At first glance, Cosey Fanni Tutti's new book Re-Sisters seems like a bit of a stretch, bringing together her thoughts on electronic pioneer Delia Derbyshire and medieval mystic Margery Kempe as well as on her own life, artistic outlook and creative endeavours.
And yet, in conversation with Fiona Sturges, she does a good job of selling the concept: "These were women struggling to be themselves and find their place in the world, and who did not give up whatever life threw at them. What links all three of us is that we didn't want to submit to what was laid out for us. We wanted to find a way out."
That much is certainly true of the author, whose steadfast refusal to conform to expectations of any kind - whether social, sexual or artistic - is well documented, not least in Other, Like Me, the BBC's documentary about COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle.
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