- AUTHOR OF ‘THE LAST LIVING SLUT: BORN IN IRAN, BRED BACKSTAGE’ (HARPERCOLLINS
EVERY NIGHT ROXANA PRAYS FOR HER WILD HEART…+ NEVER WINS.
BORN IN IRAN, WITH FULL BLOOD PERSIAN PLAYING HOST TO MY SALACIOUS FLESH, I WAS SENT TO ENGLAND AT THE AGE OF 10 DURING THE WAR. AN ENGLISH FAMILY TOOK ME IN AND I LEARNT TO SPEAK ENGLISH…AND FOUND OUT WHAT PAKI MEANT… AND ALSO LEARNT WHAT MENSTRUATION DID TO MY BOD. HERE, AT THE AGE OF 13 I HAD ONE OF MY FIRST SQUIRTERS TO AXL ROSE.
I WROTE MY FIRST BOOK AT THE AGE OF 14 ABOUT THE STREET KIDS OF SAO PAULO. I DON’T KNOW HOW I DID IT… I JUST DID. SINCE THEN I HAVE WRITTEN ARTICLES, POETRY AND POLITICAL PROSE. I SPEAK AT INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S CONFERENCES ABOUT GENDER THEORY AND GLOBALISATION.
LOVE AND PASSION AND SEX AND KISSING HAVE INHABITED ME SINCE I WAS A CHILD WHERE I MADE OUT WITH MY BOY AND GIRL NEIGHBOURS ALTHOUGH I LOST MY VIRGINITY AT 24.
JAMES DOUGLAS MORRISON HAS FOREVER BEEN MY GOD. I WORSHIP DAILY AT THE BEAUTY OF HIS WORDS.
I LOVE HONESTY, AM TERRIFIED OF DISHONESTY. I BELIEVE MONOGAMY IS SOCIETY’S SICKNESS AND UNTIL HUMANITY ADDRESSES THIS, THERE WILL ALWAYS BE ‘CHEATING’, AFFAIRS, LONGINGS, AND RESENTMENT SO INTENSE, IT RESEMBLES MORTAL COMBAT. YOU CAN HAVE THE MOST DELICIOUS SEX AND LOVE WITH THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE BUT HUMANS NATURALLY GET BORED AFTER A WHILE…JUST LIKE EATING YOUR FAVOURITE FOOD FOREVER.
I FALL IN LOVE SO EASILY AND WITHOUT CONDITION. IT IS MY BIGGEST WEAKNESS.
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS DOES NOT ALLOW ME TO SLEEP AT NIGHTS. HAVE YOU SEEN FOOTAGE OF CATS AND DOGS BEING TORTURED AND SKINNED ALIVE FOR FUR? THEIR HOWLS AND CRIES WHEN THEY ARE BEING TORTURED MAKES ME DIE A LITTLE EVERY DAY. PEOPLE WHO WEAR REAL FUR ARE THE SAME AS PAEDOPHILES TO ME. I WOULD GLADLY MURDER THOSE PEOPLE.
MY LOVE IS READING FOUCAULT, JUDITH BUTLER, BAUDRILLARD AND POSTMODERN THEORY. I CANNOT GET ENOUGH. DYLAN THOMAS AND LEONARD COHEN’S WRITINGS RE-BIRTH ME. THEY ARE ALL I NEED. VIRGINIA WOOLF AND SYLVIA PLATH ARE MY BRIDES, THE HOURS BY MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, MY MASTER.
I HAVE A MAMMOTH EGO BUT I AM QUITE SHY INSIDE.
I LOATHE DRUGS AND DO NOT DRINK ALCOHOL. I AM WILD ENOUGH, THANKS.
LOVE JOHN WATERS, DAVID LYNCH, MARTIN SCORSESE, COPPOLA, AND OLIVER STONE.
ADORE AVA GARDNER, GRETA GARBO AND MARILYN.
EDITH PIAF IS MY ULTIMATE HEROINE; OSCAR WILDE IS MY MISCHIEF.
I AM OBSESSED WITH VICTORIAN ENGLAND AND JACK THE RIPPER…OBSESSED I TELL YA. I THINK IN MY PREVIOUS LIFE II LIVED IN VICTORIAN LONDON.