YOUth&I issue 3: connection

In YOUth & I, intersex youth tell their own stories, how they want to and in their own way. YOUth & I is an Australian publication created and edited by Steph Lum, and auspiced by IHRA.

Issue 3 has the theme "connection". It was launched on 19 December 2022.

We live in societies that are still so far from understanding what it means to have a variation in sex characteristics, let alone accept and celebrate our variations. In this isolation and uncertainty, what does it mean for us to live with and love our bodies and ourselves? How do we even begin to find and connect with other people when we are often disconnected from the language to even know other people like us exist, and when we are often told (explicitly or implicitly) never to talk about our own experiences? In Issue 3, we explore what finding and making connection means for us—both (dis)connection with ourselves, and finding connection with families, friends and an intersex community. -- Steph Lum and Georgia Andrews, YOUth&I Issue 3 foreword

Read issue 3 and download a PDF for free, or buy a print copy, all on the YOUth&I website.

Watch the launch event here:

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