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Helena de Bres

Its Not You, It's Me

Helena de Bres, The Point, September 2019

Facebook often asks me 'Want to tag yourself? Yes – No' in a photo that appears to contain only Julia. No? I sometimes wonder, my hand hovering over the mouse. Yes?

Drawing on her experiences as an identical twin, Helena de Bres reflects on twinship’s potential to problematise mainstream definitions of the self.

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