what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?
would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?
Its kind of ridiculous how difficult it is to find critical intersex literature if you don't know where to look.
That said, here are frequently cited things I've found. For the one's that are behind paywalls, I have a Google Drive folder set up to hold them for access. The only things I leave behind a paywall are books by individual authors. They are not organized at all, I'm sorry.
Intersex Variations Glossary by InterACT
Narrative Symposium: Intersex—Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics (NIB) Volume 5, Number 2, Summer 2015.— Trigger warning for intersex genital mutilation (IGM), sexual assault, and medical trauma—it's honestly a lot but incredibly important. (Drive)
A human rights investigation into the medical "normalization" of intersex people - A report of a public hearing by the Human Rights Commission of the City & County of San Francisco
Surgical Progress Is Not the Answer to Intersexuality - Cheryl Chase. - TW for IGM and images of genitalia (Drive)
The Intersex Roadshow, a blog of Dr. Cary Gabriel Costello - Costello is an intersex trans man and tries to bridge the gap between trans and intersex issues
Beyond Binary Sex and Gender Ideology - Cary Grabriel Costello - Chapter 12 of The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment (Drive)
Transgender and intersex: theoretical, practical, and artistic perspectives (book/textbook) (Drive)
Intersex: Stories and Statistics from Australia (Book) (Open Access)
Fixing sex: intersex, medical authority, and lived experience (Book)
The harms of medicalisation: intersex, loneliness and abandonment (Open Access Article)
Intersex: cultural and social perspectives (Open Access Article)
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Technical Note on the Human Rights of Intersex People. Basically, if you want an easy way to say that doctors are going against human rights by performing IGM.
An experimental philosophical bioethical study of how human rights are applied to clitorectomy on infants identified as female and as intersex (Open Access Article) - People were more likely to support the same surgery on infants labeled as intersex than they were on infants labeled as female.
Caught in the Gender Binary Blind Spot: Intersex Erasure in Cisgender Rhetoric by Hida Viloria - About how cisgender often doesn't accurately express the experiences intersex people have. Costello, mentioned earlier with Intersex Roadshow, coined Ipsogender for this reason.
Introduction for Intersex Activism - A guide for allies
Sex, Science, and Society: Reckonings and Responsibilities for Biologists (Open Access Article)
Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis by Georgiann Davis - TW for medical trauma
Spectacles and Scholarship: Caster Semenya, Intersex Studies, and the Problem of Race in Feminist Theory by Zine Magubane (Drive)
Owning Endosex Privilege and Supporting the Intersex Community: WPATH, Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM), and Sex Variant Bodies by Margo Schulter
The Spectrum of Sex by Hida Viloria and Dr. Maria Nieto
A long way to go for LGBTI equality from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights - Before the UK left the EU
If anyone wants to add, feel free! This was the non-medicalized stuff I had saved in Zotero, and definitely not all that's out there.
Fuckice
#Dystopia
That isn't the first part. The fa t is that several Justices are biased towards Trump, and by that I mean paid off with gifts!
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, right? RIGHT???
Mental Health crisis rages...