Amy Berkowitz and Caren Beilin address questions from the audience, first regarding the process of writing in relation to their own pain. Beilin says she is "a writer who writes against things," using outrage and anger as "vitality" to fuel the work; Berkowitz marks the link between recognition of sexual abuse and pain. She speaks to the validation from doing work that is beneficial to others with parallel experience. Beilin tells of the response of her body to the copper IUD, the "alien" onset of autoimmunity illness, and the "faith" she has in the value of "coming out" regarding chronic illness. They each speak to their general antipathy toward doctors—"doctors are cops" says Berkowitz—with rare exceptions, damaging interactions with the medical-industrial complex, and lowering expectations—"doctors are not healers" says Beilin. Berkowitz tells of her pleasure in writing on the subjects she's chosen ("these are things we haven't figure out yet"); Beilin tells of the "bittersweetness" of writing on chronic illness, and credits Berkowitz for her candor and confidence in writing of recovered memory and sexual assault, and points to the value of "testimony" over "argument"—what it is to speak from "knowing something" among other women who know, and the new sense of communitarian concerns for her in this work. Berkowitz speaks to "becoming a member of the disability community in the Bay Area," and how that changed her. Beilin confesses her insecurity that her book is "not direct enough" to effectively serve other women, her negotiation with her own ableism, and her gratitude to Johanna Hedva for insisting she put that into the work. Tamara Wilder, from the audience, speaks to the impact of Beilin's writing on her activism (IUD Awareness). Both writers discuss the process of constructing their books, with Beilin noting how her subject—the copper IUD—led her to an understanding of theorists Deleuze and Guattari and their concerns with metallurgy.