Intersex Day of Remembrance
Intersex Day of Remembrance is held on November 8. This event in the first decade of the month November is annual. Help us
It 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.
In 2012, the New South Wales Parliament acknowledged the day. Linda Burney, a Member of the Legislative Assembly, also commended Organisation Intersex International Australia as part of a motion noting the day.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
Gustavus Adolphus Day in Sweden on November 6 (death of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and official flag day);
Remembrance Sunday in United Kingdom on November 10 (Celebrated on the second Sunday in November);