This collection of creations by other people is part of a series about LGBTQIA creations on itch.io. This collection is about people who have intersex conditions, which are many sorts of naturally occurring differences from conventionally accepted categories of male and female bodies. (This collection is not about sexes that only exist in nonhuman animals or in fantasy stories.) Some people with intersex conditions don't see those as a reason that they are part of the LGBTQIA community, or prefer to say they have a disorder of sex development (DSD). That's okay, that's their choice as individuals. The LGBTQIA community, for its part, nonetheless would do right to make sure that intersex people can feel welcome and included if they want to be, and to have solidarity with one another in our shared struggles for legal rights for equal marriage, bodily autonomy, and health care around the world.
This collection is part of my directory of other people's creations on itch.io, Curated Collections of LGBTQIA, where you can find more collections about other topics. I personally select and review each creation in them, even if they are different than my own views or experiences.
Content: Unrated.
Medium: Zine.
About: As described by the zinester,
"Intersex refers to a vast set of variations in sex characteristics not considered solely 'male' or 'female'. Despite being common, there is still many misconceptions about it and exclusion even in queer communities. This was made with survey answers of numerous intersex and questioning individuals in mind."
Content: Rated PG-13. This talks about some physical conditions in a way similar to what one ought to hear in a high school health class, if only those classes talked about this.
Medium: Zine.
Length: 10 pages.
Genre and subject: Nonfiction.
About: "a compilation of information on various intersex variations, meant to be used as a reference for writing purposes." This is focused on the physical conditions themselves.
Content: Rated G.
Medium and about: These are cards you can print, fill out, and give to businesses and organizations as an easier way to speak up to them about how they are excluding people who are transgender, nonbinary, or intersex.
Content: Rated PG-13. Mentions of sex organs, medical discrimination, misrepresentation, and non-consensual sex reassignment surgeries, all of which are necessary topics when explaining about what intersex means. It doesn't depict or go into graphic detail about any of these.
Medium: Nonfiction zine, designed for being read on a computer screen.
Length: Seven pages. About a ten minute read.
About: An introduction to what intersex means, written by someone who is intersex. This zine is in English, and a French translation is available too.
Vibe: Informative, a touch of humor, some heavy topics.
Content: Unrated. (I haven't been able to buy and read it yet, because the last time I checked, the zinester's account wasn't set up to receive payments.)
Medium: Zine. As described by the author: "14 pages of short writings and doodles."
About: This zine isn't about people with red hair. Instead, as described by the author, this is "A zine about gender and intersex visibility. Sometimes the things that make as unique are very outwardly visible and other times it is not. Our perception of things like gender and identity would be drastically different is there was more visibility for them."
Content: Rated PG. Content warnings for negative self talk and body dysphoria.
Medium: A computer game created with Bitsy. It runs in your web browser.
Duration: About ten minutes. You can see everything in one play through.
About: In this slice of life, explore your home on an ordinary day, thinking about what each thing reminds you of about yourself.
Vibe: The tension between good and bad attitudes about your body.
Content: Rated PG-13. This zine is about the wrongs that society does to intersex people, so some of the things it talks about are non-consensual sex reassignment surgeries and misrepresentation. It doesn't depict or go into graphic detail about any of these.
Medium: Zine. Full color. 10 pages, plus cover. Formatted for reading on screen.
About: A zine on intersex rage. Highly recommended reading. From the author's summary:
"Intersex people are among the lesser-known minorities in the world, even and especially within queer communities. Looking up 'intersex' anywhere gives a 80% chance of getting results completely unrelated to the subject at hands. If intersex folks are ever mentioned, there is a high chance it's in a very superficial 'intersex people exist!' way, that does not dig on any reality of being intersex. Misinformation about intersex people is rampant, and actual intersex voices are rarely ever uplifted to correct that.
"Unfortunately, I cannot be publicly angry about that, because I would like to believe that most people don't mean any ill, and yelling at someone whose only crime is ignorance is kind of a dick move.
"This zine is ten pages of frustrations and rage I am not allowed to express anywhere else."
Vibe: The author notes, "the general tone of this zine is angry and accusatory. If you are looking to educate yourself on intersex people, I will redirect you to this zine, which is much more perisex-friendly."
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A huge set of graphic designs. Flags, banners, stickers, emotes, palettes, and more.
Relevance: It has designs with the intersex pride flag.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: Icon set.
About: These are twenty-two pride flags, in a 32x32 pixel art format, to use in RPG Maker or your other creative projects. It has a plain flag that you can customize.
Relevance: One of the flags that it has is the intersex pride flag.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A computer game that runs in your browser.
Length: A few minutes.
About: A memory game. You try to match cards with pride flags on them. When you match them correctly, the game tells you the name of the flag.
Relevance: One of the flags that it has is the intersex pride flag.
Content: Rated PG.
