Bonnie Hart

Hart describes how she was told she experienced "heteronormative sexual training from a really early age", through multiple intersex medical interventions. Despite giving consent as a child, she felt unaware of the lifelong implications.{{Cite web| last = Copland| first = Simon| title = The medical community's approach to intersex people is still primarily focused on 'normalising' surgeries| work = SBS| date = 15 December 2016| accessdate = 19 January 2017| url = http://www.sbs.com.au/topics/sexuality/agenda/article/2016/12/15/medical-communitys-approach-intersex-people-still-primarily-focused-normalising| archive-date = 31 January 2017| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170131201328/http://www.sbs.com.au/topics/sexuality/agenda/article/2016/12/15/medical-communitys-approach-intersex-people-still-primarily-focused-normalising| url-status = dead}} Hart describes how stigma "sets the scene" for such interventions, "There’s a fear that people will be maladjusted because their bodies are different, and that fear teamed with the ignorance of the realities of what it’s like to live as an adult with those bodies without surgery, kind of perpetuates a surgical intervention process". Growing up, Hart did not know that her sister, Phoebe Hart, also had androgen insensitivity syndrome.{{Cite news| last = Graham| first = Liz| title = I'm proud to be a hermaphrodite| work = body+soul| date = 2 February 2012| url = http://www.bodyandsoul.com.au/sex+relationships/wellbeing/im+proud+to+be+a+hermaphrodite,16555}}

Hart is a "high-energy avant-garde performer" and multidisciplinary artist, assembling digital and analog filmmaking, music, and visual art.{{cite web | url = http://www.ventinggallery.com/bonnie-hart-bio/ | title = Bonnie Hart Bio | work = Venting Gallery | accessdate = 19 January 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170131200234/http://www.ventinggallery.com/bonnie-hart-bio/ | archive-date = 31 January 2017 | url-status = dead }} She is a cofounder of Venting Gallery and the Foundation for Contemporary Music and Culturehttp://fcmc.org.au/ in Brisbane, Queensland, and performs with bands including X-wave and the Unaustralians.{{cite web | url = http://www.collapseboard.com/reviews/live-reviews/the-audio-pollen-social-club-199-boundary-street-west-end-brisbane-10-02-13/ | title = The Audio Pollen Social Club @ 199 Boundary Street, West End, Brisbane, 10.02.13 | work = Collapse Board | date = 26 February 2013}} In the autobiographical documentary Orchids, My Intersex Adventure, Hart and her sister face the traumatic emotional scars from early operations and the secrecy associated with them.{{cite web | work = ATOM Awards | url = http://www.firsthandfilms.com/index.php?film=1000334 | title = First Hand Films 'Interview with Phoebe Hart'' | location = Melbourne, Australia | accessdate = 26 October 2010}}{{cite web | work = Orchids, My Intersex Adventure | url = http://www.orchids-themovie.com/synopsis.html | title = Film Synopsis | date = 3 October 2010 | accessdate = 26 October 2010}}

Hart is president of Intersex Peer Support Australia.{{cite web | url = http://aissga.org.au | title = What's new with the AISSG Australia? | work = Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group Australia}} She has appeared in numerous short videos, including for QLife and the National LGBTI Health Alliance,{{cite web | url = https://oii.org.au/28856/bonnie-qlife/ | title = Bonnie Hart talks about intersex | work = Organisation Intersex International Australia | date = 27 May 2015}} and SBS.{{Cite news| last = Chaleyer| first = Rani| title = Intersex: the I in LGBTI| work = SBS The Feed| date = 10 March 2015| url = http://www.sbs.com.au/news/thefeed/story/intersex-i-lgbti| access-date = 20 January 2017| archive-date = 5 July 2015| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150705044518/http://www.sbs.com.au/news/thefeed/story/intersex-i-lgbti| url-status = dead}}{{Cite news| last = Carpenter| first = Morgan| authorlink = Morgan Carpenter | title = Comment: 'Curing' intersex is damaging and common| work = SBS The Feed | date = 16 March 2015 | url = http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/03/16/comment-curing-intersex-damaging-and-common}} and is widely interviewed,{{Cite news| last = Busby| first = Cec| title = Intersex advocates address findings of Senate Committee into involuntary sterilisation| work = Gay News Network| date = 28 October 2013| url = http://gaynewsnetwork.com.au/news/intersex-advocates-address-findings-of-senate-committee-into-involuntary-sterilisation-12237.html| access-date = 20 January 2017| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160115130147/http://gaynewsnetwork.com.au/news/intersex-advocates-address-findings-of-senate-committee-into-involuntary-sterilisation-12237.html| archive-date = 15 January 2016| url-status = dead}}{{cite web | url = http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/national-news/new-south-wales-news/senate-committee-wants-end-to-intersex-sterilisation/111708 | title = Senate Committee wants end to intersex sterilisation | publisher = Star Observer | date = 29 October 2013 | access-date = 16 May 2016 }} including on national television.{{cite web| url = http://www.abc.net.au/rampup/articles/2011/06/24/3252808.htm | title = Intersex conditions; a social paradox | first = Anthea | last = Skinner | work = Australian Broadcasting Corporation Ramp Up | date = 24 June 2011}}

• {{Cite book| publisher = Open Book Publishers| isbn = 978-1-78374-208-0| last1 = Jones| first1 = Tiffany| last2 = Hart| first2 = Bonnie| last3 = Carpenter| first3 = Morgan| last4 = Ansara| first4 = Gavi| last5 = Leonard| first5 = William| last6 = Lucke| first6 = Jayne| title = Intersex: Stories and Statistics from Australia| location = Cambridge, UK| date = 2016| accessdate = 2 February 2016| url = http://oii.org.au/wp-content/uploads/key/Intersex-Stories-Statistics-Australia.pdf| url-status = dead| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160914152729/http://oii.org.au/wp-content/uploads/key/Intersex-Stories-Statistics-Australia.pdf| archivedate = 14 September 2016| df = dmy-all}}

In 2016, Australia's Gay News Network included Hart in their "LGBTI people to watch in 2017".{{cite web | url = http://gaynewsnetwork.com.au/feature/25-lgbti-australians-to-watch-in-2017-22588.html | title = 25 LGBTI people to watch in 2017 | last = Domingo | first = Reg | work = Gay News Network | date = 9 December 2016 | accessdate = 19 January 2017 | archive-date = 1 March 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170301173127/http://gaynewsnetwork.com.au/feature/25-lgbti-australians-to-watch-in-2017-22588.html | url-status = dead }}

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