Apr 28, 2020
Morgan Holmes
Gender: Female
Sexuality: N/A
DOB: N/A
Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Professor, activist, writer
Note: Participated in the first public demonstration by intersex people, now marked by Intersex Awareness Day
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Morgan Holmes
Gender: Female
Sexuality: N/A
DOB: N/A
Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Professor, activist, writer
Note: Participated in the first public demonstration by intersex people, now marked by Intersex Awareness Day
Did you know that being intersex is as common as having red hair?
In honor of tomorrow’s Intersex Awareness Day (October 26th), the Hormel Center would like to acknowledge the “I” in our LGBTQIA family with some background on what exactly intersex is as well as a few book and history center recommendations for materials related to these often misunderstood lived experiences. The term intersex is commonly misused to describe the presence of ovotestes when in actuality intersex describes the presence, absence, or a mixture of human sexual characteristics that do not fit current binary definitions of Female and Male. These varied designations based on reproductive organs, gonads, and chromosomes occur at a rate of 1 in every 2000 births and can be made at in utero, at birth, following a delayed or non-existent puberty, whenever reproductive issues present themselves, or even posthumously.
If you would like to learn more about intersex justice and life with these conditions, please check out David Cameron Strachan Intersex A/V Materials 6th Floor - History Center Call #: GLC 54 Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis 3rd Floor - Hormel Center Call #: 306.7685 D2933c Born Both: An Intersex Life 3rd Floor - Page Desk Call #: 306.7685 V719b Intersex: A Perilous Difference 3rd Floor - Page Desk Call #: 616.694 H7369i Orchids: My Intersex Adventure https://sfpl.kanopy.com/video/orchids
TIGERRS celebrates Women's History Month by highlighting Morgan Holmes, an author, activist and professor of Sociology. She is well known for being part of the first public demonstration by intersex people after her and her associate Max Beck's exclusion from a clinical conference, the anniversary of which is now marked by Intersex Awareness Day (October 26).