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Great Piece on Intersex Activism & Activists in the U.K.!
We give thanks & kudos to the author of this fantastic piece in Diva magazine on the intersex movement in the UK, and to all the intersex activists who represented so eloquently on the issue — great job!
Read MoreOur E.D. at Princeton on Race, Sexuality & Gender Intersex-ionalities
Hida Viloria will be presenting he/r Intersex 101 workshop, “Reimagining the Human Species: Intersex People in Society”, and lecture,” Sex is Complicated: Intersexionality and Intersex Human Rights, Identity and Discourse”, today at Princeton. It’s truly incredible to see how far awareness, and discussions about intersex people’s lives has come, and we are honored to be…
Read MoreChilean officials oppose “normalization” surgery for intersex children!
The Chilean government is urging doctors to stop performing “normalizing” genital surgeries, a.k.a. Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM)! In a “document the Chilean Ministry of Health released last week expressed its opposition to “unnecessary ‘normalization’ treatments of intersex children” that include “irreversible genital surgeries until they are of a sufficient age to make decisions about their…
Read MoreViloria Published in College Textbook by Oxford University Press
IC4E E.D. Hida Viloria’s essay, “What’s in a Name: Intersex and Identity”, was published this month in the college textbook, Queer: A Reader for Writers, by Oxford University Press. The book includes an interdisciplinary mix of public, academic, and cultural reading selections, and was developed for courses in first-year writing. It provides students with the rhetorical knowledge and…
Read MoreHappy 2016 to All!
OII-USA wishes all intersex people, our families, friends, and allies, a very Happy New Year! Happy New Yr oii-usa
Read MoreCelebrate Human Rights Day!
Happy Human Rights Day everyone! December 10th commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. If you want to learn more about Human Rights Day, please explore the preceding U.N. link, or check out this informative piece. Also, be on the lookout for our Right to…
Read MoreSupport intersex people’s right to exist this Giving Tuesday!
Imagine if the U.S. Government finally acknowledged that intersex people exist? Not only would this be critically useful in attaining equality for intersex people, but you can help make it a reality this Giving Tuesday by supporting OII-USA, and our Associate Director Dana Zzyym’s historic lawsuit for recognition of non-binary intersex people! A recent example…
Read MoreRemembering the Intersex Day of Remembrance
November 8th is the Intersex Day of Remembrance, a.k.a. Intersex Solidarity Day, and this year OII-USA celebrated the occasion with a fantastic group of Inter* folks (as we call ourselves in some parts of Europe) and allies in Vienna. :) “Never before have I spent time with such a large, caring, intelligent, fun group of…
Read MoreViloria featured in Buzzfeed piece about intersex activism and the Intersex Fund!
We are honored to be listed with these other fantastic intersex activists and advocacy organizations in this great piece in Buzzfeed about the Intersex Fund, created by Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. All the grant recipients are doing fantastic, invaluable work, and we send big thanks to Buzzfeed for the coverage and to Astraea for…
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