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?
- Table of Contents
- 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
- 8. Token Act, by Sand C. Chang
- 9. Hypervisible, by Haven Wilvich
- 10. Making Waves in an Unforgiving Maze, by Kameron Ackerman
- 11. Life Threats, by Jeffrey Marsh
- 12. 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
- 14. Questions of Faith, by Jaye Ware
- 15. Coming Out as Your Nibling: What Happened When I Told Everyone I Know That I’m Genderqueer, by Sinclair Sexsmith
- 16. Purple Nail Polish, by Jamie Price
- 17. Uncharted Path: Parenting My Agender Teen, by Abigail
- 18. The Name Remains the Same, by Katy Koonce
- Part IV. Trans Enough: Representation and Differentiation
- 19. Lowercase Q, by Cal Sparrow
- 20. Not Content on the Sidelines, by Suzi Chase
- 21. You See Me, by Brian Jay Eley
- 22. Clothes Make the Gender/Queer, by Aubri Drake
- 23. The Flight of the Magpie, by Adam “PicaPica” Stevenson
- 24. 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
- 26. Kitchen Sink Gender, by Nino Cipri
- 27. What Growing Up Punk Taught Me About Being Gender Nonconforming, by Christopher Soto
- 28. Rock a Bye Binary, by Jules De La Cruz
- 29. To Gender and Back, by Kory Martin-Damon
- 30. Rethinking Non/Binary, by Eli Erlick
- Acknowledgments
- Further Reading
- List of Contributors
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