About
My most sustained work has been in intersex advocacy. I’ve been part of this movement since its early days, focused on the rights of people born with intersex variations — particularly around medical decision-making, bodily autonomy, and the harm done by shame, secrecy, and nonconsensual sexual surgeries on children. I founded the Intersex Society of North America in 1993. You can see its archived website at https://isna.org. Or visit InterACT Advocates for Intersex Youth to learn what’s happening in that world today.
See Dark by Default: A Consent Firewall for Static Digital Collections for some insight into how this is managed. At a deeper level, it’s a static site generator (quarto) hosted on Github Pages.
For more information about me, Bo Laurent, see my personal website https://bolaurent.com.
For researchers
Unless otherwise specified, physical originals are held at The Kinsey Institute Library. Born-digital assets are from my personal collection. If you are researching the history of the intersex movement and would like access to the physical materials, or to items not yet published here, please contact me at contact@bolaurentpapers.org