MonstersA hybrid of memoir and essay from award winning writer and critic Alison Croggon. This figure I see in the foreground, this me. How monstrous am I? What does it mean to be a monster? From Latin monstrum, meaning an abomination grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible I was born as part of a monstrous structure the grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible relations of power that constituted colonial Britain. A structure that