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Anti-discrimination

Ian Purcell Oration 2025: Honouring a Legacy, Advancing Equality

This year’s Ian Purcell Oration was delivered by Anna Brown OAM, a leading voice for equality and justice.
19 Nov 2025
Flyer for event and photo of Anna Brown OAM. Flyer has logos for SARAA Rainbow Alliance, Equality Australia and Feast Festival at top. Text reads: Ian Purcell Annual Oration. Carrying on the legacy of the "Godfather of the Gay Community". Join Anna Brown OAM (Founder and CEO of Equality Australia) and Varo (CEO, SARAA) to chat about critical issues affecting South Australia's LBBTIQA+ community and help us remember our communities history. Sunday November 2nd 2:00- 4:00pm Allan Scott Auditoriu,. Hawk Building, UniSA City West 2025 Speaker Anna Brown OAM Photo of Anna Brown OAm- a young pale skinned woman with short brown hair, wearing a dark blouse. Anna is smiling. Photo from event- Anna Brown OAM sits in a chair and holds a microphone. She is wearing glasses and a blue blouse and black trousers. She has a silver wristwatch on.
Community

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 events in 2017. Download for free/buy a paperback.
14 Apr 2026
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"
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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