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Hello Friends,
The 22nd San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival will take place throughout the month of March, and will feature the U.S. premiere screening of "Being Normal," the groundbreaking Korean documentary about the experiences of an intersex person. The film, directed by Choi Hyun-jung, will be shown three times: March 7th at 12:15pm, March 8th at 9:15pm, and March 10th at 7pm. For more description of the film or to purchase tickets, please visit:
<http://www.naatanet.org/festival/2004/html/index.html>
I will visit San Francisco this March 6-9 partly to see the film on the 7th, partly to visit with a good friend of mine who has moved to the City last month. I'd like to meet with any activist or supporter from the area for coffee (tea, milkshake, etc.) and chat as the schedule allows, so email me if you want to get together.
Also, for those of you from Portland area, we are still accepting application for the March 27
Emi Koyama <emi@intersexinitiative.org>
Director, Intersex Initiative
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OTHER NEWS from ipdxWIRE: INTERSEX NEWS--
CREIGHTON AND LIAO CALL FOR "CASE-BY-CASE EXPLORATION" IN BJU INTERNATIONAL
Sarah Creighton and Lih-Mei Liao of the University College London Hospitals wrote a new report titled "Changing attitudes to sex assignment in intersex" in the March 2004 issue of BJU International. While acknowledging that drawing participants from intersex condition support groups for recent follow-up studies may have contributed to the data denouncing cosmetic genital surgeries on children, Creighton and Liao argue that "surgeons may not be able to suspend for much longer the reality of the challenges posed by different groups and continue their usual practice unabated"...
Read more at: <http://www.intersexinitiative.org/news/000147.html>
TIME MAGAZINE DOES AN INTERSEX ARTICLE
The new edition of TIME magazine has an article about the intersex controversy featuring ISNA board members Debbie Hartman and Thea Hillman as well as several other intersex activists. Mostly good, sympathetic content. See below for our letter to the editor in response...
Read more at: <http://www.intersexinitiative.org/news/000142.html>
INCLUSION OF "I" TO "LGBT" AT SAN FRANCISCO PRIDE RECOMMENDED
According to a discussion on Bodies Like Ours Community Forum, San Francisco Pride Committee invited local intersex individuals and allies for a meeting last week to discuss whether or not to add the "I" (intersex) to its "LGBT Pride" celebration. In this meeting, "an IS [intersex - ed.] vote was taken on the recommendation that SF Pride include I in LGBT, and all IS participants present voted in favor of the recommendation," according to the report...
Read more at: <http://www.intersexinitiative.org/news/000141.html>
GENDER ASSIGNMENT VS. SURGERY IN "NATURE"
January 29, 2004 edition of the science journal Nature has a feature story titled "The most important sexual organ" that explores the implication of the recent findings regarding the brain sex differentiation and other researches. While the article mostly focuses on the science of sex differentiation and the development of gender identity, it also addresses how the new discoveries will impact the controversy over intersex treatment.
Read more at: <http://www.intersexinitiative.org/news/000137.html>
ALSO, you may have noticed that you can enter "comments" to each news item on the web--we *love* it when people put responses (thanks, Molly F!) so feel free to post your comments, ideas, whatever.
Thanks for your support!
Intersex Initiative
http://www.intersexinitiative.org
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