[4][1] Hillman attended the University of California, Santa Cruz and received a bachelor's degree in community studies in 1994.
[7] During the 2001 National Queer Arts Festival, she produced "Intercourse: A Sex and Gender Spoken Word Recipe for Revolution," which showcased transgender and intersex writers.
[2][1] Sociologist and sexologist Carol Queen described it as a view "into the intricate insides of love and sex, safety and identity, the pleasures and dangers of urban life.
[9] The book is a memoir in the form of short essays describing Hillman's experiences with sex, gender, family, and community.
She took the opportunity to highlight the voices of intersex adults, saying "We like to decide what happens to our bodies and like to be asked about our lives, rather than told.
While the myth of Hermaphroditus has captured the imagination for ages, it traps real human beings in the painfully small confines of someone else's story.