Press Release: ISNA Intern to Present Home-Coming Reports in Portland
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 16, 2001
For more information contact:
Emi Koyama <emi@isna.org>
Summer 2001 ISNA Intern Emi Koyama will return to Portland, her
home town, and give two public presentations about intersex
movement and her experience working at Intersex Society of North
America. Here are date, time and location of these presentations
as well as descriptions:
- Homophobia and the Medical Abuse of Intersex Children.
Aug. 20 at noon; Basic Rights Oregon (3430 SE Belmont).
Every day, five intersex children in the United States go
through invasive and medically unnecessary cosmetic surgeries
on their genitals. That is more than 20 children a year in
Oregon alone. This lunch hour presentation will combine a
short (10 min.) film, lecture and discussion to explore the
role homophobia, biphobia and transphobia played in
rationalizing such a medical atrocity, and what LGBT
activists can do to help end it. This is a brown bag lunch
seminar for LGBT activists, sponsored by Basic Rights Oregon.
- Intersex Activism: A Report from the Frontline.
Aug. 23 at 7 pm; In Other Words (3734 SE Hawthorne).
A public presentation about the latest developments in the
intersex movement. This is a homecoming report by Emi, in
which she will talk about never-told-before stories from
her tenure as the Activist-in-Residence at Intersex Society
of North America. Come and find out what intersex activism
is about and where it is going from here. This event is
sponsored by Survivor Project and Intersex Society of North
America.
The latter event is also a kick-off for the statewide campaign to
end shame, secrecy and unwanted and unnecessary medical treatments
on intersex children in Oregon. The campaign is led by Survivor
Project, the Portland-based non-profit organization dedicated to
addressing the needs of intersex and trans survivors of abuse, and
is aimed at building a grass-roots awareness and support for
intersex activism. For more information about Survivor Project,
please visit its web site at http://www.survivorproject.org/
Founded in 1993, Intersex Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization working to end secrecy, shame and unwanted genital
surgeries for children born with atypical sex anatomy. For more
information, please visit on the web.
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