The midwife told me that gender conditioning begins the moment the baby is born. The parents, the doctor, the first visitors, grandparents, the nurses on the ward, they all conspire together. The first question is always: “Is it a boy or a girl?” And once they know the answer they react [...]
They said I looked like Joan Baez. Complete strangers would come up to me in the street and say: “Hey, you look just like that folk singer.” And I’d smile and tell them, yes, someone else said that. I was young and in love with being young and looking like Joan Baez. [...]
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