Alexandra Heminsley on inhabiting a female body
How We Live Now with Katherine May
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The Importance of Conversations in a Trans World
I think being a journalist in the 90s if your choice was being treated like queen bee at women's magazine or having your bum pinched on a desk at one of the dailies well all the men were getting pissed for four hour lunches and you did all the work and didn't get the bylines. I'm not pretending that that was necessarily an easy time to be a woman either but the point is you stay curious and you don't say well it was hard for me back then so it can't be hard for you now because these small number of things have changed. There was a real struggle for me with being honest about my experiences and acknowledging the rage and the pain that
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