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GROWING

’ve always been the sort of person who’s done things my own way. It’s a constant process not to feel the pressures to conform, but it’s one I think I’m getting good at. I was supposed to become a lawyer and marry a man. Instead I quit, got loads of tattoos and married a woman. I’ve always wanted to challenge people’s assumptions of what it means to be a woman – in my opinion, a gloriously expansive and diverse category. But as Hannah Gadsby said in Nanette, being an “incorrect woman”

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