Search Results for intersex

... the one they are assigned to at birth. Transgender is imagined as a form of intersexuality—but of the brain, rather than the genitalia. This article aims to critically interrogate the neuroscientific notion of transgender as brain intersex by situating the neuroscientific understanding of trans people...

... personal experiences but connected to larger structures of inequity, and that the narrative of medical emergency around intersex infants is coercive. Thank you both for your time, work, and insights. Pagonis : Thank you so much everybody. This is a beautiful conversation. Wolff : I...

...Mel Michelle Lewis Abstract This article coins the term Intersex Justice Pedagogy and outlines this practice as a decolonial and intersectional teaching and learning praxis that affirms bodily integrity and bodily autonomy as the practice of liberation for intersex people of color. The author...

...Iain Morland Abstract This essay critiques the practice of childhood genital surgery for intersex/disorders of sex development. The essay draws on the sociology of perception and poststructuralist theory (in particular Jacques Lacan) to analyze the subject position offered by surgery as a function...

...Jennifer Yusin Abstract This essay explores some of the ways relations between body and law shape intersex and trans experiences. It draws on the work of Dean Spade, Suzanne Kessler, and Audre Lorde to help show how intersex and trans experiences imply a certain link between justice and joy...

...Quincy Meyers Abstract This article analyzes the history of trans identities and intersex subjectivities to understand intersex and trans intercommunity relations and identify coalitional strategies. Citing Black and postcolonial studies scholars such as C. Riley Snorton and Zine Magubane...

... , Cotten Trystan , Stanley Eric A. , Young Kalaniopua , and Aizura Aren Z. 2014 . “ Decolonizing Transgender: A Roundtable Discussion .” TSQ 1 , no. 3 : 419 – 39 . Chase Cheryl . 1998 . “ Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political...

...Gabrielle Le Roux; Nthabiseng Mokoena; Julius Kaggwa; Hana Aoi [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 My name is Nthabiseng Mokoena. I am a Black intersex genderqueer...

...Toto Duarte [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Figure 1. Cata: Here in Chile . Mural. I'm one of the coordinators of “Comunidad Intersex Pacífico Sur.” We've been doing some encounters strictly between intersex people called “Vivir la I...

... the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Sometimes individuals are born with genital, genetic, or hormonal characteristics that some people find confusing. From this phenomenon of “intersex,” a range of claims...

...Meridith Kruse Intersex Matters: Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism . David A. Rubin . Albany : SUNY Press , 2017 . 211 pp. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Across Intersex Matters David A. Rubin calls on a wide range...

...Maren Behrensen Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience . Hil Malatino . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2019 . 246 pp. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 When I first read Hil Malatino's book, I had two strong...

... politics of fascism. Disability's plurality allows it to differentially substitute for both trans and intersex. In turn, these slides between trans, intersex, and disability fuel trans‐exclusionary medical and policy protocols. The article addresses these off‐balance slippages between intersex, trans...

...Katie Goss Abstract Intersex thinkers and activists, queer-feminist science studies, and new materialist initiatives have argued that sex's complex materiality undermines the rigid binaries imposed by essentialist biology and exceeds the malleability of the body constructed as entirely open...

...Kianna M. Middleton [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 This essay is an inquiry into the narrative of happiness in intersex management and the American imaginary in the post–World War II era in the United States. Beginning...

...Jazz Bell [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 My art covers a wide range of styles and formats and most often revolves around my relation to my body as a disabled, intersex, nonbinary, biracial, and fat being. My activism and work are primarily...

... of African athletes deemed intersex by sporting and medical authorities, the author demonstrates how current approaches to undermining sex segregation in sports still risk excluding certain athletes—intersex, nonbinary, and non-medically transitioning athletes. Ultimately, the author argues that if the goal...

...Anna McNay; Jay Stewart Abstract Historically, the dominant body of representations of gender variance has been presented from the point of view of the medical practitioner: as abnormalities, as “other.” In spring 2013, thirty transgender and intersex people participated in GI's Anatomy, a series...

...Hilary Malatino Abstract Conventional approaches to trans inclusion in the women's, gender, and sexuality studies classroom often involve what Diana Courvant has called the “special guest” approach of bringing in trans, intersex, and gender-nonconforming folk to represent and authenticate trans...

... alongside histories of the sex/gender distinction. Sexological research on intersex and transsexual patients played a role in the emergence of gender as a discrete category in mid-twentieth-century psychiatry and biomedicine. However, some histories of the sex/gender distinction draw exclusively from...