Education
Sonoma State University — M.A. Organization Development (August 2008)
Hiroshima University — Ministry of Education and Culture Visiting Scholar, Computer Graphics, 1986
Middlebury College Intensive Summer Language Institute — Japanese language study, summer 1985-6
Harvard University (extension) — Japanese language study, 1984-5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — S.B. Mathematics, 1983
Published works in English and in Japanese
Note: I have published under several names, including Bo Laurent, Cheryl Chase, and Bonnie Sullivan.
Book Chapters
Chase, Cheryl. 2006. ‘Cultural Practice’ or ‘Reconstructive Surgery’? US Genital Cutting, the Intersex Movement, and Medical Double Standards. In N. Ehrenreich (Ed.), Reproductive Rights: A Critical Reader. New York: New York University Press. Republished from 2002 Genital Cutting and Transnational Sisterhood: Disputing US Polemics (pp. 126-151). Champaign: University of Illinois Press, edited by C. Robertson & S. M. James.
Hegarty, Peter, & Chase, Cheryl. 2004. Intersex Activism, Feminism and Psychology. In I. Morland & A. Willox (Eds.), Queer Theory (pp. 70-80). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Republished from 2000 Feminism & Psychology, 10, 117-132.
Laurent, Bo. 2003. Intersexuality–A Plea for Honesty and Emotional Support. In W. L. Williams & Y. Retter (Eds.), Gay and Lesbian Rights in the United States: A Documentary History (Primary Documents in American History and Contemporary Issues). Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. Republished from 1995 Association for Humanistic Psychology Perspective, p. 8.
Chase, Cheryl. 1999. Surgical progress is not the answer to intersexuality. In Intersex in the Age of Ethics, edited by A. D. Dreger. Hagerstown, Maryland: University Publishing Group. Republished from 1998 Journal of Clinical Ethics 9 (4):385-92.
Weinberg, Martin, C.J. Williams, and B. Laurent. 1998. Medicalizing and Demedicalizing Hermaphroditism. In Deviance: The Interactionist Perspective, edited by E. Rubington and M.S. Weinberg. Needham Heights, Massachusetts: Allyn & Bacon.
Chase, Cheryl. 2007. Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism. In M. Himley & A. Fitzsimmons (Eds.), Making Critical Space: A Reader. Syracuse: Longman Publishing Group. Republished from 1998 GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, 4(2), 189-211.
Films
Chase, Cheryl (producer). 2002. The Child with an Intersex Condition: Total Patient Care. Rohnert Park: Intersex Society of North America (20 minutes, directed by Phyllis Ward).
Chase, Cheryl. 1997. Hermaphrodites Speak! Rohnert Park: Intersex Society of North America. (30 minutes).
National Media Appearances
New York Times Sunday Magazine, September 24, 2006.
New York Times, June 2, 2003.
Discovery Channel, March 26, 2000.
NPR Fresh Air, December 11, 1997.
NPR All Things Considered, November 28, 1997.
NBC Dateline, June 17, 1997.
New York Times, May 13, 1997.
New York Times Week in Review, February 4, 1996.
Work Groups
“Intersexuality and Human Identity,” presentation at the Enhancement Technologies Group, Berkeley, California, March 27-28, 1999.
Work group member, “The NICHD Research Planning Workshop on Intersex,” sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Office of Rare Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Tempe, Arizona, May 19-20, 2002 (resulted in publication of “Conference Proceedings: Research on Intersex–Summary of a Planning Workshop,” The Endocrinologist 14 (2):59-69.
“Where’s the ‘I’ in Intersex,” presentation at the Surgically Shaping Children workgroup, Hastings Center for Bioethics, Hastings, New York, September, 2002.
Work group member, “Intersex Consensus Conference,” sponsored by Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society and European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology, Chicago, October, 2005 (resulted in publication of “Consensus statement on management of intersex disorders.” Pediatrics (2006) 118(2): e488-500, by Lee, P. A., C.P. Houk, et al.)
