ABSTRACT
This chapter examines strategies for remaking the gendernormative and heteronormative social worlds with the aim of enhancing public health, agency, social justice and equity. Borderland spaces provide the advantages of private spaces but with the added advantage of inhabiting a social world where one's difference does not attract stigma. Agency requires autonomy and extroversion in the social world and political recognition. During Secret Agency, the author achieved a degree of agency by pretending to conform to group expectations. One strategy in advance of resistance is cultural disruption or pollution, which is not just about empowering an individual but also attempting to empower populations by changing group expectations. Mary Douglas suggests that the power vested in interstitial individuals has the potential to disrupt cultural beliefs of what is right or wrong. What is needed is a way of understanding how to direct such inarticulate power in a way that remakes the social world.
