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Overview
The word 'intersex' has been all over the news lately, along with mountains of misinformation, false equivalencies, and a large dollop of sheer vitriol.
Read your way into a better understanding of what being intersex actually means and looks like with these ten books.
There's no deadline by which to finish these, so learn at your leisure!
Read your way into a better understanding of what being intersex actually means and looks like with these ten books.
There's no deadline by which to finish these, so learn at your leisure!
Intersex Voices
18 participants (10 books)
Overview
The word 'intersex' has been all over the news lately, along with mountains of misinformation, false equivalencies, and a large dollop of sheer vitriol.
Read your way into a better understanding of what being intersex actually means and looks like with these ten books.
There's no deadline by which to finish these, so learn at your leisure!
Read your way into a better understanding of what being intersex actually means and looks like with these ten books.
There's no deadline by which to finish these, so learn at your leisure!
Challenge Books
4

Confessions of a Teenage Hermaphrodite
Lianne Simon
NB the title of this book is reclaimed own voices, but the word 'hermaphrodite' is generally considered to be offensive by intersex people
6

Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite
Herculine Barbin
NB the title of this book is anachronistic: the word 'hermaphrodite' is an outdated term and is generally considered to be offensive by intersex people
10

Intersex and After
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies #15.2
Laura Briggs, Christopher Peterson, Del LaGrace Volcano, Anna Klosowska, David Kurnick, April M. Herndon, Vernon A. Rosario, Nikki Sullivan, Sarah M. Creighton, Ellen K. Feder, Michael D. Snediker, Katrina Roen, Stacy I. Masias, Julie A. Greenberg, Howard H. Chiang, Jill H. Casio, Alice Domurat Dreger, Elizabeth A. Castelli, Iain Morland