On one level, Intersex in Film is just what it sounds like. The site is a consideration of intersexuality (the condition of being between male and female in regards to sexual anatomy) in movies and television. As this project unfolds, however, I see it as an exercise in test tube scholarship—an ongoing consideration of the intersex experience and body taking into account the work of scholars, the reception of film spectators and reviewers, and finally the perspectives of intersex individuals. The broad goals of this project are to consider the depiction of intersex characters in film and their relationships to historical stereotypes. As an online work, I hope to offer resources for mapping popular and academic discourse as well as offering a forum for scholars, film lovers, and intersex individuals to discuss these representations. The bottom line: how and why are intersex characters and experiences treated in film?
IF arises out of current work I have been pursuing on the topic of “sexile” in literature of the Americas. Studies in sexile examine sexual minorities’ experiences of alienation in relation to their gender and sexual identities. Upon encountering the films “XXY” and “Spork” in a matter of weeks, my interests turned to the theme of embodied alienation in these works and, more broadly, to filmic depictions of intersexuality.
As IF takes shape, it’s significant to note the genesis of this project, which is the product of an immersive course on the future of scholarly communication with Professor Richard Miller at Rutgers University. I am also indebted to Cinema Studies Faculty at Rutgers Susan Martin-Marquez and Derek Schilling for their early-stage feedback and Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel in the Program of Comparative Literature for my introduction Sexile Studies.
Intersex in Film 
The site is really lovely. Does this project have a historicist dimension? I was wondering when these films were released and what if any preliminary boundaries there are to your research. Will Tiresias show up?
A lot of histocist work has been done (particularly by Dreger), so I see figures like Tiresias and Hermaphroditus as key to a post I’m planning on cultural memory and stereotype (two after this one). The parameters I’ve set for now are limited to a set of three films from the past decade 2006-2010 as they’re what I’m familiar with now and share commonalities in their coming-of-age protagonists.