Ins A Kromminga started to become an activist in 2000, when ze realized about being intersex and the social implications connected to this reality. Around that time Ins began with the personal web-project GFN_GenderFreeNation while moving into a very queer community in New Orleans, LA, U.S.A.
While finishing a Masters Degree at Tulane University in Fine Art (M.F.A.) Ins was active in the local activist and artist community of the Marigny-Bywater neighborhoods in New Orleans, before moving to Berlin in Summer 2003.
There Ins joined the working groups for networking and for consulting and training (focus on intersex issues) of the Transgender Network Berlin (TGNB).
In 2004 Ins co-founded the exhibition-and archive project "1-0-1 [one ó one] intersex - the 2-sex/gender-system as a human rights violation" http://www.101intersex.de/ which was a very successful exhibition at the NGBK Berlin (New Society of Visual Art) in summer 2005.
Also 2004 ze co-founded the action-group TransInterGenderSex (TIGS) based on a workshop Ins gave at the German Transgender conference 2004 (together with Nanna Lüth). This group still comes together for demonstrations, public actions and disturbances.
Ins is also the co-founder and an Editorial Board Member of the online journal LIMINALIS and a co-founder of the Berlin-based Transgender Radio.
After long discussions and a difficult time for "non-norm"-members of parts of the queer (gay and lesbian) community in Berlin, there was the need and wish for a space - specifically for trans* inter* and queer people - so in 2006 Ins and many other activists founded the non-profit organization TransInterQueer e.V. (TrIQ) - Ins is a board member since the foundation of TrIQ.
Ins was invited to various conferences as a lecturer or for giving workshops on intersex politics, and participates with other intersex people in the annual ethics seminars held by Dr. Ulrike Klöppel at the Charité Berlin, to speak with medical students.
Even though living as an intersexed transgender queer, Ins identifies as a human being (possibly earthling) and considers the question of sex as overestimated.
Ins A Kromminga, Sprecher_in für OII-Deutschland
Ins A Kromminga, Spokesperson for OII-Germany
