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Association Of The Russian Speaking Intersex
The Association of the Russian Speaking Intersex (ARSI) () the first Russian intersex human rights organization. It is the unregistered non-governmental organization. It was founded in August 2013 by Aleksander Berezkin, a Russian intersex man, asylum seeker and intersex human rights activist. The organization provides psychological and legal support to intersex people in Russia and other post-Soviet countries, provides lectures and seminars, speaks in the media Mission The organisation mission is to improve the well-being of intersex-people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. To raise awareness about intersex people, promote the full realization of their human rights, and provide informational, psychological, legal, and other types of support on intersex issues. History The organization was founded in August 2013 by Aleksander Berezkin after consulting with Julia Pustovit, the first modern intersex advocate in Eastern Europe. Thus, it became the first intersex organization in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksander Berezkin
Aleksander Berezkin () is a Russian intersex nonbinary person, refugee, and intersex human rights activist. He is a founder of the first Russian intersex human rights organization Association of the Russian Speaking Intersex (ARSI). Early life Aleksandr was born in Novokuznetsk, Russia. He was diagnosed with Klinefelter syndrome at the age of 17, after learning about his diagnosis directly from his physician. He openly speaks about living with Klinefelter syndrome. He has graduated with a BA in Sociology from Kemerovo State University and an MA in Sociology from Far Eastern State Technical University. Aleksandr has stated that his doctor told him he would never find someone else with his intersex variation, that he should keep it a secret, and never talk about his identity with anyone. Activism Aleksandr started his advocacy in 2013, following a talk with Hida Viloria, working on intersex and LGBTI Intersex people are born with sex characteristics (such as genitals, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intersex Human Rights
Intersex people are born with sex characteristics, such as chromosomes, gonads, or genitals, that, according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies." Intersex persons often face stigmatisation and discrimination from birth, particularly when an intersex variation is visible. In some countries this may include infanticide, abandonment and the stigmatization of families. Mothers in East Africa may be accused of witchcraft, and the birth of an intersex child may be described as a curse. Intersex infants and children, such as those with ambiguous outer genitalia, may be surgically and/or hormonally altered to fit perceived more socially acceptable sex characteristics. However, this is considered controversial, with no firm evidence of good outcomes. While infertility among intersex people is associated with specific conditions, these surgical interventions are also associated with infertility in inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Kuzemko
Irene Kuzemko (; ), also transcribed from Ukrainian and Russian as Irina Kuzemko, is a Russian- Ukrainian intersex woman and intersex human rights activist. She co-founded Intersex Russia in 2017, is a youth member of interACT, and an executive board member of OII Europe. She have started her human rights advocacy as a member of Association of the Russian Speaking Intersex. Early life Kuzemko was born in 1993 in Lviv, Ukraine with mixed gonadal dysgenesis and assigned female at birth. She was unaware of any difference in her body until puberty when her body failed to menstruate or grow breasts, and she was unaware of this possibility. Kuzemko was sent to Moscow aged 15 for medical treatment. She describes being left in the corridor while discussions about her body took place without her being present, experiences of shame, alienation and suicidality, and her father telling her she had "something wrong with erovaries". She underwent surgery, awaking with her hands and legs t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kommersant
(, , ''The Businessman'' or Commerce Man, often shortened to Ъ) is a nationally distributed daily newspaper published in Russia mostly devoted to politics and business. The TNS Media and NRS Russia certified July 2013 circulation of the daily was 120,000–130,000. It is widely considered to be one of Russia's three main business dailies (together with '' Vedomosti'' and '' RBK Daily''). History The original ''Kommersant'' newspaper was established in Moscow in 1909, but was shut down by the Bolsheviks following the October Revolution in 1917. In 1989, with the onset of press freedom in Russia, was relaunched under the ownership of businessman and publicist Vladimir Yakovlev. The first issue was released in January 1990. It was modeled after Western business journalism. The newspaper's title is spelled in Russian with a terminal hard sign (ъ) – a letter that is silent at the end of a word in modern Russian, and was thus largely abolished by the post-revolution ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moskovskij Komsomolets
''Moskovskij Komsomolets'' (''MK''; ) is a Moscow-based daily newspaper with a circulation approaching one million, covering general news. Founded in 1919, it is famed for its topical reporting on Russian politics and society. History The newspaper was first published by the Moscow Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (Komsomol) on 11 December 1919 as ''Yunyi Kommunar'' (). Over the next years it changed its name several time, starting a few months after the first issue when it became the ''Yunosheskaya Pravda'' (). In 1924, after Vladimir Lenin's death, it was renamed to ''Molodoy Leninets'' (). It took its present-day name in September 1929. Between 1931 and 1939, the paper ceased publication. It was revived in 1940, but not for long: World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. Worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgiann Davis
Georgiann Davis is an associate professor of sociology at the University of New Mexico and author of the book ''Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis''. Davis formerly held similar positions at University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Born with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, she writes widely on intersex issues and the sociology of diagnosis. Early life In a video for The Interface Project, Davis states how she was born with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome and diagnosed as an adolescent after experiencing abdominal pain. Her testes were removed, but she wasn't told her diagnosis: she was told she had cancer. In an article for ''Ms. Magazine'', she says: Works Book ''Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis'' by Georgiann Davis examines the history of the U.S. intersex movement, with a focus on the medicalization of intersex bodies and a contested shift in clinical language from intersex to "disorders of sex develop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intersex Rights Organizations
Intersex people are those born with any of several sex characteristics, including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies". Sex assignment at birth usually aligns with a child's external genitalia. The number of births with ambiguous genitals is in the range of 1:4,500–1:2,000 (0.02%–0.05%). Other conditions involve the development of atypical chromosomes, gonads, or hormones. The portion of the population that is intersex has been reported differently depending on which definition of intersex is used and which conditions are included. Estimates range from 0.018% (one in 5,500 births) to 1.7%. The difference centers on whether conditions in which chromosomal sex matches a phenotypic sex which is clearly identifiable as male or female, such as late onset congenital adrenal hyperplasia (1.5 percentage points) and Klinefelte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
