance conference, Health in Difference, in Sydney, 12 April 2018.
13 Apr 2018
Health in Difference panel presentation
Health and Medical Ethics

Steph Lum: speech to Canberra think tank on LGBTIQ inclusion

Steph Lum gave this speech to the Inclusive Canberra think tank, held by the ACT LGBTIQ Ministerial Advisory Council, on 14 November 2017.
16 Nov 2017
Steph Lum in Geneva, 2018
Personal Comment

Intersex Day project

Promoting human rights actions around Intersex Awareness Day and Intersex Day of Solidarity
21 Oct 2015
Logo of the Intersex Day project: an outlined purple heart on a yellow background
Anti-discrimination

Tony Briffa in the Times of Malta: welcoming Malta's stance on intersex

Tony Briffa has been interviewed by Claudia Calleja of the Times of Malta, while a Gender Identity Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics Bill proceeds through that nation's parliament.
30 Apr 2015
Tony Briffa
Personal Stories

Media reporting: the real intersex scandal

Claudia Astorino in The Guardian: "Intersex people exist, and we’re fighting for our basic human rights. Stop treating us as props and oddities".
24 Nov 2014
Screenshot of news story
Personal Stories

GNN interviews Tony Briffa: a new quest for human rights

Rachel Cook in MCV/Gay News Network interviews Tony Briffa in a great extended review of Tony's life and work, published today.
9 Apr 2014
Tony Briffa in MCV
Ageing

Equal Rights Trust: Testimony by Gina Wilson on rights for intersex people

The UK's Equal Rights Trust has just published testimony by OII Australia president, Gina Wilson, in The Equal Rights Review,
6 May 2014
detail of Equal Rights Trust issue cover
Anti-discrimination

Ten years of 'X' passports, and no protection from discrimination

Read about bodily integrity, and eliminating harmful practices Read about eugenics, prenatal screening and elimination Read about discrimination, and stigma
21 Jan 2019
detail from newspaper report
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