Nonbinary : memoirs of gender and identity
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Nonbinary : memoirs of gender and identity
Columbia University Press, c2019
- : cloth
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 fei 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
Index
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