Because of a Flower (album)

“The earliest memory where a flower had some significance was when I was 18, and I found out that I was intersex for the first time. I just was trying to find resources on what it meant and trying to figure out how to meet other people like me. I was living in rural Iowa at the time, at my music school, and just had no idea how to cope with that. This was in 2005, very early social media days. I ended up finding this private support group on Yahoo. The name had a giant umbrella term of “all disorders of sexual development.” I don't remember the terminology now.

It was mostly older women and no one lived close to me, but the symbol was an orchid. I can't remember why exactly, but they related it to the rareness of our conditions and our bodies. That was a significant moment. I'm no botanist or plant expert, but through my limited research, there's different species on the planet that are hermaphroditic or have “male” and “female” parts. When I learned that most flowering plants are hermaphrodites, that felt significant to me. I saw flowers in this new sense because they're universally very beautiful. Whereas historically, intersex people are not seen in the same way.”

—Roxanne on the significance of the title and discovering being intersex.^[1]