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Audible Audiobook Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography. View Hida Viloria’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. 1,083 Followers, 765 Following, 321 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Hida Viloria (@hidaviloria) Oprah’s Book Club Born Both An Intersex Life. OII International site OII Friends & Members group OII Europe. Hi everyone! television and radio guest (The Oprah Winfrey Show, HuffPost Live, 20/20, Aljazeera, BBC Radio, KPFA) Hida Viloria in the Groundbreaking GENDERNAUTS]", "What Does It Mean To Be Intersex? Hida Viloria uploaded and posted 7 years ago ... 5:58. Viloria is the author of the acclaimed Born Both: An Intersex Life (Hatchette Book Group, March, 2017),[5] and has been published extensively on intersectional intersex issues such Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM), its harms, heteronormative imperatives and similarities to FGM, discrimination against intersex women in sports, sexuality, legal gender recognition, and gender identity, in venues such as The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, The Advocate, Ms., The New York Times, The American Journal of Bioethics, the Global Herald, CNN.com, and more. Hida Viloria (nacido el 29 de mayo de 1968) es una latina escritor estadounidense, autor de Born Ambos: Una vida por Intersex ( Hachette Books), y intersexuales y no binarios derechos activista de descendencia de Colombia y Venezuela. “Claudia, in her heart, is a human rights activist,” says Hida Viloria, an activist who has appeared on Oprah and is the director of OII USA. Hida Viloria. [37], Viloria has also advocated against Intersex Genital Mutilation via essays,[38][39][16] and in he/r 2017 memoir, Born Both: An Intersex LIfe.[5]. Go to Oprah.com to see highlights of the show >> I know that it would have harmed my self-esteem to be raised under a term which named my difference a 'disorder.' In Spring 2011, Viloria was voted Chairperson of OII, upon founder Curtis Hinkle's retirement. I'm Hida (pronounced "Heeda") Viloria, a Latinx, gender fluid, intersex writer and activist. Born Both. Viloria spoke about being non-binary, also known as genderqueer, in the groundbreaking, award-winning 1999 documentary Gendernauts.[34]. Her father, a physician, and mother, an ex-school teacher, chose to register and raise her as female without subjecting her to medically unnecessary cosmetic genital surgeries, also known as intersex genital mutilation (IGM), that were routinely recommended at the time for intersex children with genital variance like hers.[4]. It’s an activists’ dream come true . What's in a Name. 2017 Audiobooks See All. Between 2010 and 2017 Viloria published numerous essays speaking out against nonconsensual medically unnecessary surgeries, also known as intersex genital mutilation, in publications including CNN.com, The Advocate, The Huffingtion Post, and the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics. Hida Viloria is a human rights activist and writer whose work has appeared in The Advocate, CNN.com, Ms., The Global Herald, The New York Times, The Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, The American Journal of Bioethics, The Hastings Report Bioethics Forum, in her blog Intersex and Out, and in the college textbook, Queer: A Reader for Writers (Oxford University Press). Viloria is recognized as a human rights activist who advocates for equality and human rights for intersex and non-binary people, as president elect of the Organisation Intersex International from 2011 to 2017, and as founding director of the Intersex Campaign for Equality. [30], In the fall of 2011, Viloria founded the Intersex Campaign for Equality, to work for equality and human rights for intersex Americans. [27][28], In April, 2017, Viloria became the second American recipient of an intersex birth certificate, issued by the city of New York. By Hida Viloria, Published on 01/01/17. [29], In spring 2010, Viloria joined the Organisation Intersex International, or OII, the first international intersex organization, was appointed Human Rights Spokesperson, and began lobbying against discriminatory regulations for intersex women athletes. It’s an activists’ dream come true , Go to Oprah.com to see highlights of the show >>. Even complete ignorance about what to call myself was preferable as I was able to form positive beliefs about my unique qualities. Hida on Oprah - Duration: 5 minutes, 58 seconds. In early 2012 she received a response from the U.S. Department of State in early 2012 affirming the importance of including the intersex community in human rights work. Viloria stepped down in November 2017, when Intersex Campaign for Equality left OII. Growing Up Intersex and a Discussion of the Book Middlesex. Also, a discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides on the book club selection Middlesex. In April, 2013, Viloria's intersex advocacy organization was selected as a finalist for the Kalamazoo College Global Prize for Collaborative Social Justice, administered by Kalamazoo College's Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership. Annotation. [7], Viloria has argued since 2009 that Olympic sex testing is