Premières lignes – le blog de Paul Moreira: Enfants difformes en Somalie

Curtis, 2010-06-13.

JE reviens de Somalie. Mogadiscio est totalement abandonnée. A l’hopital Madina, j’ai vu un médecin irakien, chef de la chirurgie d’urgence, qui a du donner un litre de son propre sang pour sauver un blessé. Pas de banque du sang dans le principal hopital d’un pays en guerre. Et puis, j’ai vu une vague inexpliquée…
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“Nobody’s Slave”, the Story of Elena de Cespedes, an Intersex Woman of the 16th Century, by Agustín Sánchez Vidal

Curtis, 2010-03-20.

“Elena de Céspedes was a hermaphrodite, and mulatto slave, and a character like this is only discovered once in a lifetime.” Agustín Sánchez Vidal came across the true story of a character that any novelist would be inspired by. Elena de Céspedes, who was a hermaphrodite who lived in the sixteenth century, a mulatto persecuted…
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Mutilations or non-consensual “normalization” treatments?

Curtis, 2008-04-12.

We have been asked why OII’s Official Position on Health Care does not mention mutilations. There are many reasons for this. Most intersex activism has been focused on just denouncing surgery (basically feminizing surgery), while insisting on a gender assignment as soon as possible. However, this does not seem to have helped intersex infants and…
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Why we do not use “Disorder of Sex Development”

Curtis, 2007-10-12.

OII delivered one of the first organised English-language responses to the introduction of this terminology (acknowledging also the objections of Milton Diamond at the time, as well as David, Peter and Esther who proofread the Parent’s Handbook, and those of activists from non-English speaking countries at the time, whose work we were not all aware…
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Intergender and intersex

Curtis, 2007-02-09.

Why is the intergender community so important to the intersex community? Often those of us who are intersex who also affirm our intergender identity are marginalized not only by society at large but by the intersex community itself. It is time that we take our rightful place at the table and articulate our own views about…
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Premières lignes – le blog de Paul Moreira: Enfants difformes en Somalie

“Nobody’s Slave”, the Story of Elena de Cespedes, an Intersex Woman of the 16th Century, by Agustín Sánchez Vidal

Mutilations or non-consensual “normalization” treatments?

Why we do not use “Disorder of Sex Development”

Intergender and intersex

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