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
Long Live Grace: Happy Birthday & Thanks to a Genderqueer Pioneer!
“The future is no sex.” — Grace Jones Countless people, including myself, have been deeply saddened by the loss of icons David Bowie and Prince […]
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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 […]
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Presenting 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: […]
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A 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 […]
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Published 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 […]
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Speaking 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 […]
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Keynote 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 […]
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OMG, 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 […]
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Quoted 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, […]
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How 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 […]
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Speaking to Stanford students, about love
My mind has been spinning non-stop this past week, swirling in the aftermath and analysis of hate. We have witnessed so many innocent […]
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Mom, 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 […]
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Speaking 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 […]
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Essay 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 […]
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Interview 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 […]
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Two talks in Barcelona!
I am deeply grateful to fantastic allies Professors Joan Pujol Tarrés, PhD, and Marisela Montenegro, PhD, of the Department of Social Psychology (Departament de Psicologia […]
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Keynote 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 […]
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My 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 […]
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My 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 […]
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Post-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 […]
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