What Does It Really Mean to Be Non-Binary? | Xtra Magazine
We need to decolonize our:
Metaphors
Languange
Culture
Governance
Habits
Worldviews
Time
Saviourism
Going beyond blame and shame. From appropriation to appreciation.
Operating from emptiness. Beginners mind & non-categorization.
To be non-binary, in human and machinic terms, is to reject utterly the false dichotomies that produce violence as the direct consequence of inequality. A culture of binary language splits us in two, and makes us choose which parts of ourselves fit existing power structures. To assert non-binariness is to heal this divide and to make different clai
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