Amicus Brief
Amicus Curiae submitted by invitation to Corte Constitucional of Colombia, regarding genital surgery contemplated on a six year old child, February 7, 1998. Cited in a pair of decisions in 1999 significantly limiting right to surgically alter genitalia of intersexed children.
Articles
Dreger, Alice, Chase, Cheryl, Sousa, Aron, Gruppuso, Philip, & Frader, Joel. 2005. Changing the Nomenclature/Taxonomy for Intersex: A Scientific and Clinical Rationale. Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism.
Chase, Cheryl. 2003. What is the Agenda of the Intersex Patient Advocacy Movement? The Endocrinologist 13 (3):240-2.
Chase, Cheryl. (ed). 1994-2003. Hermaphrodites with Attitude, newsletter of the Intersex Society of North America.
Chase, Cheryl. 1999. Rethinking treatment for ambiguous genitalia. Pediatric Nursing 25 (4):451-5.
Chase, Cheryl. 1998. Affronting Reason. In Looking Queer: Image and identity in lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgendered communities, edited by D. Atkins. Binghamton New York: Haworth.
Chase, Cheryl. 1997. Making Media: An Intersex Perspective. GLAAD Images, Fall, 22-25.
Chase, Cheryl. (ed). 1997. Special issue on intersexuality. Chrysalis: The Journal of Transgressive Gender Identities, Fall/Winter.
Chase, Cheryl. 1996. Re: Measurement of Pudendal Evoked Potentials during Feminizing Genitoplasty: Techniques and Applications (letter). Journal of Urology 156 (3):1139-1140.
Conferences Organized
Laurent, Bo. (Ed.). 2006. DSD Symposium 2006 Proceedings. San Francisco: Intersex Society of North America.
Program Chair, DSD Symposium 2006, San Francisco, California, October 13-14, 2006.
Articles in Japanese, translated from Japanese, or appearing in Japanese publications
Ohta, Naohisa. 1994. Packet Video: Modeling and Signal Processing. Norwood MA: Artech House. (Translated into English from Japanese by Bonnie Sullivan)
Sullivan, Bo. 1992. Hardware Supported Debugging and Performance Monitoring with NoPain. In Computer Images and Hi-Vision CG ‘92. Tokyo: Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences.
Upstill, Steve. 1991. 実践 CG への誘い. Authorized Japanese translation of Pixar’s The RenderMan Companion (Addison-Wesley). Tokyo: Kyoritsu Shuppan. (Translated into Japanese from English by B. Sullivan and Teruzo Hanmyo.)
Sullivan, Bo. 1989. X ウインドー・システム入門 (Introduction to the X Window System, in Japanese). Interface, December.
Awards
Felipa de Souza Human Rights Award, International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, 2000.
Certificate of Recognition for leadership and commitment as a champion for the needs of people living with intersex conditions, California Legislature Assembly, October 2, 2004.
Presentations
“Why a Focus on Surgery Won’t Improve Healthcare for People and Families Affected by Disorders of Sex Development,” keynote at Genital Cutting in a Globalized Age: A Forum for Interdisciplinary Debate, London, United Kingdom, July 8, 2008.
“Building Partnerships and Breaking Stigma: Advocacy-driven Research (panel discussion with patient advocates and physician-scientists)” at 13th Annual Langfitt Symposium at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, April 10, 2008.
“Intersexuality Care in a State of Flux,” presentation with David Sandberg and Nabil El-Ghoroury at annual meeting of American Psychological Association, San Francisco, California, August, 2007.
“Disorders of Sex Development 101,” presented at annual meeting of the Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group, Raleigh, North Carolina, July 2007.
“New Standard of Care for Management of Disorders of Sex Development,” plenary presentation with Katrina Karkazis, Elizabeth McCauley, and Jane Goto at annual meeting of Pediatric Endocrine Nursing Association, Portland, Oregon, April 24, 2007.
“Advocacy Perspective on Chicago Consensus Statement,” presentation at DSD Symposium 2006, San Franciso, California, October 13, 2006.
