Stellar Nursery

<p><em>Stellar Nursery </em>follows trans/nonbinary poet and artist K.G. Strayer's struggle for bodily autonomy. From abortion to top surgery colliding galaxies to cellular division Strayer's lyric prose explores what it means to move through the modern world in a contentious body. </p><p><br></p><p>The state-mandated counseling packet Strayer receives a week before their abortion in 2014 describes the embryo in relation to coins<span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>the height of a nickel the diameter of a dime. Meant to make them picture holding it in their hands. Instead Strayer's imagination conjures a whole galaxy in its place</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>a star being born. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Years later in 2022 </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Roe V. Wade</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> is overturned. The decision is a catalyst that sets in motion explosive consequences in Strayer's personal life and their access to life-saving top surgery hangs in the balance. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Strayer's memoir is a heartfelt account of the layered ways our struggles against fascism converge in the context of lived experience. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>To meet the world fully embodied</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>is that a choice we can all make equally?</span></p>