The Unwillingness to Find a Middle Way With People I Consider to Be Beyond the Pale

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I've wasted a phenomenal amount of my own life on trying to work out at what point you know hashtag speaking out is worth it on social media or whether you're just stamping the grass down in the pathways more. I think that's an interesting question at a point in society where we've been literally isolated from each other so there's all kinds of things that wouldn't have happened if we hadn't spent half of the last couple of years avoiding each other and also this sort of hyper connectivity of being online all the time. When actually kind of being taking the loftier zadee smith type route, saying I'm only responsible for my how I live my life and I will try

Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.

This week Katherine chats to journalist and writer Alexandra Heminsley, author of Some Body to Love. After infertility treatment, a challenging pregnancy and a sexual assault, Alex found her relationship drifting apart for reasons she couldn’t fully understand. But when her partner finally disclosed that they wanted to transition to being a woman, Alex had to come to terms with something she never expected: being part of a LBTQIA+ family. In this conversation, she explores her compassionate response to her former partner’s needs, how it has changed her viewpoint on life, and how life can be remade in the face of the unexpected.

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