about this website

This website has three primary roles.

1. Miyabi Starr's Portfolio
2. Take time to think about queer art, queer studies, trans studies, etc.
3. A place to organize gender, sexuality, relationships, etc.

Let's take a closer look at each one.

1、Miyabi Starr's Portfolio

I, Miyabi, am an artist.
This website has a page that summarizes the record of these activities.（  Work）

It will include works using techniques such as manga, video, painting, works practiced as "survive act," documentation of exhibitions and publications, and commentary on my own work intertwined with queer practices.

Whether you are interested in art and creative work, or queer studies, I hope you will take a look.

2、Take time to think about queer art, queer studies, trans studies, etc.

and trans studies are a field of study that examines sexual diversity by questioning the normative assumption that gender and sexuality conform to a traditional 'male/female' dichotomy. The field challenges the notion of 'normativity' and seeks to understand the experiences of those who do not conform to it. ---The description is very rough.

Its "diversity" is also being updated every moment.
In the past, 'homosexual' was a single word. However, now we can say things like 'if you are rich or poor, your situation is different,' 'racism comes into play if you are of a different race,' and 'what about transgender people?' The understanding of the term 'homosexual' is increasing, allowing for more detailed discussions.
We went from being able to talk in broad strokes to being able to say, "What is the case here?" and get into more detail. At the same time, you will be able to think from a different angle, "What if I change my point of view?" It is interesting to follow the topic.

And art, I think, is one way to think about that "other point of view."

So, in order to pour the power of life into myself, when I find something interesting on these topics, I will take my time and write an article that I can revisit at any time in a website that has a different sense of time than social medias.

3、A place to organize gender, sexuality, relationships, etc.

I am a transgender male, but I wandered around the internet for a long time before I recognized that.

Since I was 4 or 5 years old, I have been bothered by the difference between my perceived gender and the gender expected by those around me.
In junior high school health class, I naturally thought that the body presented as a boy's body was my own, although for some reason the class was forced to participate in the girl's side of the class. I believed that one day the misunderstanding would be cleared up and I would be allowed to join the boys' class.
Finally, in college, I realized that I was apparently not a man.

From there, I began searching the Internet for information that made sense, changing search terms over and over and opening 30 pages of search results trying to figure out what the discrepancy was.
On television and in reality, there is a "natural" quota, and if you fail to meet it, you are ridiculed. So I could only take myself seriously on the Internet.

Back to the story.

I hope that this website will naturally lead to a place where readers can take the time to organize their way of life without the "normal" noise, from its role as a place to think carefully about queer studies, etc., which I wrote about in #2.

If you already have an established "I am this way," I suspect that knowing another way of being will further increase the number of cameras that can capture a three-dimensional view of you and your surroundings - Depends on my ability lol.
I plan to update the website to allow this as well.