Welcome!
I'm Hida (pronounced "Heeda"), one of the first publicly intersex, non-binary and gender-fluid people on this beautiful planet.
This site shares my writing and my work creating mainstream awareness, and advocating for human rights, about and for my communities.
Intersex
referring to or being a person whose internal and/or external sexual and reproductive organs are not typically male or female
Non-binary
relating to or being a person who identifies with or expresses a gender identity that is neither entirely male nor entirely female
Gender-fluid
of, relating to, or being a person whose gender identity is not fixed
The Spectrum of Sex:
The Science of Male, Female and Intersex
Born Both:
An Intersex Life
IDAHO-T and Me: Thoughts on Inter Connectivity & Inclusion
Happy Belated IDAHO-T everyone! Yesterday was the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia (IDAHO-T), and I was too busy working towards LGBTQIA visibility and…
Read MorePresenting at Princeton!
I am honored and excited to be presenting my 101 workshop, “Reimagining the Human Species: Intersex People in Society”, and my lecture,” Sex is Complicated:…
Read MoreA Gender Fluid, Intersex Homage to David Bowie
I’m supposed to be working on my manuscript draft, but this morning I learned that David Bowie had passed away, and there’s nothing more pressing…
Read MorePublished in new college textbook by Oxford Univ. Press!
My essay, “What’s in a Name: Intersex and Identity”, was selected for and appears in the college textbook, Queer: A Reader for Writers, published this…
Read MoreSpeaking at the APPPAH 19th Congress
I’ll be speaking about the right to genital integrity, as it relates to intersex people, this Friday, December 4th, at the Association For Prenatal And…
Read MoreKeynote Presentation at Intersex Solidarity Days in Vienna!
I’m excited to be invited by VIMO (aka OII Austria) and Platform Intersex Austria (PIA), to present at the Intersex Solidarity Days Conference…
Read MoreOMG, the U.S. Gov’t finally has to deal with the fact that intersex folks exist!
Wow. I ever thought i’d see the day that intersex people were on the brinkl of being legally recognized by the U.S. gov’t! As if…
Read MoreQuoted in Great Buzzfeed Article
“I feel compelled to let the public know that you can grow up intersex and be perfectly fine and happy,” said Hida Viloria,…
Read MoreHow Intersex People Identify
Co-authored by Dana Zzyym. Much has been said recently, on the heels of all the media attention on Caitlin Jenner and Rachel Dolezal, about the…
Read MoreMom, I did it: my book’s going to be published!
Some folks have written to ask why I haven’t had any posts on my blog Intersex and Out for so long, so I thought…
Read MoreSpeaking in SF this Friday, June 5th, for Pride Month! 🙂
I’m thrilled to join Joe Wenke, author of The Human Agenda: Conversations about Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity, and my fellow contributors Gisele Alicia (model, Barney’s Brothers…
Read MoreEssay to be published by Oxford U Press this December!
Can’t say how thrilled I am that my May, 2014 essay “What’s in a Name: Intersex and Identity” (originally published here for my blog, Intersex…
Read MoreInterview in VICE about intersex victory in Malta
Psyched that I asked the US gov’t to ban Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM) here in the U.S. — as the Maltese government did there last…
Read MoreKeynote in Madrid — an honor & my 1st presentation in Spanish!
I gave a Keynote presentation, my first talk in Spanish, on March 23rd at the 10th International Workshop in Science, Technology & Gender (X Workshop…
Read MoreMy interview in fab GENDER TALENTS web project
I was interviewed for <em>Gender Talents</em>, a fantastic web-based project by artist Carlos Motta that engages movements and discourses for gender self-determination within trans and…
Read MoreMy interview in The Human Agenda: Conversations about Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
I am interviewed in the fantastic new book The Human Agenda: Conversations about Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (February 5, 2015), by author…
Read MorePost-Aljazeera, intersex athletes, & letting Dutee run!
So I showed my Aljazeera interview to the lovely woman I’m dating this morning, and it left me with some thoughts to share. The interview…
Read MorePre-Aljazeera Thoughts on Fashionable Bigotry
I’m going to be on Aljazeera today — soon, in fact — talking about the sports policies against intersex woman with hyperandrogenism (high testosterone levels). Much more…
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