LGBTQIA
Viloria quoted in “Intersex ED at the UN”
Our E.D. Hida Viloria is quoted in the fantastic essay, “Intersex ED at the UN,” in The Huffington Post, by ally extraordinaire Charles Radcliffe, of the UN Human Rights Office. The article also links to the UN Free & Equal Campaign’s beautiful new “Intersex Awareness” video, which features a heartwarming scenario of the birth of…
Read More“The Right to Legally Exist”: IAD 2016 Presentation
Wednesday, October 26th, 2016 12:10 pm – 1:15 pm Jerome Greene Hall – Room 646 Columbia Law School 435 W 116th St, New York, New York 10027 The Intersex Campaign for Equality (aka OII-USA) and The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law are pleased to present: “The Right to Legally Exist: An IAD Talk with…
Read MoreIntersex ally, artist Ela Xora featured in Artlyst
Intersex artist Ela Xora’s upcoming October 24th show, “Signs of Intersex People” is featured in Artlyst: The Independent Voice of Contemporary Art. “‘Signs of Intersex People’ is an eye-opening mask and sign centric exhibition that traces the contours of connectivity between the hero to zero social status shift of intersex-bodied people in early Western culture…
Read MoreOUT FRONT to Honor Zzyym as Power Award Winner!
Great cover story about our own Dana Zzyym. Dana was selected as one of the LGBTQIA activists to be honored on October 15th at OUT FRONT’s 2016 Power Gala Awards. The event will be held at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel’s grand ballroom, in conjunction with the Denver Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, and…
Read MoreGLMA Calls for Delay on Medically Unnecessary Surgeries on Intersex Children!
GLMA, Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality, formerly the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association, issued a statement today on care for intersex children (a.k.a. children with differences of sex development) calling for a delay in medically unnecessary surgeries until the child is old enough to decide for themselves what, if anything, they want to do. It…
Read MoreElizabeth Reis’s excellent piece on pronouns in the NYT
In the essay “Pronoun Privilege,” published in Sunday’s New York Times, fantastic scholar and intersex ally Dr. Elizabeth Reis takes a look at the issues involved, from a professor’s perspective, with making people disclose their preferred pronouns to a group of strangers. Reis — who some of you may remember published the essay, “Divergence or disorder?: the politics…
Read MoreWatch Intersex Activist Pidgeon Pagonis on Transparent!!!!
Fabulous News Everyone: Episode 1, Season 3 of award-winning television series #Transparent features #intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis in a scene with Jeffrey Tambor! Pagonis shared that they regret that the discussion of non-consensual surgeries they had filmed didn’t make it in, however, Pidgeon — who is non-binary and uses “they/them/their” pronouns– was able to mention…
Read MoreHappy Bisexual Awareness Week to all!
As #Bisexual Awareness Week 2016 kicks off today, we would like to acknowledge our support and solidarity with the bisexual community. We recognize and acknowledge that many of our partners, spouses and loved ones are bisexual, and that both the bisexual and intersex communities are stigmatized because we challenge binary, heteronormative expectations. Please forward this reading…
Read MoreTeen Vogue Discusses Heteronormativity’s Negative Impact on Interex People
Great Teen Vogue article, “Why Heteronormativity is A Bad Thing”, discusses the negative ways in which heteronormativity impacts intersex people and promotes Intersex Genital Mutilation/IGM (aka nonconsensual “normalizing” surgeries). Please enjoy and share this educational, intersexionality exploring piece.
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