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Lum by Libby Ware5/12/2023 I had to decide which condition she had so I decided that she would have Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH). When I started researching I learned that intersex was the preferred term and is an umbrella term that includes many different syndromes where an individual’s genitals or reproductive organs are not typical for either gender. I don’t remember when I first learned about hermaphrodites, but I had the mistaken idea that they had all the genitals and other gender traits. How did you first learn about intersexuality? I decided to write a short story about her, but it grew into a novel. My mother told me a story when I was a child about a “morphydite” who had no home of her own. What gave you the idea to have your protagonist be intersex? Ware, the owner of Toadlily Books in Grant Park, took a few minutes to talk about the book and the title character. Everything changes when the Blue Ridge Parkway is scheduled to come through her family’s farmland, and the community is subsequently torn apart. Identified at age eight as what we now know of as intersex, Lum is now a 33-year-old shuttled from one relative’s house to another in the Shenandoah Valley in the early 1930s. “Lum” (short for Columbia) is the title character of the book of the same name, released in late October. Atlanta lesbian author Libby Ware chose a unique and all too rarely voiced sexual minority to be the protagonist for her debut novel.
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