Women of Letters challenged its contributors to write a letter to something they’d lost. Singer,architect and DJ Simona Castricum wrote one to herself Where do I start? “To whom it may concern?” I’ve been lost for as long as I can remember. It defines my life: my direction, my relationships and my sense of self. But how can you lose something youve never had? Or perhaps something I once had, or an innocence or an energy that was very quickly taken from me at birth – upon gender assignment. In 1975 at Dandenong hospital,the midwife would hold seen my penis and scrotum and yelled out to my mum: “It’s a boy!” And so I became Simon, a son to a very proud mum and dad. When my own son came diving out of my partner’s womb at the Royal Women’s hospital, or Melbourne,in 2008, the first thing I heard the midwife say was also: “It’s a boy!”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com