Posts Tagged ‘intersex awareness day’
The Intersex Awareness Day 2016 Did You Know? List
By our E.D. Hida Viloria Today is #IntersexAwarenessDay, celebrated in honor of the first known intersex protest, held at a medical clinic in Boston exactly twenty years ago, on October 26th. Although we’ve made a lot of progress since then, let’s face it: we still need a lot more awareness about intersex people. I mean,…
Read MoreViloria 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 Awareness Day event at UC Davis, Oct. 23rd
OII-USA Director Hida Viloria will be talking about human rights for intersex people at UC Davis’s LGBTQIA Pride Week. Yay for acceptance & awareness!
Read More“Hermaphrodites Exist: Intersex, the ‘I’ in LGBTI” – Presentation by Hida Viloria and Claudia Astorino at Bluestockings, NYC, Oct 27
Tonight at Bluestockings Bookstore, Café, & Activist Center, 172 Allen Street, New York, New York 10002! [Location Map] Most societies still have a hard time openly incorporating intersex people into their culture. This workshop gets real about the resistance to admitting that hermaphrodites (our original, cultural label) exist, why so few of us are out…
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