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We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

I've been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun.

Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.

I was a tomboy as a kid - I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy - and up until I was about six, I had my own very fluid ideas of gender in that I believed that, somehow, an individual could choose whether or not s/he wanted to be a boy or a girl.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project.