I hope she won't mind the redaction:
"The struggle to identify, understand, and accept intersexuality( 1) is ongoing and has not yet reached a conclusion… Though a fair amount of work has already been done in this regard, and a tremendous amount of progress accomplished over the course of the last century, intersexuality still is not fully understood, and a long way remains before intersexuals-by which I mean all people who are neither wholly ‘male’ or ‘female’- are fully integrated into American society and assume the rights they are entitled to by the constitution of our land.
The Sexual Revolution began a half century ago, but it has not yet culminated in the Sexual Enlightenment. Learning to identify, understand, and accept intersexuality is an important part of the Sexual Revolution/ Enlightenment, and until intersexuals are more thoroughly appreciated and understood we can be sure of progress yet to be made… given time and continued practice, the process of understanding and accepting intersexuals will become effortless and natural, and nobody will think twice about or smirk at a person who defies traditional notions of what it means to be ‘male’ and ‘female’.
Each of the first five editions of this publication will feature articles I have written on intersexuality in Art, History, Science and Culture, as well as a short piece of fiction from one of my own personal writings.( 3) Where the publication goes after these first five volumes is mostly up to you, its readers… If you would like to take part in this publication, either as a writer or an interviewee, or if you have any recommendations or suggestions for improving it, feel free to contact me.
Creation of this publication has involved a lot of pain, labor, and effort on my own part, and in some ways, I feel as if I have given birth to a child; but if I have given birth to a child, it is to your child, all you intersexuals out there and everybody who takes an interest in us or supports our cause, and it is up to you to raise this child, and to see that its voice, our voice, binds us all together with a single purpose and for a common cause so that someday, …intersexuals will be proud of their gifts, not ashamed of their differences; and so that someday, they will be treated and accepted as equals by society and the law.
That is our goal now, and anything short of total success we shall consider an absolute failure.
-Julia Reeds, Founding Editor, Intersex"
Full text can be accessed from the link below:
