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ipdxWIRE 01/24/03: ipdx Featured in Portland LGBT Newspaper
## ipdxwire: 01/24/2003
This is a message from Intersex Initiative Portland (ipdx). Please feel free to forward to your friends--and do encourage them to sign up themselves at http://www.ipdx.org/ The instruction for unsubscribing is found at the bottom.
1) ipdx in Just Out!
As some of you may have already noticed, ipdx is featured in the cover story about intersex activism in Just Out, a Portland, Oregon area bimonthly newspaper for the LGBT community. The 3,000-word article, authored by Gary Morris, was pretty good and we are very happy with it. We'll post the article on our web site when we get around to it, but please do pick up your own hard copy if you live in the Portland area.
2) We have two volunteers! Woo hoo!
Please welcome two of our very first volunteers, Paige and Tara. Paige is a student at Portland Community College and is setting up ipdx's presentations at PCC; Tara, a former GenderPAC intern, is helping us contact all V-DAY chapters in Oregon to become inclusive of intersex. Oh wait, actually, ipdx founder Emi isn't getting paid so technically she's a volunteer too... Anyway, we could use more volunteers--if you see any potentials, do send them our way!
3) ipdx + ISNA kick off V-DAY 2003 Campaign
V-DAY is an enormously successful international movement to end violence against women and girls, which uses founder Eve Ensler's play, "The Vagina Monologues" as its cornerstone. Held at hundreds of universities across the country around February, these V-DAY productions of "The Vagina Monologues" raise awareness about violence as well as millions of dollars for local organizations combating the violence against women and girls. We are working with V-DAY chapters from around the country to take advantage of V-DAY events as opportunities to raise awareness of intersex experiences and to make connections between the movement against intersex medical abuse and other movements against sexually traumatic violence.
To that end, ipdx and Intersex Society of North America kicked off the "Intersex Resources for V-DAY Organizers" web site, which explains why it is essential to include intersex in V-DAY productions, and how to do so. The site also contains lots of materials V-DAY organizers can download and share with their community. For more information, please visit:
http://www.ipdx.org/vday2003
4) Emi @ Against Patriarchy conference, January 26
Emi will be doing a presentation titled "Intersex Movement 1993-2003: the Second Decade" at the Against Patriarchy conference, which is held this weekend in Eugene, Oregon. The intersex presentation will be at 11:45am on Sunday, January 26 at "Education Building room 152" (wherever that is)--but do check out other workshops as well! Plus, Emi will be hosting the Sex & Gender Open Mic at 9pm that day! For more information about the conference, visit:
http://www.againstpatriarchy.org/
5) Future Plans
02/12 - Emi presents at Edmonds Community College (near Seattle)
02/15 - Emi presents at Ohio State University
04/?? - Intersex Film Festival 2003 Portland, PSU and PCC
05/?? - Spoken-word event in which "poets complicate the transgender"
06/?? - "Intersex Studies" Course at Portland State University
10/?? - Sex & Gender Spoken-Word West Coast Tour
Any questions or comments? Email info@ipdx.org!
Emi Koyama
Intersex Initiative Portland
http://www.ipdx.org/
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