“Update: Medical Management of Disorders of Sex Development, Grand Rounds presentation at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona, May 1, 2006.
“Patient Centered Care for Disorders of Sex Development,” presentation at Illinois Genetics Task Force, Chicago, Illinois, April 29, 2006.
“Disorders of Sex Development,” Grand Rounds presentation in pediatric psychiatry, University of California at San Francisco Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, April 2006.
“Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the Management of Disorders of Sex Differentiation,” Grand Rounds presentation with Katrina Karkazis and Kupper Wintergerst at Stanford University, February 9, 2006.
“New Guidelines for Clinicians and Parents,” presentation with Katrina Karkazis to Pediatric Endocrinology Department, Stanford University Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, January 31, 2006.
“New Guidelines for Clinicians and Parents,” presentation at University of California San Francisco Children’s Hospital, January 25, 2006.
“New Guidelines for Clinicians and Parents,” presentation with Jeanne Nollman to regional Pediatric Endocrine heads, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, California, December 5, 2005.
“Intersex Healthcare Reform: News from the Front,” presentation with Marcus Arana and Peter Trinkl at Creating Change, Oakland, California, November, 2005.
“Integrating Intersex Health Into the LGBT Health Movement,” plenary presentation with Emi Koyama and Vernon Rosario at LGBTI Health Summit, Boulder, Colorado, August 22, 2005.
“Clinical Guidelines for Management of Disorders of Sex Differentiation, plenary presentation at Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, Montreal, Canada, 2005.
“Intersex Healthcare Reform: News from the Front,” presentation at LGBTI Health Summit, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August, 2004.
Testimony before San Francisco Human Rights Commission Investigation into Normalizing Genital Surgeries, San Francisco, California, July, 2004.
“Intersex health and patient-centered care,” presentation with Vernon Rosario at University of Southern Californa, November 17, 2003.
“First Stop the Harm: Intersex in the 21st Century,” presentation with Janet Green and Betsy Driver, Creating Change conference, Portland, Oregon, November, 2002.
“Power Tools: Use Technology to Triple Your Income and Build a Worldwide Movement,” workshop with Robin Mathias, Creating Change conference, Portland, Oregon, November, 2002.
“Why should PFLAG care about intersex,” presentation with Jean Helms and Char Hmurovich at PFLAG National Conference, Columbus, Ohio, September, 2002.
“Is Intersexuality a Disability? Convergence, Divergence, and Alliance Between Intersex Rights and Disability Rights Movements,” panel with Emi Koyama and Diana Courvant, Disability and Queerness Conference, San Francisco, California, June 3, 2002.
“What is the agenda of the intersex patient advocacy movement?” presented at First World Congress: Hormonal and Genetic Basis of Sexual Differentiation Disorders, Tempe Arizona, May 17-18 2002 (and published in The Endocrinologist 13 (3):240-2).
“Intersex: Ethical Principles of Management,” presentation at Bioethical Considerations in Human Research, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Clearwater, Florida, March 9, 2002.
“Why Intersex is Not About Gender,” presented at Persistence of Gender, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, February 8, 2002.
“Intersex 101,” workshop presented with Angela Moreno, Lynnell Stephani Long, Max Beck, and Robin Mathias, at Creating Change, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 10, 2001.
“Born Queer: Intersex Issues,” plenary at Creating Change conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 10, 2001.
“Intersex: Ethical Principles of Management,” plenary presentation at Pediatric Endocrine Association for Research and Learning (PEARL), Vancouver, Canada, October 12, 2001.
“Bioethics and Activism,” presentation at American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Nashville, Tennessee, October 2001.
“Whose Genitals Are They Anyway? Paradigm Shift in Medical Management of Intersexuality,” plenary presentation at Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2001.
“Hermaphrodites Speak!” Director’s presentation at Netherlands Transgender Film Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October, 2001.
“Clinical Implications of the Revolution in Intersexed and Transgendered Identities” (discussant), symposium at American Psychological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, California, August 2001.
