Publications
Dana Zzyym’s Intersex Lawsuit in the NY Times!
Our own Dana Zzyym’s groundbreaking lawsuit for legal gender recognition as an intersex person on their passport made the New York Times today, in an article titled, Intersex person Dana Zzyym denied passport, sues U.S. government. Please read and share widely. :) We thank and commend Dana and their legal representatives at Lambda Legal for…
Read MoreRead Intersex Narratives in New VOICES Issue
We are very pleased to share “Normalizing Interex”, the latest issue of VOICES: Personal Stories from the Pages of NIB. NIB, The Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, published these personal narratives from intersex people, including our own Hida Viloria, last year, and they are now openly accessible to all here in VOICES. The narratives focus on our experiences with…
Read MoreIntersex-ionality: Why Confronting Racism Matters
Our E.D. Hida Viloria has been lobbying, writing, and speaking about the issues of racism, sexism, and interphobia in sporting regulations against intersex athletes since 2009, when black South Africa track star Caster Semenya was banned from competition. Sadly, however, when s/he tried, at an international intersex activism conference, to discuss the fact that women…
Read MoreDavis on Deconstructing Intersex & Trans Medicalization Practices
Congratulations to Georgiann Davis for another fantastic publication (If you haven’t checked out Contesting Intersex yet, you must). We look forward to reading, “Deconstructing Intersex & Trans Medicalization Practices” (co-authored with Jodie Dewey and Erin Murphy), now out in Gender & Society, and thank and applaud Dr. Davis for being a dedicated advocate and a critical, intelligent intersex…
Read MoreGreat 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 MoreE.D. Hida Viloria’s Bibliography
Finally, by request, a complete list of our E.D. Hida Viloria’s published works. Enjoy. :) http://hidaviloria.com/about/articles-essays-other-published-work-by-hida-viloria/
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 MoreIntersex People and The Quest For Justice in The Jurist
In this excellent article, “The Right Not To Be Mutilated: Intersex People and The Quest For Justice,” Arvind Narrain of ARC International outlines the medically unnecessary cosmetic genital surgeries and other medical treatments that intersex infants and minors are subjected to–which we also refer to as Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM), due to its similarities…
Read MoreViloria published in Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics
OII-USA E.D. Hida Viloria’s essay, “Promoting Health and Social Progress by Accepting and Depathologizing Benign Intersex Traits”, has been published in the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics fall issue, which features a Narrative Symposium on Intersex. From the NIB website’s description of the symposium: What are the joys and heartaches faced by people diagnosed intersex? These symposium authors…
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