Posts Tagged ‘LGBTQI’
OPEN CALL: let the US gov’t know your needs as an intersex person
The U.S. National Intstitute of Health (NIH) has put out “Request for Information (RFI): Inviting Comments and Suggestions on the Health and Health Research Needs, Specific Health Issues and Concerns for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) Populations.” This is a chance to have your voice heard, and all responses will be anonymous. Please…
Read MoreDavid Kato remembered by Nigerian LGBTI activist Sokari Ekine
UGANDAN LGBTI human rights activist David Kato was brutally murdered just over a year ago and fellow African LGBTI activist Sokari Ekine writes a letter to the man who was so beloved and continues to be remembered by many. In the face of the widespread exclusion of intersex people from human rights reforms in the so-called global north, it is…
Read MoreCardiff’s LGBT short film award the Iris Prize is also open to intersex filmmakers
DESPITE its intersex-excluding LGBT acronym, the Iris Prize for short films is also open to intersex filmmakers and is valued at £25,000. May we suggest to the Prize organizers that they signal their apparent intersex inclusion loud and clear by using the intersex-inclusive LGBTI acronym? You know it makes sense and it will help attract more…
Read MoreNew San Francisco Bay Area intersex digital magazine is calling for submissions
A collective of intersex, genderqueer and trans people of colour – POC – in the Oakland and Berkeley area of northern California is calling for submissions from intersex people for a new digital ‘zine named sex: unknown. The submissions deadline is April 1, 2012. As intersex people, we often feel alienated from queer and trans…
Read MoreLady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation. Intersex-inclusive? Time will tell.
SHE has never definitively answered the commonly-asked question of whether she is an “hermaphrodite” or not – her questioners meant intersex of course. Frankly, we don’t care if she is or isn’t. She has, however, sent no signals that her LGBT human rights project Born This Way Foundation – BTWF – is actually intersex-inclusive and thus…
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