Profile: Rahila

About This Author

Author of My Desert Odyssey and Odyssey Continues explores her lifelong issue of gender ambivalence: not a 100% woman, she’s longed to be a man. She (He?) shares her journey through enforced femininity in Japan, a voluntary spokesperson for white feminism in the West, to half-manhood that blossomed in Algeria. Since the arrival of her son she’s a neuter, with a number of mistaken identities.