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SUMMARY:Making the Invisible Visible: Undoing Intersex Erasure
DESCRIPTION:Kontakt: elin.lundell@genus.lu.se\n\nAdeline BerrySenior Resear
 ch Fellow at University of Huddersfield in the UK.Making the Invisible Vis
 ible: Undoing Intersex ErasureIntersex is an umbrella term for a wide vari
 ety of naturally occurring variations that fall outside of strict medical 
 binary definitions of what are allowed to considered male or female bodies
 . These variations affect hormones\, chromosomes\, genitalia\, and gonads.
  Intersex people comprise as much as two percent of the population and yet
  they are underrepresented in many aspects of life including educational c
 urriculums\, healthcare and culture. Despite their invisibility\, recent r
 esearch from the European Union shows that intersex people face increasing
  levels of violence and discrimination.Much of the erasure intersex people
  suffer stems from medical practices that became popular in the 1960s purp
 orting to help facilitate the acceptance of intersex children in a binary 
 world. However\, according to intersex people\, these procedures result in
  severe and lasting problems that are physical\, sexual\, and psychologica
 l in nature. These practices would be considered illegal in many countries
  in which they are practiced due to their similarity to FGM or Female Geni
 tal Mutilation. In 2013\, the United Nations Special Rapporteur declared t
 hese medical procedures to be a form of torture\, and they were banned in 
 Malta two years later\, followed by bans in other countries including Germ
 any\, Iceland\, Portugal\, and Greece.In this presentation I examine mecha
 nisms and motivations behind intersex invisibility and how efforts to camp
 aign for intersex human rights can sometimes unwittingly contribute to int
 ersex erasure. Data in this presentation draws from my PhD research that\,
  while focusing on European intersex people older than 50 years-of-age\, e
 xamined the intersex life course from early childhood to see how and where
  intersex experience diverges from those of endosex\, or non-intersex peop
 le.BioAdeline Berry is a Senior Research Fellow at University of Huddersfi
 eld. She has a BA (Hons) in Psychology from Dublin Business School (2020) 
 and a PhD in sociology from the University of Huddersfield (2024). Her res
 earch focuses primarily\, but not entirely\, on intersex life experience. 
 Chair of Intersex Ireland since 2020\, she works actively with community\,
  politicians and human rights organisations on intersex rights and other i
 ssues. She is about to embark on groundbreaking research on intersex menta
 l health and coping mechanisms. Her monograph Intersex\, ageing and inters
 ectionalities is being published through Routledge and will be available s
 oon.Crip &amp\; Queer Seminar Spring 2026The Crip &amp\; Queer Seminar ser
 ies is hosted by the division of Gender Studies. After the seminars\, whic
 h are open to students\, staff\, and the general public\, we serve fika in
  the kitchen on the fourth floor of Gamla Lungkliniken.&nbsp\;Warmly welco
 me!ContactElin Lundell elin.lundell@genus.lu.seIrina Schmitt irina.schmitt
 @genus.lu.seAccessibilityThe room is accessible for wheelchair users (auto
 matic doors\, accessible toilet\, stair lift).\n\nMer information om händ
 elsen: https://www.soc.lu.se/evenemang/making-invisible-visible-undoing-in
 tersex-erasure
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LOCATION:Gamla lungkliniken (House G)\, Room 101
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