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I think one of the most important things I’ve learned from reading this material is that there are SO many different varieties of the intersex experience, and intersex as an embodiment. I wonder how you approach this as an activist, since you are working with “a term than encompasses at least 30 different conditions”. I feel like that must always be a challenge as an activist - to speak out of a personal experience and an individual standpoint, but also try to change the way an entire group in society is treated and discussed.

Cal in Middlesex claims to be apolitical, and the term ‘activist’ suggests that you are more explicitly political, but it does seem like you and Cal are engaged in a similar project – telling your own story to help others understand. 

I had a second question, which someone already sort of asked, but I wondered what you meant specifically when you said that the women in the Oprah audience "got it" - how did they 'get it'? what does it mean to 'get it'?