By Apollo Robert International Men's Day has been celebrated on November 19th for 25 years, and its purpose is to highlight the issues impacting men such as promoting positive role models, health, well-being, and healthy gender relations. Every year, there is a specific theme highlighted for particular emphasis. For 2024, one of several
At the first ever public intersex rights demonstration in 1996, intersex activists Max Beck and Morgan Holmes were joined by their allies outside the American Academy of Pediatrics annual conference in Boston to demand an end to nonconsensual, non-emergent surgeries on intersex children. This 1996 protest, along with the then-emerging intersex rights movement, represented
Courtney Felle (they/them) is a 2024 interACT Youth Cohort Member and a current PhD Student in Disability Studies and Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy at the Ohio State University. They are passionate about disability theory, creative writing, fiber arts, and bad reality TV—and constantly angry about diagnostic injustice. Find them on Instagram via @courtneyfelle.
Apollo grew up with a variation in sex traits typically associated with women — MRKH — but knew he was a man. At times, his intersex variation was a relief. At others, being one of the only men with MRKH was profoundly isolating. But MRKH is a part of him, and he loves it.
Intersex Pride Parade in London, from Dani Coyle Emma Nutt (she/her) is an interACT youth cohort member living with xx/xy intersex chimerism. She is interested in linguistics and biology, taking a personal interest in entomology more specifically. In her spare time she enjoys making art and having fun by messing around with vocaloids.
The “worst anti-trans bill in the nation” is not only that. Emory Hufbauer is a University of Kentucky graduate and a former high school teacher from Louisville, Kentucky. They work as a research programmer at a biology lab, and their pronouns are they/them. Last year my state, like many in the
Liat Feller, age 3 INTRODUCTION I always knew I was queer, and I’ve been “out” since I was sixteen, but I didn’t know that I was intersex until my early twenties. My first intersex traits appeared as early as age eight. By thirteen, I was well accustomed to invasive exams, procedures, and
By Kristin Keller, RN, BSN (Note: This article contains discussion of medical abuse and sexual abuse.) Kristin attends Alicia Roth Weigel's book release event for Inverse Cowgirl moderated by JVN. I worked as a nurse for over a decade—but it was only about two years ago that I fully understood the meaning
One advocate's guide to better healthcare treatment. Sam Sharpe Intersex people have all of the same health care needs as non-intersex people, as well as some specific intersex care needs. However, due to the ongoing erasure and stigma of bodies like mine that don’t conform to the sex and gender binary, getting
If I was competing in high school or college athletics today, I would have much more to worry about than just being teased for looking different.
