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This chapter discusses the history of the intersex movement and the development of its goals and strategies. The intersex activist movement was born in 1993, when the Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) was formed by Bo Laurent (formerly known as Cheryl Chase). ISNA had two goals: to provide a support network for people with an intersex condition and to develop strategies to challenge the traditional medical protocol for the treatment of infants born with this condition. Accomplishments by women's health movements and patient health movements also helped the intersex movement develop a framework for advancing its medical goals. This chapter considers the growth of the intersex movement, in part by forming alliances with physicians, and the debate over whether to abandon the term “intersex” in favor of “disorders of sex development.”

This chapter discusses the history of the intersex movement and the development of its goals and strategies. The intersex activist movement was born in 1993, when the Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) was formed by Bo Laurent (formerly known as Cheryl Chase). ISNA had two goals: to provide a support network for people with an intersex condition and to develop strategies to challenge the traditional medical protocol for the treatment of infants born with this condition. Accomplishments by women's health movements and patient health movements also helped the intersex movement develop a framework for advancing its medical goals. This chapter considers the growth of the intersex movement, in part by forming alliances with physicians, and the debate over whether to abandon the term “intersex” in favor of “disorders of sex development.”

Chapter 1 examines Latina/o encounters with and reclamations of indigeneity from the eighteenth century to the present. Deploying violentologies as a heuristic device and hermeneutic prism, it focuses on established and emergent Latina/o autobiographical literary genres, cinematic texts, performative popular culture spectacles, and recently recovered archival materials and unique oral histories. These texts cumulatively reveal the wide spectrum of Latina/o antipathies toward, and affiliations with, Native nations and indigenous peoples in the United States and abroad. This chapter thus foregrounds the ideological diversity of supra-Latina/o violentologies by examining the myriad Latina/o involvements in the US Indian Wars vis-à-vis ambidextrous, albeit ambivalent, Latina/o neoindigenous, as well as problematic indigenist, performances of XicanIndia/o and LatIndia/o modalities, in addition to mixed-heritage, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and nonbinary (LGBTQI+), as well as Two-Spirit warrior paradigms in Indian Country and elsewhere.