“As a gender abolitionist, I believe that we all have the power to tear down these stereotypes.”
of Black women’s pain, and much more. For Thandiwe Genevieve, that specific form of racism manifested in their hesitancy to come out as non-binary because they feared they would be seen as even less feminine.“I think there’s this fear that [being non-binary] it would make me less desirable, that like, less people would be attracted to me, I would have less opportunities to have sex, or have relationships.
“Being a person of color and non-binary, or just being queer in general... It’s very difficult for my parents to understand that,” Elena says. “Like, they just got over the ‘mental gymnastics’ — I guess — of understanding gay, lesbian, trans; and now, when you add non-binary to the mix, it can be kind of confusing or difficult to understand for them.”But breaking away from the binary can be freeing. Lili Washington talks about the trauma that the binary system can cause.
Jack Nathan Richards, who moved from Tacoma, Washington to New York a decade ago, felt that breaking away from the traditional binary system was liberating. “To be non-binary does not mean to completely remove traditional gender understanding from oneself, it just means to open up the possibilities of more gender expression.
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