Who are some historical intersex figures? What about contemporary ones? What similarities and differences are in their experiences?
Compare and contrast examples of intersexuality from both the United States and across the globe in chronological order. Articles are meant to be brief and introductory so that readers get a general understanding of the individuals and what it was like for them to grow up intersex in their respective time period and location.
Norton, M. B. (2011). “Searches Again Assembled”: Gender Distinctions in Seventeenth-Century America. In Women’s America: Refocusing the Past (7th ed., pp. 61–69). Oxford University Press.
Coventry, M. (1998). The tyranny of the esthetic surgery’s most intimate violation. On The Issues Magazine – A Magazine of Feminist, Progressive Thinking. https://ontheissuesmagazine.com/ourbodies/the-tyranny-of-the-esthetic-surgerys-most-intimate-violation/
Holmes, M. (1996). Is growing up in silence better than growing up different? Intersex Society of North America. https://isna.org/node/743/
Aoi, H. (2017, November 7). Raising awareness: Being intersex in Mexico. Intersex Day. https://intersexday.org/en/raising-awareness-hana-aoi/
Salaudeen, A. (2019, September 22). Growing up intersex in a country where it is believed to be bad luck. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/21/health/intersex-south-africa-intl/index.html
Chang, C. (2023, February 24). The “I” in LGBTIQ+: What it’s like to be intersex in Australia. SBS News. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/intersex-what-its-like-to-be-i-in-lgbtiq/3h7t6fexq