applied in a way that targets 'butch,' or masculine-looking, women. Hida Viloria San Francisco Viloria es director fundador de la Campaña por la Igualdad intersexuales. ", "Inside Edition Gets It Right and Presents Out, Unashamed Intersexed People: Their Words, Their Lives and No Disguises", "Controversy Over Operating to Change Ambiguous Genitalia", "Cosmetic Genital Surgery/Sex Re-assignment of Intersex Babies is wrong: Case Closed", "San Francisco Human Rights Commission on Intersex", "Hida Viloria Tells Us What She Really Thinks", "OII's Petition to the IOC: Depathologization & Fair Policies for Intersex Athletes", "Is sex testing in the Olympics a fool's errand? [26], With the advent of a new German law assigning visibly intersex infants to an 'indeterminate' gender, Viloria has argued that this approach to birth registrations fails to provide adequate human rights for intersex people, and fails to address the most critical need: for an end to normalizing surgical and hormonal interventions on infants and children. ", "Dispelling The Myths: My Experience Growing Up Intersex and Au Naturel", "Born Both An Intersex Life by Hida Viloria LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST", "Gender Rules in Sport – Leveling The Playing Field, Or Reversed Doping? I'm Hida (pronounced "Heeda"), one of the first publicly intersex, non-binary and gender-fluid people on this beautiful planet. In 2006, the international medical establishment replaced the terms "hermaphrodite" and "intersex" with the term "disorders of sex development". Hida (“Heeda”) Viloria is a writer, author of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award nominated memoir, Born Both: An Intersex Life (Hachette Books), and one of the world’s foremost intersex and non-binary activists, bringing an intersectional analysis to he/r work as the queer child of Latinx immigrants. In 2002, Viloria spoke about feeling blessed s/he did not experience forced infant genital surgeries on 20/20 (American TV program). In 1996, Viloria participated in the first international intersex retreat. ", "Olympics' New Hormone Regulations: Judged By How You Look", "At UN human rights event, Navratilova and Collins decry homophobic violence", "No Games for Women with Too Much Testosterone", "Germany Intersex;Pakistan Taliban leader reported dead", "NYC Issues Second Intersex Birth Certificate! [23][24], In 2014, Viloria advocated against the IOC and IAAF's regulations for women with hyperandrogenism on a panel on the Aljazeera television show The Stream.
) Latin American writer Hida Viloria is the author of Born Both: An Intersex Life. [10], In September 2015, the UN's Free & Equal Campaign for Equality produced a video of Viloria[35] in conjunction with the release of their groundbreaking resource the Intersex Fact Sheet,[36] and in 2016 Viloria was one of the "Intersex Voices" featured in the Free and Equal Campaign for Equality's Intersex Awareness Campaign. In 2019 Viloria was featured in the Smithsonian Channel documentary, The General Was Female?, which explores compelling evidence that General Casimir Pulaski, revered as the father of the American Cavalry, may have been intersex. Hida Viloria was born neither completely male nor completely female — but was raised as a girl. Intersex Campaign for Equality", "New Mission and Independent Status for IC4E as Viloria resigns from post as OII Chair", "OII receives reply from US Department of State to OII Chairperson Hida Viloria's letter asking for intersex inclusion in LGBTI – not LGBT-only – global human rights efforts", "Open Letter to the UN OHCHR: 1st global call for human rights by & for intersex people! Her memoir Born Both: An Intersex Life, published March 14, 2017, by Hachette Books, examines and critiques intersex genital mutilation extensively. In 2007, on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Viloria likened society's lack of understanding of non-binary people, and the pressure non-binary people experience to identify as men or women, to what people of mixed African-American and caucasian race sometimes experience, saying, "Society pressures you to choose sides, just like they pressure mixed race people to decide, you know... 'Are you really black? Hida Viloria (born May 29, 1968) is a Latinx American writer, author of Born Both: An Intersex Life (Hachette Books), and intersex and non-binary rights activist of Colombian and Venezuelan descent. “The spectrum is enormous….This is purely biological,” explained Oprah Winfrey on The Oprah Winfrey Show segment, “Growing Up Intersex” during an interview with Hida Viloria. OII National and Linguistic Affiliates. [31], In 2012, Viloria spearheaded the first unified, global call for human rights by and for intersex people, in a letter signed by thirty leading intersex advocacy organizations, to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Meet people who grew up intersex. The issue even made it to Oprah, and she called us "intersex" not "Middlesex" (the title of her book club selection), or anything else. Viloria is among a handful of American intersex activists[citation needed] who opposed the use of the term "Disorders of Sex Development" since its introduction. 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