Identity & Queerness
If inner child work is about reconnecting with safety, then the work of reconnecting with your inner adolescent is about working out and integrating your identity.
Alo Johnston • Am I Trans Enough?: How to Overcome Your Doubts and Find Your Authentic Self
But back to me.
The False Promise of Understanding Yourself
poet Lucille Clifton, “Won’t you celebrate with me what I have shaped into a kind of life?”
xtramagazine.com • What Does It Really Mean to Be Non-Binary? | Xtra Magazine
Various words have been used by folks like me to describe how we move through the world, from “genderqueer” to “gender fluid, “gender nonconforming” to “gender variant.” This context is important because expansive identities have existed across history and across cultures, according to Archie Crowley, chair of the Linguistic Society of America’s... See more
xtramagazine.com • What Does It Really Mean to Be Non-Binary? | Xtra Magazine
Da’Shaun Harrison’s relationship to their gender is both infinite and finite. Infinite because the Atlanta-based writer and activist sees being non-binary as “an imagined future,” something they’re always aspiring to, something that is so far beyond the man-woman binary that it delegitimizes gender altogether. Finite because non-binary people exist... See more
xtramagazine.com • What Does It Really Mean to Be Non-Binary? | Xtra Magazine
“Ultimately, gender is a cell into which all people, cis, trans and otherwise, are imprisoned.”