Clothing has Always Been There for Me

Astolfo sitting in front of a track sewing machine, next to a clothing rack with a few items of clothing, in interview format.

Astolfo: Well, my style is very androgynous. As you can see I’m wearing a t-shirt and a long skirt. But I think it’s- I find it very goth, but I like to put my own emphasis on what kind of clothes I’m wearing, like, I decide what I’m wearing and there’s not really like a style that affects it. Used to have a very emo-esque kind of style, but, like I had red hair and then blue hair and then white hair and, but that definitely affects what I’m wearing today because I kind of went from emo to goth. And- but I don’t really wear colours, at all. Like this is the most I’ll wear [gestures to their shirt: black with purple, pink, and grey].

But I was assigned intersex at birth and- but I was raised male because I have mostly masculine features. And I was born in Ottawa, Ontario but I was raised in Gatineau with my mother and my father being in Ottawa, so at least it’s very close. And Gatineau is a very conservative town, which is where I was raised, so. I was raised to be a boy, but as you can see, I don’t do that anymore. So clothing has always been there for me, it’s always let me express myself.