Amanda Kovattana

“How did we get all these Chinese people?” I asked my farm partner, Clasina, when I landed in Northern Thailand a few days before our schedu...

With the publication of my book The Unexpected Penis: Conversations on the Gender Trail , I have taken the opportunity to start a substack s...

After two years of being confined to the United States, I was relieved to finally be able to return to my home country of Thailand for a dif...

 (I wrote this post for my FB page and it is backdated to reflect the date of my original post.) My mother knitted this sweater when she was...

I wrote this piece for my friends on FB back in August a couple of months before the BBC published its piece on similar experiences happeni...

  My ‘big sister’ cousin in Bangkok made this avatar for me. She chose the photo. The one that reminded her of my father. The one I posted t...

Last Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a segment on “transgender health”.  As reported by interviewees the original intention was to do an hour long ...