Liz Phair Showed Me the Kind of Woman I Wanted to Be
As I was learning to say with confidence that I was a woman, I struggled to understand what that meant to me.
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Niko is a writer of transsexual experience, based in Toronto. Her work has been featured in SPIN, Paper, Bitch, Xtra and more. She lives with her fiancee, two cats and one dog. She is a Cancer.
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