ARSI co-directors Alli and Ilia, together with colleagues, discussed the new legislation to restrict gender transition in Russia and its negative consequences for intersex people. Thanks to Joanna Kozlowska and the Thomson Reuters Foundation (Openly) for bringing attention to this important issue. The article is available here.
The co-director of the organization Ilia Savelev gave an expert comment for Afisha.Daily media on legal gender recognition procedure for intersex people in Russia. The article can be read here.
Ally, co-director of the Association of Russian Speaking Intersex, took part in the “Petya Pro: Intersex” program. At the show, together with other intersex people and helping professionals, he spoke about the needs of intersex people and the directions of intersex activism. The video can be viewed at the link: https://youtu.be/fmdxfc51S0g?t=1680
Our co-director Ilia commented on human rights violations of intersex people in an article at the AIDS.Center web-portal.
One of the big problems with the intersex movement is the sensationalization and objectification of intersex people’s stories. The story of our intersex participant Olga, published in the collection of the Queerfest 2017 festival “My intersex story” was posted in the public domain without attribution on the site http://veteran.spb.ru. Our lawyer Julia turned to the …
The Parni Plus portal, in collaboration with the Association of Russian Speaking Intersex, has released basic information material about intersex people for a wide audience. Picture (с) Parni Plus
October 26, on Intersex People Awareness Day the web-portal Illuminator publishes a series of video interviews “My child is intersex.” In short commercials, experts of the Association of Russian Speaking Intersex answer the basic questions related to intersex variations, “normalizing” operations, raising and supporting children whose gender characteristics do not correspond to the medical definitions …