“Paradigm Shift in Management of Sexual Ambiguity: Whose Body is It Anyway?” Grand Rounds presentation at Children’s Hospital of Oakland, August 2001.
“Intersexuality as a Human Rights Issue,” presentation with Jorge Daaboul, Lillia Portilla, and Lisset Barcellos, International Lesbian and Gay Association, Oakland, California, August, 2001.
“Sexual Ambiguity: A Paradigm Shift,” presentation at University of Michigan Pediatric Endocrine Clinical Group, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2001.
“Paradigm Shift in Intersex: Psychiatry’s Role,” Group for Advancement of Psychiatry, April 20, 2001.
"Love With A Ruler: Intersexuality and Social Justice," presentation at University of Colorado at Boulder, October 19 and 20, 2000.
“Intersex Bodies Challenge Sex as a Natural Category,” presentation at American Studies Association, Detroit, Michigan, October 2000.
“The Patient-Advocate’s View,” presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, May 19, 2000.
“Intersexual Genital Condition in Infants,” presentation with Randy Howe and Hale Hawbecker at Biomedical Ethics Symposium, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, May 10, 2000.
“Medical Care for Intersex: A Patient-Centered Approach,” plenary presentation at Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society, Boston, Massachusetts, May, 2000.
Panel presentation on intersex medical issues with Alice Dreger and David Hatch at Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, April 24, 2000.
“On Naming Things: Philosophy as a Tool for Real-World Activism,” presentation at American Philosophical Association Midwest, Chicago, Illinois, April 2000.
“Intersex Issues: The Ethics of Gender Assignment for Infants with Ambiguous Genitalia, Informed Consent and Issues Faced by Intersex Adults,” Grand Rounds presentation at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, January 31, 2000.
Presidential panel on intersex issues at International Academy for Sex Research, Stonypoint, New York, June 1999.
“Intersex in Theory, Practice, and Life,” presentation with Alice Dreger at the Illinois School for Professional Psychology, April 20, 1999.
“Changing Intersex Treatment,” presentation with Alice Dreger to the Pediatric Endocrinology team of Chicago Memorial Children’s Hospital, April 19, 1999.
“Intersexuality: Evolving Thoughts on Therapy,” Grand Rounds presentation at University of California at Los Angeles Neuropsychiatric Institute, April 6, 1999.
Workshop on healthcare for intersex children, at Division of Pediatric Endocrinology of the Department of Pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College, March 24, 1999.
“‘Hermaphrodites Speak!’ Video Oral Histories as a Means of Peer Support and Patient Advocacy,” presentation at Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1999.
“Constructing Community in Cyberspace,” presentation with Mary Williamson, Andrew Glassner, Margaret McLaughlin, and Marc Smith at Computer Human Interaction conference, Los Angeles, California, April 1998.
“Intersex Awakening: Beyond Shame and Silence,” presentation at Society for Sex Therapy and Research, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March, 1998.
“Intersex Awakening: Beyond Shame and Silence,” presentation at National Lesbian and Gay Health Association, 1998.
“Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Social Justice Through Media Activism,” presentation at Society for Scientific Study of Sexuality, Los Angeles, California, 1998.
“Listening to Hermaphrodites: Historical and Ethical Problems in the Medical Treatment of Intersexuality,” joint meeting of the American Association of Bioethics, the Society for Bioethics Consultation, and the Society for Health and Human Values, Baltimore, November 7, 1997 (contributed paper/workshop with Alice Dreger and Jorge Daaboul).
“Genital Surgery in Intersexuals: Functional Outcomes,” presentation at American Psychiatric Association, San Diego, California,1997.
“Hermaphrodism: Challenging Current Practice,” presentation with Bruce Filmer at Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, Montreal, Canada, 1996.
“Medical Management of Hermaphroditic Children: Enforcing the Gender Dichotomy,” presentation at International Congress on Gender and Sexual Issues, University of California at Riverside, 1995.