Medium: Zine. Full color. Designed for reading on screen.
About: "This short, 9-pages zine presents you some design tips so you can make your very own pride flags!"
Relevance: Some of the existing flags shown as examples are the intersex flag and the intersex inclusive progress pride rainbow.
Content: Rated PG-13. This is a personal account that talks about having experienced several sorts of mistreatment that intersex people are often subjected to, particularly as teens. These are neither graphically described nor specifically named, but instead described mainly in terms of what they signified: medicalisation, ostracization, dehumanization, and intrusion.
Medium: Zine.
Genre: Nonfiction. Memoir.
Length: 11 pages.
About: As described by the author,
"A 3k words long text presenting my experience growing up and living as an intersex person. As this is a somewhat faithful retelling of my actual life, it will feature things readers might find upsetting. Proceed at your own discretion."
Recommended reading.
Vibe: Anger at the world's ignorance and discrimination against intersex people, and having been personally wronged by that. The struggle between the need for tact so as to be listened to, and the need to recognize that this anger is right and nothing to be ashamed of.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A set of custom emoji for using on Discord, Mastodon, or other platforms where you can upload your own. Each of the emoji in this set has a cartoon purple penguin holding a heart that has a pride flag design on it.
Relevance: This set includes an intersex flag.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A comic designed for reading on screen. Five pages long.
About: A furry allegory about not coming out.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A coloring book mini zine, designed to be printed and folded from a single piece of paper, for spreading joy and education at queer events.
Relevance: One of the pages in this coloring book is the intersex-inclusive progress pride flag, with each stripe labeled with its intended color and meaning.
Content: Unrated.
Medium: A computer game created with RPG Maker.
About: "A short, turn-based rpg about heping people fight their inner demons... quite literally." One of the tags the creator used for this game is intersex.
Content: Unrated. The creator gave warnings for body dysphoria and self harm.
Medium: A text adventure created with Twine.
About: "A short surreal escape game about getting out of your own body." One of the tags the creator used for this game is intersex.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: "A set of phone wallpapers for pride month! Featuring two charismatic fox species, PLUS a layered .PSD so you can create a version with the flag (or other color scheme) of your choice + your fox OC. You can even replace the fox with a totally different animal :3"
Relevance: This creation has designs derived from the intersex flag.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A custom emoji pack for using on Mastodon, Discord, or Signal. These are cartoon octopi in the colors of various pride flags. There is a blank one that you can fill in with your own colors.
Relevant flags: intersex.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A custom emoji pack for using on Mastodon. Each design has a pigeon holding a heart with a pride flag design on it.
Relevant flags: intersex and the intersex inclusive progress pride rainbow.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: Pixel art pride flags for using in your projects.
Relevant flags: intersex.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: Pixel art icons, for use in Twitch streams and game projects. These designs have the colors of various pride flags, and come in various shapes and sizes.
Relevant flags: The icons in this pack are not labeled with the names of the flags. I see that it has three 18x18 designs with the intersex flag-- in a big heart, a small heart, and a waving flag-- plus the same designs scaled up to 36x36.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: Pixel art heart graphics to use in your Twitch streams.
Relevant flags: intersex.
Content: Rated PG because of how one of the definitions of terms mentions some sex organs.
Medium: A full-color zine, designed to be printed out on a single sheet of paper, cut, and folded. One version is in English, the other version is in Japanese.
About: A tiny zine that gives definitions for what the initialism LGBTQIA stands for, and then a few other relevant words.
Vibe: Cute, cheery, simple.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: Physical game. A bookmark microgame.
About: Print out this bookmark. It is your passport for recording your travel through the diverse world of books. At the top, describe yourself. Below that, there are sections on the bookmark for particular types of authors: banned, indigenous, queer, etc. When your bookmark enters or leaves a book by a particular type of author, stamp that section and write the date.
Relevance: If you do not choose to print a version of the bookmark that uses the least ink, then you can choose from 20 different pride flag backgrounds to represent yourself. One of these is the intersex flag.
Content: Rated PG-13.
Medium: A tiny computer game created in Bitsy. It runs in your web browser.
Duration: You will be able to see everything in one play through, within 15 minutes.
About: Walk through a museum of charts and graphs that show the facts we know about transgender people, debunking some common misconceptions. The web page for this game cites sources for this information.
Relevance: The focus of this is on transgender people, but it talks about intersex people too.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: Custom emoji for the chat software Discord. These are in the shape of characters from the computer game Among Us, each in the colors of a pride flag.
Relevant flags: Intersex.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: Cross stitch patterns for DIY patch kits.
Relevant flags: Intersex. I haven't checked to see if the progress rainbow flag in this set is the intersex inclusive version.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: "A collection of 54 pixel flags from different parts of the world in .png format. With standalone .svg and Inkscape symbols." 16 pixels. Most of these are national flags.
Relevant pride flags: intersex.
