#MyIntersexStory
Personal accounts of intersex people living in Europe
Join us in creating more visibility of the lived experiences of intersex people by sharing your OWN story with the hashtag #MyIntersexStory during Intersex Awareness Weeks (Oct 26 – Nov 8)
Illustrations by Ins A Kromminga
T-shirt slogan inspired by the #PositivelyIntersex project and the onepointseven project https://onepointseven.org.uk/ by Magda Rakita
Medical Report:
Read this testimonial on page 11
Am I not “intersex Enough”?
Read this testimonial on page 21
They told my parents that I was a boy that needed to be “perfected”
Read this testimonial on page 41
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“I as a parent made choices that should not have been mine to make”
Read this and other testimonials in our new publication with 14+ personal accounts of intersex people and parents in Europe. The brochure / book includes a text by intersex scholar Janik Bastien-Charlebois “On our own terms and in our own words”: The value of first person accounts of intersex experience
Why are personal stories by intersex people important?
First person accounts given by intersex people and parents show that up to this day the human rights of intersex people are being violated throughout Europe.
Learn more about the issues intersex people face by reading their first person accounts
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check out this video
This video was created during OII Europe’s Second Intersex Community Event and Conference in Copenhagen in February 2018.
Text by Mathilde and other participants of the Community Event.
Narrated by Mathilde
Filmed and edited by Irene Kuzemko
Intersex 101 •
Some intersex basic facts
Let intersex people explain what intersex means. This video was created during two visits of intersex activists in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Thanks to the Inter*Coalition Ljubljana!
Camera: Lea Aymard, Julijen Mekuč
Editing: Lea Aymard
Thanks to: Linn Julian Koletnik, Tova Per Peterka, Evan Grm Coproduction TransAkcija
With: Erin Vlahović – Trans Aid, Croatia; Kitty Anderson, Kristian Ranđelović, Pol Naidenov and Luan Pertl – OII Europe.
To learn more about intersex realities, you can check out our publications and toolkits in several European languages here:
Intervisibility in Europe
Please visit our multilingual community website with growing content in over 28 languages!
A campaign by OII Europe © 2019 / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0