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Victoria Strake

Victoria Strake

We Cling To Anxiety

A sudden loss of tension in our lives would be like a loss of gravity: disorienting, frightening, and cause for panic.

3 min readNov 20, 2020

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Victoria Strake

The Big Little Joys of Being Trans

It’s the small things in life that often bring the most happiness moment-to-moment.

3 min readNov 7, 2020

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Victoria Strake

No Brunch.

There is work to be done for a better future.

2 min readNov 7, 2020

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No Brunch.

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Victoria Strake

The Cost of Resistance

We can either benefit from the system or attack it, but not both.

4 min readNov 1, 2020

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The Cost of Resistance

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Saving Humanity Will Be Bad For The Economy

To keep living we’ll need to change this thing we’ve been taught to serve called ‘the economy’.

5 min readOct 30, 2020

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I Wasn’t Born This Way

Or maybe I was. Or maybe I changed along the way, or maybe I decided to live like this. It doesn’t actually matter, though.

6 min readOct 15, 2020

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How I Knew I Was Trans

Answering a question I’ve received from a surprising number of people.

2 min readOct 12, 2020

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Agency and Blame

The ability to help ourselves doesn’t mean we’re to blame if we try and fail to do so.

3 min readOct 11, 2020

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Agency and Blame

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Victoria Strake

How Not To Lose at LEGOs

We’re killing ourselves trying to win at games that aren’t real and have no stakes.

4 min readOct 8, 2020

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When You Just Can’t Fix a ‘Fixer’

We can’t stop them from giving advice, but we can be a bit less annoyed by it — science shows us how.

3 min readOct 5, 2020

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Victoria Strake

Victoria Strake

Essayist, former scientist, trans woman. Striving for actionable methods of peaceful revolution — relationships, community, mutual aid, subsistence, science.

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