YOUth&I

An intersex youth anthology

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Issue 4

Text reads 'Youth and I Issue 4' in purple font. The cover is yellow. The page is filled with a hand outstretch, with stems and leaves growing from each finger.


This issue’s theme, Grow, captures this idea of learning and change. Learning about who we are, that other people like us exist, and learning from our experiences and those of intersex people around us to help us grow in new ways…We take back our agency and create our own futures.

Steph Lum, YOUth&I Issue 4 foreword
Text reads 'Youth and I Issue 4' in purple font. The cover is yellow. The page is filled with a hand outstretch, with stems and leaves growing from each finger.
Foreword
YOUth&I
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blurred image of a ballerina spinning in white against a black background
The Ballerine, the Poet and the Curtain
M. Hill
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A lino print of a stylised creature with a range of sex characteristics, and the words ‘ira tangata’ above
Ko Ira Tangata Tēnei Taniwha – This Taniwha is Intersex
Tobias Kenny
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Big tree bathed in golden light with extensive tree roots above the ground
Untangling
Max Aurora
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A vibrantly coloured heart with a solidarity fist in the middle. The colours are of a rainbow. The outline of the heart is purple and yellow, denoting intersex colours. The outline of the fist is pink and light blue, denoting trans colours.
H.U.M.A.N
Juniper Fox
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red fire burns against black background
Crecer: Sin etiquetas
IR-Is
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red fire burns against black background
Growing: Without labels
IR-Is
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black and white photo of a hand holding a triangle mirror. The reflection is of a man's face looking solemn
Joy is a new dress I haven't had the courage to put on yet
ITSH
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A pencil drawing of the word ‘GROW’ in capital letters in blue. Growing out of the letters are five different sunflowers with different emotions on their faces – unsure, happy, angry, crying with laughter, and sad. Next to it is a young girl smiling. She has long brown hair and wears a yellow shirt with the words ‘through emotions’. To her side, under the word ‘Grow’ is a green vine with red flowers growing out of it.
Grow through emotions
Ciara
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A pencil drawing of a person with their back to us waving an intersex flag with both hands. The person is wearing a pink singlet with the words ‘Gender is over’ on the back, and a long black skirt. Next to the intersex flag, which is yellow and a purple circle in the middle, are the words ‘The existence of intersex people is proof that nature doesn’t see gender as a binary – Dr Colette Lord’. The background of the image is blocks of colours in fluid lines across the page running vertically, from left to right: orange, light blue, green, red, navy blue, black and white.
Gender is over
Ranzie Orcena
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photo of a hand reaching out in darkness with a dim light off to the side
Me falta un cromosoma, me sobran ganas de vivir
Marel
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photo of a hand reaching out in darkness with a dim light off to the side
I'm missing a chromosome, but I have plenty of desire to live
Marel
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A collage image of different photos cut out. It contains photo images of the author, Kon Zer. In one image she is sitting, in another she is holding a purple shirt that says in yellow the word ‘intersexy’. The main image is a cut out photo of Kon Zer’s hand holding a daffodil. There are also purple and yellow balloons in the top right corner. Over the collage is a white line drawing in a mandala style.
Together we bloom
Kon Zer
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A pencil drawing of two lego figurines playing soccer. They are facing each other with a leg sticking out and touching a red soccer ball in the middle of the image with the word ‘Lego’ on it. The figurine players are speaking in Spanish. Translated, figure one says: I’ve played soccer and LEGO all my life, I can’t miss. Figure two says: I’m the best at this, ahhh!
Fut - Lego mis favoritos / Soccer - Lego my favourites
Vanessy
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The image is of an intersex flag made out of yellow paper and with purple shiny paper stuck on to form a circle in the middle.
My intersex flag
Nico
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orange flower on a tree twig
Inusual
Free
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orange flower on a tree twig
Unusual
Free
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An oil painting of two people standing and embracing each other naked. The colours of the people and the background are a mix of different greens, yellows, blues and purples.
Crecer juntos / Growing together
Ayito
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A black and white line drawing of a person from the torso up. The background is coloured in messily in pink and light blue lines. The person has short hair, shaved on the side. One side of their chest has a yellow heart with a purple circle on it covering the nipple.
Existen personas Intersex, que también son trans / There are intersex people who are also trans
Ayito
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Two orange flowers contrasted against a grey wall
From Shubhra to Noor-Alom: My Journey of Resilience and Empowerment
Noor Alom
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black and white photo of a sad girl sitting alone next to a train window
Crecer
Azucena
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black and white photo of a sad girl sitting alone next to a train window
Growing up
Azucena
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neon coloured lines running horizontally down the image, red and blue lines on the left, and just blue lines
I n b e t w e e n
Juniper Fox
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A landscape photo of a person’s face looking straight at the camera. The photo is cut off just below their eyes and just under their neck. You can see the bottom of their nose, their mouth in a neutral position and their chin with short black hairs. Their ears have multiple silver loop earrings. You can see the top of a tattoo on the chest but cannot identify what it is of.
Surviving
Mel Kurutta
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A portrait photo of a person’s hairy leg, from the middle of their thigh to above the ankle. They are standing in a field of yellow and purple flowers.
Healing
Mel Kurutta
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A landscape photo of a person lying on grass. The photo is cut off just above their chin and just below their chest. Their arms are spread out but the photo is cut off at their upper arms and reveals hairy armpits. You can identify a tattoo on the upper part of their chest. It is apparent this photo is of the same person as the previous two photos. Across their chest, the image has been manipulated to censure the subject’s breasts by saturating the photo so it is bright white over the body and neon colours over the grass.
Censurable
Mel Kurutta
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black and white winged butterfly hatching
Evolución
Yela
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black and white winged butterfly hatching
Evolution
Yela
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birds flying in the distance, against a light yellow sky
Grow
Lee
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Black and white photo of a small baby's hand holding on to an adult's finger
Baby teeth
ITSH
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An outline of five people in a line holding hands. Connecting them all is a yellow vine with flowers growing out of it.
AO
KaliOtto Etraud
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three pink orange Alstromeria flowers
I find myself in flowers
Mouse
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two yellow winged butterflies on a purple flowering plant
Excerpts from Microrretalos sobre Intersexualidad
MaryRosalinda
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An image in the shape of a person wearing a yellow jumper with the hood up or a cape. There is no face. Where the face should be, it is black and looks like outer space, with small dots of light that are stars and the pinky orange glow of a black hole. Above the person is a halo of neon pink. On the bottom of the person’s cloak by their left sleeve is a small black line outline of a compass (likely representing the author’s connection with the intersex group, Brujula Intersexual, which means the Intersex compass in Spanish).
Crecer / Growing up
A.A
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Sunset with purples, yellows and oranges
Only a dead man should lose hope
Lee
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silhouette of the profile of a man against a yellow orange background
Soliloquio: Fragmentos de un Cuerpo Infinito
Julian
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silhouette of the profile of a man against a yellow orange background
Soliloquy: Fragments of an Infinite Body
Julian
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