Finding My Voice, Literally

As a trans woman it’s taken work to change my voice, but becoming myself is worth it

Amy J. Ko
Human Parts
Published in
6 min readNov 17, 2019

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I’I’ve never liked my voice. As a child, when I heard myself in recordings, I’d think I sounded like I was trying to be someone I wasn’t (partly because I was). When my voice broke at puberty, I came to detest it even more. The deeper it got, the more I felt like my voice was an…

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Amy J. Ko
Human Parts

Professor, University of Washington iSchool (she/her). Code, learning, design, justice. Trans, queer, parent, and lover of learning.