Nonbinary

What happens when your gender doesn't fit neatly into the categories of male or female? Even mundane interactions like filling out a form or using a public bathroom can be a struggle when these designations prove inadequate. In this groundbreaking book, thirty authors highlight how our experiences are shaped by a deeply entrenched gender binary.

The powerful first-person narratives of this collection show us a world where gender exists along a spectrum, a web, a multidimensional space. Nuanced storytellers break away from mainstream portrayals of gender diversity, cutting across lines of age, race, ethnicity, ability, class, religion, family, and relationships. From Suzi, who wonders whether she'll ever "feel" like a woman after living fifty years as a man, to Aubri, who grew up in a cash-strapped fundamentalist household, to Sand, who must reconcile the dual roles of trans advocate and therapist, the writers' conceptions of gender are inextricably intertwined with broader systemic issues. Labeled gender outlaws, gender rebels, genderqueer, or simply human, the voices in Nonbinary illustrate what life could be if we allowed the rigid categories of "man" and "woman" to loosen and bend. They speak to everyone who has questioned gender or has paused to wonder, What does it mean to be a man or a woman-and why do we care so much?

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Edited by Micah Rajunov and Scott Duane

Contenu

Foreword: From Genderqueer to Nonbinary to . . . , by Riki Wilchins
Introduction, by Micah Rajunov and Scott Duane
Part I. What Is Gender?
1. War Smoke Catharsis, by Alex Stitt

2. Deconstructing My Self, by Levi S. Govoni
3. Coatlicue, by féi hernandez
4. Namesake, by michal "mj" jones
5. My Genderqueer Backpack, by Melissa L. Welter
6. Scrimshaw, by Rae Theodore
   Part II. Visibility: Standing Up and Standing Out
   7. Being Genderqueer Before It Was a Thing, by Genny Beemyn
7. Token Act, by Sand C. Chang
8. Hypervisible, by Haven Wilvich
9. Making Waves in an Unforgiving Maze, by Kameron Ackerman
10. Life Threats, by Jeffrey Marsh
11. Just Genderqueer, Not a Threat, by Jace Valcore
    Part III. Community: Creating a Place for the Rest of Us
    13. What Am I?, by CK Combs
12. Questions of Faith, by Jaye Ware
13. Coming Out as Your Nibling: What Happened When I Told Everyone I Know That I'm Genderqueer, by Sinclair Sexsmith
14. Purple Nail Polish, by Jamie Price
15. Uncharted Path: Parenting My Agender Teen, by Abigail
16. The Name Remains the Same, by Katy Koonce
    Part IV. Trans Enough: Representation and Differentiation
    19. Lowercase Q, by Cal Sparrow
17. Not Content on the Sidelines, by Suzi Chase
18. You See Me, by Brian Jay Eley
19. Clothes Make the Gender/Queer, by Aubri Drake
20. The Flight of the Magpie, by Adam "PicaPica" Stevenson
21. An Outsider in My Own Landscape, by s. e. smith
    Part V. Redefining Dualities: Paradoxes and Possibilities of Gender
    25. Not-Two, by Avery Erickson
22. Kitchen Sink Gender, by Nino Cipri
23. What Growing Up Punk Taught Me About Being Gender Nonconforming, by Christopher Soto
24. Rock a Bye Binary, by Jules De La Cruz
25. To Gender and Back, by Kory Martin-Damon
26. Rethinking Non/Binary, by Eli Erlick
    Acknowledgments
    Further Reading
    List of Contributors
    Index