My first pair of breasts or, A seasonal mystery revisited

C Lou Hamilton
7 min readDec 31, 2020
A drawing of a black corset, Victorian style.

I’m sitting on the floor before a television set, one of those old black-and-white boxes with the rabbit ears on top, propped upon a small table. My parents, brother and I are visiting friends or family, I don’t know who, or where. In my memory I am alone in the room, which doesn’t mean there aren’t other kids there, just that they are not part of this story. The adults are in another room…

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C Lou Hamilton

Author of VEGANISM, SEX AND POLITICS (2019), editor, translator, animal lover, passionate vegan, queer fem/inist 🍏 peninfist.substack.com