Welcome!
I’m Hida (pronounced “Heeda”), a Latine-American writer, author and speaker.
This site shares my writing and my some of my work creating mainstream awareness about my intersex community.
Intersex
refers to being born with biological sex traits (gonads, genitalia, and/or choromosomes) that are a blend of male and female or are atypical for either. In the West we were known as hermaphrodites until the mid 1990’s, when “intersex” came into use, and some of us, including yours truly, call ourselves herms.
The Spectrum of Sex:
The Science of Male, Female and Intersex
Born Both:
An Intersex Life
Holding the hard copy in the Sunday Times was even better!
REVIEW. Baum, Meghan, “The intersex body, the dead body, the body in grief: three accounts of the human form.” May 28, 2017, […]
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Born Both Reviewed by the New York Times!
I’m overjoyed and deeply grateful to see the labor and love of my life, Born Both: An Intersex Life, reviewed by the New […]
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“Intersex and Happy” Interview in Psychology Today
“I define gender as… a unique, non-audible song that all humans sing. We can try to imitate the most accepted, popular songs but […]
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April 24th at the Santa Monica Public Library
In the City of Intersex Angels chapter of my memoir Born Both: An Intersex Life — named after the blissful year I spent living in […]
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LA Times Festival of Books Sat April 22nd!
Very excited and honored to participate in the panel Self Discovery: The First Frontier, at the LA Times Festival of Books this Saturday! See […]
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Arts & Ideas Series Video of Exploring Intersex at the SF JCC
I’m truly grateful to everyone at the Arts & Ideas Series and the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco for hosting last night’s event […]
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Rave Review of Born Both in The Washington Post!
Enormous thanks to Juliet Jacques for this in-depth, beautiful, rave review of my memoir Born Both: An Intersex Life, in the Washington Post:”Overcoming […]
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Beautiful Deaf Accessible Reading, Collected Works, Santa Fe
Couldn’t have asked for a lovelier, move moving first reading last night, with my beautiful partner providing ASL interpretation right beside me; very special. Big […]
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Born Both Selected as one of People’s Best New Books!
“Intersex people often have their dual gender surgically ‘corrected,’ but trailblazing activist Viloria didn’t. Her memoir is fierce, brave, and a clarion call […]
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My Interview on SoCal NPR’s Air Talk
Big thanks to Air Talk host Larry Mantle, and everyone at 89.3 KPCC Southern California Public Radio (SCPR)– a member-supported public media network […]
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Interview in Rolling Stone!
As a kid, I loved and devoured Rolling Stone interviews, and so I can’t say how thrilled I am to find myself interviewed in […]
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April 7th, Arts & Ideas Series, San Francisco
In conversation with filmmaker Sam McConnell, producer of HBO’s The Out List and The Trans List, at the Jewish Community Center’s “Arts […]
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March 31st, Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle
Excited to be presenting a reading of my memoir Born Both: An Intersex Life at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, Washington. Friday, March 31, […]
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March 25th, Collected Works Bookstore, Santa Fe
Saturday, March 25th, 6pm. 202 Galisteo St., Santa Fe, NM 87501 Exited to have the first reading of my memoir Born Both: An Intersex Life, […]
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Last chance to pre-order Born Both!
I’ve never had a baby, but this project gestated longer than one, and I’m about to give birth! Please support intersex voices and people in […]
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Born Both listed as one of the Culture Essentials for March!
I’m a native New Yorker, and my memoir begins in Brooklyn, so I couldn’t be more pleased and honored to be listed as one of […]
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Born Both Makes Bustle’s 20 Best Nonfiction Books of March List!
I am absolutely thrilled to announce that my memoir Born Both: An Intersex Life (Hachette Books, March 14), has been listed by Bustle as one […]
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Advance book copies are in! <3 :) <3
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Audio Book Recording of Born Both Begins!
Starting tomorrow I’ll be in a studio for 5 days recording the audio version of my memoir—AH!!!!!! Can I really read that much out loud? […]
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Quoted in People Magazine!
I was SO happy to hear the news last week about NYC’s intersex birth certificate—from the fantastic Sara Kelly Keenan, the person who’s been issued […]
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