Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity

Published by Columbia University Press 2019

Nonbinary

Memoirs of Gender and Identity

Edited by: Micah Rajunov and A. Scott Duane

https://doi.org/10.7312/raju18532

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About this book

In this groundbreaking book, thirty authors highlight how our experiences are shaped by a deeply entrenched gender binary. Nuanced storytellers break away from mainstream portrayals of gender diversity, cutting across lines of age, race, ethnicity, ability, class, religion, family, and relationships.

Author / Editor information

Rajunov Micah :

Micah Rajunov is the founder of neutrois.me, aleading resource on nonbinary education, with over 16,000 followers. They lecture extensively on gender identity issues. Their writing has been published in The Advocate, Everyday Feminism, and Huffington Post, as well as the books Manning Up and Trans Bodies, Trans Selves. This would be their first edited volume.Duane A. Scott :

A. Scott Duane produced a narrated photography exhibition called Visible Bodies: Transgender Narratives Retold. He also frequently lectures andpresents on transgender issues. This would be his first edited volume.Micah Rajunov is a writer, researcher, and advocate. Since 2011, Micah has created community resources for nonbinary identities through the site genderqueer.me. Micah’s personal transition story has been featured in mainstream publications as well as a full-length documentary.

Scott Duane is an author, advocate, and queer trans man who has been an accidental activist for nearly a decade. He devotes his efforts to creating resources and spaces where trans voices can be heard.

Reviews

The time is certainly right for a book of this sort that puts a human face on an otherwise theoretical subject. It is, altogether, an original and necessary contribution to the ever-expanding body of LGBTQIA+ literature.

K. W. Mott, Seton Hall University:
It is fascinating to witness, as a queer scholar, how much has been accomplished in these past decades. Nonbinary makes a profound contribution through an insistence upon increasing exposure to the concepts and lived experiences of contemporary queer people and ideas. This book will do amazing things. This is a vital queer theory textbook.

Jen Manion, Amherst College:
Nonbinary is a great book—timely, wide-ranging, interesting, readable, and relatable. This will be a great primer for parents, teachers, doctors, and anyone else who wants to understand the nonbinary community.

Charlie McNabb, author of Nonbinary Gender Identities: History, Culture, Resources:
What a treat to expand my understanding of gender through time and space, and be reminded that we are not a monolith. These memoirs are sure to captivate and comfort the nonbinary community and open the eyes of those who have had little reason to question the gender binary.

S. Bear Bergman, author of Blood, Marriage, Wine, & Glitter:
A thoughtfully assembled collection of fresh and alert writing about the beautiful past, complex present, and dazzling future of nonbinary people and identities. Nonbinary contains the kind of specific stories, redolent of truth and feeling, that open a door for anyone, of any gender, to walk through and be engaged (and entertained, too!).

Jacob Tobia, author of Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story:
This book is beyond vital. It is the anthology I've always yearned for, but never realized could be real. Nonbinary blows open the core of the thing, goes straight for the heart, burrows deep and then some. In a world that insists trans and nonbinary people adopt consistent, easy-to-digest messaging about who we are, this anthology stands bravely above the noise, boldly declaring our multiplicity as our beauty, our contradiction as our multifaceted shimmer.

Jill Soloway, creator of Transparent:
Nonbinary is a beautiful collection, filled with moving and personal stories from life outside the binary. Reading it felt like coming home to a community I'd always longed for. Folks from all across the gender spectrum should dive into these gorgeous insights and revelations about living a life of authenticity.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword: From Genderqueer to Nonbinary to . . . Riki Wilchins Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Micah Rajunov and Scott Duane Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
PART ONE. What Is Gender?
Chapter One. War Smoke Catharsis Alex Stitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Chapter Two. Deconstructing My Self Levi S. Govoni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
Chapter Three. Coatlicue Féi Hernandez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
Chapter Four. Namesake Michal Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
Chapter Five. My Genderqueer Backpack Melissa L. Welter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter Six. Scrimshaw Rae Theodore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
PART TWO. Visibility: Standing Up and Standing Out
Chapter Seven. Being Genderqueer Before It Was a Thing Genny Beemyn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Chapter Eight. Token Act Sand C. Chang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Chapter Nine. Hypervisible Haven Wilvich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Chapter Ten. Making Waves in an Unforgiving Maze Kameron Ackerman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Chapter Eleven. Life Threats Jeffrey Marsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Chapter Twelve. Just Genderqueer, Not a Threat Jace Valcore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
PART THREE. Community: Creating a Place for the Rest of Us
Chapter Thirteen. What Am I? Ck Combs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Chapter Fourteen. Questions of Faith Jaye Ware Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Chapter Fifteen. Coming Out as Your Nibling: What Happened When I Told Everyone I Know That I’m Genderqueer Sinclair Sexsmith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Chapter Sixteen. Purple Nail Polish Jamie Price Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
Chapter Seventeen. Uncharted Path: Parenting My Agender Teen Abigail Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
Chapter Eighteen. The Name Remains the Same Katy Koonce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
PART FOUR. Trans Enough: Representation and Differentiation
Chapter Nineteen. Lowercase Q Cal Sparrow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Chapter Twenty. Not Content on the Sidelines Suzi Chase Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Chapter Twenty-One. You See Me Brian Jay Eley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Chapter Twenty-Two. Clothes Make the Gender/Queer Aubri Drake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Chapter Twenty-Three. The Flight of the Magpie Adam Stevenson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Chapter Twenty-Four. An Outsider in My Own Landscape S. E. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
PART FIVE. Redefining Dualities: Paradoxes and Possibilities of Gender
Chapter Twenty-Five. Not- Two Avery Erickson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Chapter Twenty-Six. Kitchen Sink Gender Cipri Nino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Chapter Twenty-Seven. What Growing Up Punk Taught Me About Being Gender Nonconforming Christopher Soto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Chapter Twenty-Eight. Rock a Bye Binary Jules De La Cruz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
Chapter Twenty-Nine. To Gender and Back Martin- Damon Kory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
Chapter Thirty. Rethinking Non/Binary Eli Erlick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Further Reading Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;General/trade;
Illustrations
- Other: 2 illustrations

eBook

Published: April 15, 2019
ISBN: 9780231546102