Intersex Day of Remembrance
Intersex Day of Remembrance, also known as Intersex Solidarity Day, is an internationally observed civil awareness day designed to highlight issues faced by intersex people. It marks the birthday of Herculine Barbin, a French intersex person whose memoirs were later published by Michel Foucault in Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite.
| Intersex Day of Remembrance | |
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| Also called | Intersex Solidarity Day |
| Observed by | Intersex community |
| Type | International |
| Date | November 8 |
| Next time | November 8, 2024 |
| Frequency | annual |
| First time | November 8, 2005 |
| Related to | Intersex Awareness Day |
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