A problem of disorder
This is a piece I wrote for the IAIA section of the OII web site in 2006 Recently, people were asked for feedback on a couple of pamphlets released for guidelines for care of, and advice to parents...
View ArticleTen misconceptions about intersex
Ten Misconceptions about Intersexuality By Curtis E. Hinkle 2008 Founder, Organisation Intersex International 1. Intersex means that a person has both sets of genitalia. (False) This is probably one...
View ArticleMappa Mundi
I tore off the first index finger of my right hand whilst hurtling down hill on a mountain bike years ago. I was in Surrey at the time. Well, I was in a pickle, truth be known. I used to ride hard in...
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RSM & CAH Support Group meeting, May 2014
“The Royal Society of Medicine and the CAH Support Group jointly organised a meeting which took place on Monday 12th May 2014, in London. This is an educational day, bringing together everyone who has...
View ArticleCoffee mornings
Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche I love the smell of ground coffee. It’s my Sunday luxury. I love the smell of it a lot more than I can be bothered to drink it these days....
View ArticleA nomenclatura of life
Or, How we learn about ourselves from the names we are given by others “All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name”. Andre Breton Words fascinate me. Well, that’s not quite accurate....
View ArticleIntersex Visibility
The determined effort to erase intersex embodiment remains a fundamental abuse of people’s human rights, and a denial of a person’s right to live authentically. Intersex is a perfectly valid embodiment...
View ArticleI Am Intersex – Shon Kloses’s Story
Shon Klose was born intersex. This is their story. There are a lot of people out there who are experiencing trauma and mental health issues because of the way they’ve been treated in a pathologised...
View ArticleReflections
I am quite sure every empire that has ever bestrode the world believed it would last forever. They never do. The hubris that informs such sure and certain beliefs hold the seeds that hasten their...
View ArticleMusing on binary essentialism
There’s definitely something stirring in the ether. Claire Ainsworth was first out of the traps with their article in Nature, openly stating that science has known for years that sex is a spectrum, and...
View ArticleMaking Depathologisation a matter of Law
The ripples from Malta’s adoption of legal protections for intersex, trans and gender-queer people continues to resonate. The Maltese GIGESC Act not only defends children’s rights in Malta, including...
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Undeniable Blackness and Impossible Hermaphrodites
A Shared Guest Post by Sean Saifa Wall and Dr Cary Gabriel Costello “In preparing for my talk, “Undeniable Blackness and Impossible Hermaphrodites” at UC Colorado at Colorado Springs next week, I...
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Here be Dragons*
It began long ago in a land far away to the east, the like of which you will not find in the world today. ~ The Hobbit Storytelling is the ancient means by which mankind has always shared...
View ArticleGhost in the Machine
Once you label me, you negate me Søren Kierkegaard We know nothing of Joseph Marzo in life, so it is impossible to know what they would have ever thought of the declaration made after their death that...
View ArticleOn the Turning Away – A Brief Exploration of Medical Ethics
Philip Zimbardo is an American psychologist. He was detailed to investigate the abuses – long denied – committed on prisoners at the Abu Ghraib detention camp. In his report he describes the phenomena...
View ArticleMusing on binary essentialism
There’s definitely something stirring in the ether. Claire Ainsworth was first out of the traps with their article in Nature, openly stating that science has known for years that sex is a spectrum, and...
View ArticleMaking Depathologisation a matter of Law
The ripples from Malta’s adoption of legal protections for intersex, trans and gender-queer people continues to resonate. The Maltese GIGESC Act not only defends children’s rights in Malta, including...
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Undeniable Blackness and Impossible Hermaphrodites
A Shared Guest Post by Sean Saifa Wall and Dr Cary Gabriel Costello “In preparing for my talk, “Undeniable Blackness and Impossible Hermaphrodites” at UC Colorado at Colorado Springs next week, I...
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Here be Dragons*
It began long ago in a land far away to the east, the like of which you will not find in the world today. ~ The Hobbit Storytelling is the ancient means by which mankind has always shared...
View ArticleLazy Sunday Afternoon*
Idly musing on a sunny Sunday afternoon about the current positions shared by clinicians working within intersex medicine, and advocates striving to change those parameters Clinicians – we will talk to...
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