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It's not the police, firefighters, or EMTs that clean up a crime scene—that's the job of a trauma cleaner, specifically Sandra Pankhurst. Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman...

Winner, The 2018 Victorian Prize for Literature, and the Prize for Non-FictionBefore she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife…But as a little boy, raised in violence and ex...

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife …But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her ...