My aerial silks journey: 'I have never felt more connected to my body and femininity'

How the circus art of aerial silks helped Filomena Kaguako embrace her body and her femininity

Filomena Kaguako performing at Aerial Cirque in Exchequer St, Dublin. Picture: Marc O’Sullivan

A little under five years ago, a former colleague of mine showed me a video that I didn’t know would alter the entire trajectory of my physical interests.

In the video, she was hanging about six metres from the ground secured by nothing but the long red silky material wrapped snugly around her horizontally positioned body.