Astra*·Dec 5, 2024Your Face got Me ThinkingMusings about beauty standards, (trans)gender, and eugenicsA response icon1A response icon1
Astra*·May 8, 2023Uncoiling: Performing Transgender Autobiography“For transsexuality is always narrative work, a transformation of the body that requires the remolding of the life into a particular…
InAn Injustice!byAstra*·Apr 17, 2023About MandyFalling through the transgender cracks in the Netherlands
Astra*·Feb 24, 2023Transgender Eugenics, State-Mandated Murder, and Genocide?Vaush, a reasonably prominent left-tuber, recently covered the David Pakman’s Show’s take on his assertion that current policies and…A response icon1A response icon1
Astra*·Jun 29, 2022Western Media & Pride Won’t Save Us: A Response to The Economist, The Intelligence Podcast“In many countries Pride is a time when people of all sexualities and genders are celebrated…” but not in China! “In the past,” the…
Astra*·Jun 23, 2022Face Off, Musings on Facial-Feminisation SurgeryMy mother keeps making anodyne comments about the societal pressures faced by women: “society puts so many unfair expectations on women to…A response icon7A response icon7
Astra*·Dec 1, 2021Face-off with GiggleThe App that Requires Automatic Gender Recognition Software to AccessA response icon3A response icon3
Astra*·Apr 1, 2021The Transgender Tumbling Point: Trans Visibility and the Edge of the CliffMy trans story goes way back. I just turned 36, which makes me feel very old. Not in the sense that 36 is actually old (it is!!!), but in…A response icon4A response icon4
Astra*·Sep 18, 2020(Neo)Vaginal DialogueIt’s been five months since I had the surgery. It went well. I read recently that between 80–90 percent of female-identified…A response icon1A response icon1
Astra*·Apr 29, 2020Ask Me Anything, Just Not About That: Thoughts on the Eve of SRS“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely…A response icon2A response icon2
