In the wake of some objectifying news coverage of intersex bodies in Australian, UK and international media, Phoebe Hart of the AISSGA writes an important piece on "My intersex body: more than an object of fascination or repulsion to be ‘fixed’" in the UK Independent newspaper.
"Guess which one of us has testes?" A great introductory video by Interact and Buzzfeed, in the US. It features Emily Quinn, an XY woman; Alice Alvarez; Pidgeon Pagonis, a queer, gender non-conforming intersex person; and Sean Saifa Wall, a black intersex man.
The Feed on SBS interviewed a parent, along with Bonnie Hart, Morgan Carpenter and Shubha Srinivasan, in this great feature presenting two personal stories.
XXXY is a short, 13 minute movie by Porter Gale and Laleh Soomekh, then students at Stanford University Department of Art and Art History, and released in 2000. Watch the full movie can be watched here or via Vimeo.
Intersex, intersex variations, differences of sex development and innate variations of sex characteristics - these are lots of terms! Here's a briefing on our population, including working, Australian and international definitions.
I am a combination of male and female. That is the way that nature made me. And there's nothing wrong
8 Jul 2013
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