Intersex Initiative: News - Intersex Booklets Available from Intersex Initiative

Intersex Booklets Available from Intersex Initiative

ipdxWIRE Intersex News
Nov 17, 2003

Intersex Initiative Portland (ipdx) announces the availability of educational booklets designed for activists, allies, college instructors, and others. These booklets have been distributed at Creating Change conference earlier this month, and are now available for download or purchase online (the download version comes in PDF, which can be viewed in its entirety--but cannot be printed) from Confluere Store. Here are the titles and tables of contents:

Introduction to Intersex Activism: A Guide for Allies (2nd Edition)

Updated and expanded edition of the booklet previously distributed by Intersex Society of North America (ISNA). General educational materials for people who are interested in becoming an intersex activist or ally.

Introduction

Part One: Intersex Basics
- Medical Abuse of Intersex Children and Child Sexual Abuse (Emi Koyama)
- Frequently Asked Questions about Intersex Activism & Intersexuality (IPDX)
- Shifting the Paradigm of Intersex Treatment (Alice Dreger, ISNA)
- Resource for Further Learning

Part Two: Speaking Out As An Ally
- Being Accountable to an Invisible Community (Emi Koyama)
- Why I am Speaking About Intersex Issues (Tara Medve)
- Tips for Non-Intersex People Speaking About Intersex (Tara Medve)

Part Three: Additional Readings for Building Alliances
- Interrogating the Politics of Commonality: Building a Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Alliance (Emi Koyama)
- What is Wrong with "Male, Female, Intersex" (Emi Koyama)
- Adding the "I": Intersex in the LGBT Movement (Emi Koyama)

Appendices
- Getting Involved
- Ordering Materials from Intersex Initiative

Teaching Intersex Issues: A Guide for Teachers in Women's, Gender & Queer Studies (2nd Edition)

Updated and expanded edition of the booklet previously distributed by Intersex Society of North America (ISNA). Designed for teachers in Women's Studies and related subjects.

Introduction

Part One: Analysis
- From Social Construction to Social Justice: Transforming How We Teach About Intersexuality (Emi Koyama & Lisa Weasel)

Part Two: Intersex Basics
- Medical Abuse of Intersex Children and Child Sexual Abuse (Emi Koyama)
- Frequently Asked Questions about Intersex Activism & Intersexuality (IPDX)

Part Three: Sample Course Unit
- A Curriculum Unit on the Politics and Practice of Contemporary Intersex Issues (Lisa Weasel)

Part Four: Teaching Intersex Studies
- A Sample Syllabus for "Intersexuality: An Interdisciplinary Exploration" (Emi Koyama)

Part Five: Suggested Resources
- Intersex Bibliography for Women's/Gender/Queer Studies (Emi Koyama)

Appendices
- Shifting the Paradigm of Intersex Treatment (Alice Dreger, ISNA)
- Suggested Guidelines for Non-Intersex Individuals Writing About Intersexuality & Intersex People (Emi Koyama)
- Medical Facts (IPDX)

A Speaker's Handbook for Intersex Activists and Allies

Originally designed for the Speaker's Bureau of Intersex Initiative.

Introduction
- Welcome from the Director (Emi Koyama)
- What is Intersex Initiative Portland?
- Speaking as Survival / Survival as Speaking (Emi Koyama)
- Why I am Speaking About Intersex Issues (Tara Medve)

Chapter One: Speaking for Social Change
- Speech as Non-Violence
- LARA Method of Non-Violent Response
- Speaking Techniques

Chapter Two: Intersex Activism Basics
- Medical Abuse of Intersex Children and Child Sexual Abuse (Emi Koyama)
- Frequently Asked Questions about Intersex Activism & Intersexuality (IPDX)

Chapter Three: Speaking About Intersex
- Talking Points for ipdx Speakers
- Sample Presentation Outline
- What If... Situations
- Tips for Non-Intersex People Speaking About Intersex (Tara Medve)

Chapter Four: Speaking for ipdx
- About Intersex Initiative Portland's Speaker's Bureau
- Expectations for Speakers on ipdx Speaker's Bureau
- Soliciting for Speaking Engagements

Appendices
- Resources for Further Learning
- Shifting the Paradigm of Intersex Treatment (Alice Dreger, ISNA)
- Medical Facts

IntersexCritiques: Notes on Intersex, Disability and Biomedical Ethics

- A Letter to Intersex Society of North America
- Statement on ISNA/BDRC Research Collaboration
- What's Wrong with "Male, Female, Intersex": A Letter to Outside In
- Writing Our Own Monologues
- Eugenides Wins Pulitzer for Middlesex
- The Onion Parody Almost Realistic for Intersex Kids
- Intersex Info Censored at Public Libraries?
- Oregon Begins Mandatory Screening for CAH
- Double Standard and Eugenic Impluse in the Embryonic Research Debate
- Early Detection of Swyer's: How Will the Information be Used?
- Conjoined Twin "Tragedy": Was Ladan Bijani Murdered?
- Doctors Receive $1.2 mil to Study "What's Wrong With Intersex"
- FDA Approves Injecting Growth Hormone for Healthy, Short Children
- Letter to Daily Illini: Non-Discrimination Policy Is Not Enough for Intersex
- Letter to The New York Review of Books
- About Intersex Initiative / About Emi Koyama

IntersexCritiques Volume II: Medicine, Media and Intersex Movement

- Being Accountable to the Invisible Community
- Associated Press Misuses the Word "Hermaphrodite"
- Intersex Births Almost As Bad As Prenatal Death?
- Journal Acknowledges the Impact of Intersex Activism
- Japanese Manga Depicts Intersex Experiences
- Informed Consent and Clash Over Cultural Values
- Intersex People as "Saviours of Humankind"?
- Reuters Study About Post-Vaginoplasty Sexual Function is Misleading
- Prenatal Diagnosis of Mixed Gonadal Dysgenesis
- Washington times is Confused About What We Are Criticizing
- Transgender Medicine Experts Show Some Interest in Intersex
- SUNY Sexologist Defends John Money, Attacks ISNA
- UCLA "Brain Sex" Report Baseless and Irresponsible
- Medicine Regulates More Than Just Gender System

To download or order these booklets, please visit:
<http://www.confluere.com/store/zine-intersex.html>

Posted by Emi on Nov 17, 2003