We have to deconstruct what we have been taught about the gender binary, and that is why non-binary visibility is pivotal in the fight for both transgender and non-binary rights. In 2014, TIME magazine, dubbed the year, ‘The Transgender Tipping Point’. But what does that entail? Indeed, the focus on the transgender community has become...
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Why I’m Nonbinary But Don’t Use ‘They/Them’
Long before I came out as nonbinary, for most of my life, I struggled with gender and gender performance. I spent most of my childhood, adolescence and adulthood being violated for being a Black fat girl. I was often treated as if I was “one of the boys” or an “it” because I wasn’t feminine...