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Steph Lum, speaking at Women Deliver 2019

Steph Lum at Women Deliver 2019

…isation, and harmful practices because their bodies are seen as different. Steph Lum, co-chair of Intersex Human Rights Australia, discusses some of the experiences some intersex women face in their personal relationships and barriers in accessing appropriate healthcare at the Women Deliver 2019 conference in Vancouver, Canada, June 2019. This Power Talk was the first presentation on intersex at this global women’s conference. Watch here, and cong…

Steph Lum, photo by Georgia Andrews. Glasses by Irene Kuzemko

Steph Lum: “Intersex self-love”

Steph Lum. Photo by Georgia Andrews, glasses by Irene Kuzemko. Steph Lum (co-chair, IHRA) has won a prize for the poem “Intersex self-love”, in the Canberra SpringOut essay competition. This inaugural competition was supported by SpringOUT in partnership with the Equal Rights Coalition. Congratulations, Steph! You know what happened When they tried to make you normal All those appointments you hated Where they looked at you Touched you It was act…

Steph Lum in Geneva, 2018

Steph Lum: speech to Canberra think tank on LGBTIQ inclusion

Steph Lum in Geneva, June 2018 Steph Lum gave this speech to the Inclusive Canberra think tank, held by the ACT LGBTIQ Ministerial Advisory Council, on 14 November 2017. Tonight I am speaking as a young person with an intersex variation. I’m really encouraged that we have such a positive environment here in the ACT and there’s a lot of energy and will to make things better for the LGBTIQ community. But how we make sure that everyone within that c…

Steph Lum, performing the poem Graduation Day

Graduation Day, a poem by Steph Lum

…On 2 May, Steph Lum (editor of the YOUth&I magazine) performed the poem Graduation Day as part of Equality Australia’s Queer Love In. We’re pleased to now share this poem with you.   The event was an afternoon of performance to support LGBTI artists who have lost income due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Find out more, and watch the entire event, online on the Equality Australia Facebook page….

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Emeritus board members

…ised bodies. Olympia stepped down in November 2022 to join our staff team. Steph Lum – Co-chair Articles by Steph Articles about Steph Steph first joined the board in February 2017, then took a leave of absence at the end of that year to take a short-term position with the Australian Human Rights Commission. They returned to the board, and the role of co-chair, between December 2018 and November 2019. Steph is a lawyer, working in the field of hum…

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Joint statement to the Congregation for Catholic Education

…ntersex individual subjected to surgery Shannon Brewington Matthew Edwards Stephanie Lum Kama Maclean Mark Willcox Manuela Falzone Jules Joanne Gleeson, VIMÖ Katrin Gerald Halmer Dr Rebecca Green Dorothea Giesche von Rüden, Intersexuelle Menschen e.V., Deutschland, OII Marlies Marlow Ostl Joery Buitelaar Elena-Maria Beenen Shone Edem, Interfaith Diversity Network of West Africa Natascha Herpich Rachel Garfield Emili Stevenson Alex Jürgen, VIMÖ All…

Intersex for parents.

Intersex for parents

…e’. Hormone Research in Paediatrics 85 (3): 158–80. doi:10.1159/000442975. Lum, Steph, ed. 2019. YOUth&I Issue 1. https://darlington.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/YOUthAndI-Layout-Final-Web.pdf OII Europe, IGLYO, and European Parents’ Association. 2018. ‘Supporting Your Intersex Child – A Parents’ Toolkit’. https://oiieurope.org/supporting-your-intersex-child-a-parents-toolkit/ OII-USA, Hida Viloria, and Claudia Astorino. 2013. ‘Your Beautiful…

Health in Difference panel presentation

Health in Difference, 2018

…oroney, Steph Lum, Georgie Yovanovic, Candice Cody and Mani Mitchell. Read Steph Lum’s presentation Workshop sessions Bonnie Hart (AISSGA) and Mani Mitchell (ITANZ) led a workshop on working with intersex (diverse sex characteristics) clients. This interactive workshop is for mental health practitioners. It will explore the unique aspects of working therapeutically with the intersex community. We will establish a definition. We will clarify what a…

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Webinar: YOUth&I, stories by intersex youth

…ut their work in producing YOUth&I, with a second issue also in the works. Steph Lum is an intersex advocate, poet and legal researcher based in Australia. Steph founded YOUth&I in 2019 as a way to create a platform for young intersex creatives to share their work. Steph is also a signatory to the Darlington statement, an Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand intersex community consensus statement, and is a former co-Chair of Intersex Human Rights A…

Intersex Awareness Day 2020: make every day Intersex Awareness Day

Intersex Awareness Day, 2020

…ntersex, if you get what we mean! Now for today’s special guest… Steph Lum is an intersex advocate, researcher, poet and founder of the very first intersex youth publication, YOUth&I. Up until recently, Steph was living on Ngunnawal land in Canberra but has moved to Ireland to research intersex human rights issues. “Intersex visibility is so important so that intersex people can grow up and see themselves and their experiences reflected around…

Bill to end harmful practices in medical settings introduced in the ACT

…tful and consultative work that has gone into developing this bill – Steph Lum Steph Lum lives in Canberra. They are a poet, lawyer and founder of YOUth&I, a project auspiced by IHRA: This bill is a huge step forward in protecting the human rights of intersex people in the ACT and offers a helpful model for other jurisdictions. It represents a shift in how the ACT thinks about us – as people deserving of a voice in decisions that impact us and as…

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Intersex for allies

…10 Non-fiction YOUth&I stories, poems and art by intersex youth, edited by Steph Lum, 2019 Fixing Sex by Katrina Karkazis The Legal Status of Intersex Persons by Jens Sherpe, Anatol Dutta and Tobias Helms (eds) Critical Intersex by Morgan Holmes (ed) Raising Rose: Our Story of Parenting an Intersex Child by Eric Lohman, Stephani Lohman and Georgiann Davis Fiction Golden Boy: A Novel by Abigail Tarttelin None of the Above by I W Gregorio Documentar…