Our participant Olga starred in a film about intersex people in Russia. Olga talked about her experiences as a parent, relationships with her family and doctors, and acceptance of her intersex variation. The film can be viewed at the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCGlQjajANg
Co-director of the Association of Russian Speaking Intersex People Ilia spoke about the legal problems of intersex people for the Interseks.Ru project.
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
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 …
A member of the Association of Russian Speaking Intersex Felix Neyman gave a lecture “Intersex phenomenon in culture: an excursion into history.” Felix talked about the treatment of intersex people in the ancient world, about the rituals of sacrifice and the perception of intersex people as damned and child prodigies; how attitudes towards intersex changed …
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).
The first exciting acquaintance. In a short video, Alexander covers the main points related to the intersex phenomenon.
