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| Added | Item date | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-10 | 1996-10-26 | American Academy of Pediatrics Position on Intersexuality | On Saturday, 26 October 1996, the Intersex Society of North America picketed the American Academy of Pediatrics’ annual meeting at the Hynes in Boston, under the banner… |
| 2026-07-09 | 1998-02-01 | Press coverage in Urology Times, 1997–1998 | Between February 1997 and February 1998, the trade newspaper Urology Times ran three articles by staff correspondent Anne Scheck that followed the intersex-surgery… |
| 2026-07-08 | 1996-10-01 | Letter to Dr. Robert Kay, with “Why We Are Picketing the AAP” | In October 1996, writing under the name Cheryl Chase, Bo Laurent sent this letter to Dr. Robert Kay, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Section on Urology, in the… |
| 2026-07-05 | 1993-01-31 | The Randolph Correspondence, 1992–1993 | Primary-source correspondence documenting the exchange that preceded the founding of the Intersex Society of North America. |
| 2026-07-05 | 2026-07-05 | Dark by Default: A Consent Firewall for Static Digital Collections | A two-repository architecture that keeps unreviewed material structurally absent from the public archive rather than merely hidden — the design behind the Bo Laurent Papers. |
| 2026-07-04 | 1994-10-31 | isna.org: the movement moves online | A provenance record for the Intersex Society of North America’s website: the registration of the isna.org domain in 1994, and the earliest known capture of the site in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, in 1998. |
| 2026-07-04 | 2026-07-04 | Correspondence from the Suzanne Kessler Collection | A folder of my early correspondence, kept in someone else’s archive, comes back to me as scans. |
| 2026-07-03 | 1994-09-06 | Cheryl Chase to Natalie Angier | One of three letters in which the movement reached out to journalism, science, and history in the founder’s own words — here to New York Times science writer Natalie Angier.… |
| 2026-07-03 | 1993-01-29 | Letter to Suzanne Kessler | A 1993 letter from Bo Laurent (writing as Cheryl Chase), founder of the Intersex Society of North America, to social psychologist Suzanne Kessler at SUNY Purchase, laying out the evidence and personal testimony behind the argument that infant genital surgery destroys sexual sensation. The physical letter carries Kessler’s handwritten marginal responses, preserved here as a second layer. |
| 2026-07-03 | 1993-07-01 | Intersexual Rights | The letter in which Cheryl Chase announced the Intersex Society of North America and invited intersex people to write to its San Francisco post-office box — generally regarded as the public founding of the U.S. intersex movement. |
| 2026-07-01 | 1993-12-31 | Hermaphrodites with Attitudes — Volume 1, Number 1 | The complete first issue of Hermaphrodites with Attitudes, the newsletter of the Intersex Society of North America (ISNA), Winter 1994 — the first regular publication of the intersex movement. Full transcription with an editorial headnote, plus the original born-digital issue. |
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