Alexandra Heminsley on inhabiting a female body
How We Live Now with Katherine May
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The Making of Me
"I'd been turned inside out so comprehensively by the preceding two things and their implications about what we think about a natural or a real or a proper woman as body," she says. "It just sort of raised everything to the ground I felt like a building that had been in a terrible fire." She was grieving for her marriage, how to be a single parent but also realized life could be amazing again.
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