Intersex 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 MoreIntersex: Celebrating the Beauty in Difference
The world is finally getting the message about intersex people, as demonstrated by the beautiful title of this wonderfully thorough piece! :) Features interviews with African American intersex artist and activist Sean Safia Wall and many more.
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 MoreIntersex Californian becomes 2nd US citizen to attain nonbinary gender recognition!
Yesterday, in a Santa Cruz California courtroom, Sara Kelly Keenan became the second U.S. citizen—and the first California resident—to legally change her gender from female to “non-binary.” Keenan, a retired paralegal, was inspired to petition the court for a gender change to “nonbinary” by Jamie Shupe’s similar victory in Oregon this past June. We…
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 MoreViloria Speaking at Stanford’s World Sexual Health Day
ICE E.D. Hida Viloria will be speaking at World Sexual Health Day 2016, “Eliminating The Myths“, on September 29, 2016. We are honored to be included in the list of esteemed speakers, and we thank hosts, Stanford’s Weiland Health Initiative, for putting together what promises to be an enlightening, entertaining event. Doors open at 5:30 and…
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