What happens when a teenage girl hits puberty, drops a testicle, grows a penis, develops breasts, gets a period and tells no one? What if years later this person finally confides in an insecure ally who has her own secret: a life-changing promotion with a catch-her signature on a document labeling sexual minorities as "repugnant" and "offensive"?Intersexion is a beautiful, life-giving story that plays out at the intersection of social and religious tension. Cynthia, an adjunct professor with a trunk full of ungraded papers and snack wrappers, has been an LGBTQIA+ ally for years-in convenient ways. She enjoys the company of her gay friends-but her support isn't risky; it hasn't cost her anything. Until she meets Dani.The youngest child in a conservative evangelical family, Dani knows playing the role of dutiful daughter is safer than jeopardizing faith and family with a body that seems an affront to both. Born visibly female, yet desperate to be seen as the boy he truly is, Dani relies on prayer and magical thinking, until his life depends on one thing: the truth.Intersexion is a harrowing, hopeful exploration of the cost of coming out-as an intersex minority, ally, or asker of difficult questions-and what it means to come into one's own. It's a book for anyone craving a more authentic life, and a book about the intersections we find ourselves in by no choice of our own.
- | Author: Cynthia Vacca Davis
- | Publisher: Lake Drive Books
- | Publication Date: Aug 02, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 256 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
- | ISBN-10: 1957687061
- | ISBN-13: 9781957687063
