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Nonbinary

Memoirs of Gender and Identity
  • Edited by: Micah Rajunov and A. Scott Duane
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2019
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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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PART ONE. What Is Gender?

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PART TWO. Visibility: Standing Up and Standing Out

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PART THREE. Community: Creating a Place for the Rest of Us

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PART FOUR. Trans Enough: Representation and Differentiation

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PART FIVE. Redefining Dualities: Paradoxes and Possibilities of Gender

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April 15, 2019
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9780231546102
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