Kalahari CLOSET

ne can’t help but feel a bit egocentric when writing about what gender you prefer copulating with. Aren’t we past the point of sexual justification? What makes my exit story so special? And more – why is it so important that I proclaim, out of all the gender signs, why I prefer the erected arrow to the hanging cross? But my coming-of-age story isn’t as much about the differences in our stories as it is about the similarities, give or take a few anomalies of coming to terms with myself in the godforsaken, nether region of the nine provinces – the Northern Cape. Alas, coming out in South Africa’s