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Queer body power

“My desire for thinness was completely entwined with a desire for androgyny”

ESSIE DENNIS is a queer author and artist. Their first book, Queer Body Power, is out now.

@khal_essie

I’m a girl. Sort of. Maybe. Not really. On a Tuesday in April maybe I’m a girl, but on a Saturday in May I’m something else. Girlhood is like

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