The feral, gender-defiant life of a Canadian WWI veteran who ditched a wealthy upbringing, lived alone in the woods, enlisted three times, fought on the Serbian front as a man, got captured as a prisoner of war, fell in love in a prison camp, and spent decades confusing barbers and bureaucrats alike. We’re queering the Great War, unpacking gender outlaw survival, and asking the spicy question: early non-binary icon or radical dissident woman?

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00:00 Intro
01:19 Our hero's early life
07:27 The radical of it all
13:52 What was it like for women in 1900s?
21:00 How did a woman get into war?
27:54 Enlisting as a man
36:37 First love interest (as a man?)
43:43 Actually non-binary?

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