“‘Correction of diversity.’ Medicine against intersex people.”
The co-director and lawyer of the organization, Ilia, gave a brief comment to the Snob portal about the situation with the rights of intersex people in Russia and in the world.
Category «Informing»
Speech at the conference in Moscow
On February 27, 2018, the co-director and lawyer of the organization, Ilia, took part in the Scientific and Practical Conference “Days of Science of the Faculty of Law of the Higher School of Economics – 2018. Modern Technologies and Law”. The participant presented a report on the normalization of the bodies of intersex people as …
Organization of the Italian scientist’s speech at the conference in Moscow
Our organization, in collaboration with colleagues from the LGBTQIA Resource and the Italian organization Intersexioni, organized a presentation by a psychologist, sexologist, and intersex researcher, Dr. Massimo Di Grazia from the Institute for Maternal and Child Health (Burlo Garofolo, Trieste Italy).
Speech at the conference for psychologists
On November 25, 2017, Alexander Berezkin made a video report on the features of the work of a psychologist with intersex at the 1st scientific and practical conference “Invisible People: Psychological Features of Working with Minorities”, organized by the project “Psychology of a Free Human” in St. Petersburg. The co-director and lawyer of the organization, …
“My intersex story”
We present to your attention the first Russian-language collection [RUS] dedicated to the stories of intersex people from our organization from Russia and Kazakhstan. We are grateful to the initiative group “Coming Out” for the compilation, design, layout, publication, and distribution of this collection.
“Not a man or a woman: how does an intersex person live?”
“From the unknown to self-acceptance. Intersex-people stories”, performance at the festival
As part of the QueerFest festival, Olga, an intersex member of the Association of Russian Speaking Intersex People (ARSI), shared her story and answered questions from the audience. “She talked about her life’s path with a smile, joked a lot, and the audience laughed with her. But how much pain was experienced in this story! …
Introductory video by Alexander Berezkin about intersex
The first exciting acquaintance. In a short video, Alexander covers the main points related to the intersex phenomenon.
Participation in the conference “Human Rights and Biomedicine. Informed Consent: Ethical and Legal Aspects”
On June 29-30, Ilia, a lawyer of the Association of Russian Speaking Intersex attended the conference “Human Rights and Biomedicine. Informed Consent: Ethical and Legal Aspects” and the Seminar as part of the preparation of the first HELP course on human rights in biomedicine. The events were organized by the Council of Europe Bioethics Division …