Resources: Intersex Movement and Community History

Books

• XOXY: A Memoir, by interACT Executive Director Kimberly Zieselman (2020)
• Born Both: An Intersex Life (2017)
• Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis by former interACT Board President Georgiann Davis (2015)
• Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex (2012)
• Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience (2008)
• Intersex (for Lack of a Better Word) (2008)
• Intersex & Identity: The Contested Self (2003)
• Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex (2000)

Podcasts

• Outwords (Interviews with intersex elders 2017-current)

Media and Film

• Every Body (2023)
• Intersex and Faith documentary (2020)
• Intersexion documentary (2012)
• XXY Offers a New View of Life in an Intersex Body (Film review, 2008)
• Hermaphrodites Speak! (1997)

Archives

• ISNA.org archive – hub for all intersex advocacy information pre-2008
• In-person archive maintained by the Houston Intersex Society
• Hormel Center archives at the San Francisco Public Library

Articles, Reports, and Miscellaneous

• Revisiting the limits of professional autonomy: The intersex rights’ movements’ path to de-medicalization (2019)
• Making sense of ‘Intersex’ and ‘DSD’: how laypeople understand and use terminology (2018)
• Astrea Foundation’s Report on The State of Intersex Organizing (2nd Edition) (2017)
• Community Letter of Resignation from the Advocacy Advisory Network of the NIH Translational Research Network (2015)
• Intersex and Intrasex Debates: Building Alliances to Challenge Sex Discrimination (2006)

Featured Resource

Every Body tells the stories of three intersex individuals who have moved from childhoods marked by shame, secrecy, and non-consensual surgeries to thriving adulthoods.