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YOUth&I issue 4: grow

YOUth&I is an intersex youth anthology that shares the stories and experiences of young intersex people. This issue’s theme, Grow, captures the idea of learning and change.
18 Nov 2024
YOUth&I issue 4 cover
Anti-discrimination

IDAHOBIT Day 2023

Our statement on this day in 2023.
17 May 2023
Community

YOUth&I issue 3: connection

YOUth&I is an intersex youth anthology. "In Issue 3, we explore what finding and making connection means for us."
19 Dec 2022
YOUth&I issue 3 cover
Books

Unspoken: A collection of untold intersex stories

Unspoken is a collection of memories from intersex people in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand, recorded across two Intersex Peer Support Australia retreats in 2017.
6 Sep 2025
The front cover of Unspoken
Anti-discrimination

IDAHOBIT Day 2022

A short reflection on the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia and what it means to people with innate variations of sex characteristics in 2022.
17 May 2022
Anti-discrimination

Statement on 10 News reporting on intersex women in sport

Caster Semenya, born a woman, raised a woman, who has demonstrated nothing but hard-earned excellence in her field is harmed by irresponsible reporting.
29 Apr 2022
IHRA logotype
Books

Writing an intersex character

Hans Lindahl, formerly of interACT, presents here one of best discussions about how to write intersex characters in fiction. We highly commend this video, and other work by Hans.
20 Sep 2021
Hans Lindahl on writing intersex characters
Books

YOUth & I intersex youth publication: issue 1

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 - download a free copy.
31 Oct 2019
YOUth & I publication, on a wooden table, accompanied by a cup of coffee
Personal Comment

Tony Briffa: Conversion therapy organisation welcomed at Melbourne's Midsumma Pride March

Imagine being a proud member of the LGBTI community, and a survivor of childhood and adolescent conversion therapies, and seeing the organisation that abused you and tried to make you fit heteronormative stereotypes welcomed into the Melbourne Pride March. With no apology, and no evidence of change to their practices.
25 Jan 2019
Tony Briffa
Books

Steph Lum: "Intersex self-love"

Steph Lum has won a prize for the poem "Intersex self-love", in the Canberra SpringOut essay competition. Congratulations, Steph! Here's the poem in its entirety.
17 Jan 2019
Steph Lum, photo by Georgia Andrews. Glasses by Irene Kuzemko
Health and Medical Ethics

Morgan Carpenter: "Clinical self-regulation has failed"

On invitation, Morgan Carpenter has written a post for the journal Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters.
19 Jan 2020
Reproductive Health Matters Journal: "Intersex human rights: clinical self-regulation has failed"
Anti-discrimination

Tony Briffa: "The Hippocratic Oath, Western Medicine, and the Children of Hermes and Aphrodite"

Co-executive director Tony Briffa writes on being intersex and Maltese Australian in the book Living and Loving in Diversity: An anthology of Australian, in a new anthology, with an extract in Archer Magazine.
30 Sep 2018
Hippocrates - statue
Acknowledgement of Country
Our Australian staff and board live and work on First Nations lands. We recognise that sovereignty over this land was never ceded and that this always was and always will be Aboriginal land. We acknowledge the continued connection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to land, waterways and community and pay our respects to all First Nations people.
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