Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword: From Genderqueer to Nonbinary to . . . xi
4. Introduction xv
5. PART ONE. What Is Gender?
6. Chapter One. War Smoke Catharsis 3
7. Chapter Two. Deconstructing My Self 10
8. Chapter Three. Coatlicue 14
9. Chapter Four. Namesake 24
10. Chapter Five. My Genderqueer Backpack 29
11. Chapter Six. Scrimshaw 35
12. PART TWO. Visibility: Standing Up and Standing Out
13. Chapter Seven. Being Genderqueer Before It Was a Thing 41
14. Chapter Eight. Token Act 48
15. Chapter Nine. Hypervisible 58
16. Chapter Ten. Making Waves in an Unforgiving Maze 63
17. Chapter Eleven. Life Threats 72
18. Chapter Twelve. Just Genderqueer, Not a Threat 80
19. PART THREE. Community: Creating a Place for the Rest of Us
20. Chapter Thirteen. What Am I? 89
21. Chapter Fourteen. Questions of Faith 99
22. Chapter Fifteen. Coming Out as Your Nibling: What Happened When I Told Everyone I Know That I’m Genderqueer 107
23. Chapter Sixteen. Purple Nail Polish 114
24. Chapter Seventeen. Uncharted Path: Parenting My Agender Teen 120
25. Chapter Eighteen. The Name Remains the Same 130
26. PART FOUR. Trans Enough: Representation and Differentiation
27. Chapter Nineteen. Lowercase Q 141
28. Chapter Twenty. Not Content on the Sidelines 148
29. Chapter Twenty-One. You See Me Brian 156
30. Chapter Twenty-Two. Clothes Make the Gender/Queer 165
31. Chapter Twenty-Three. The Flight of the Magpie 173
32. Chapter Twenty-Four. An Outsider in My Own Landscape 181
33. PART FIVE. Redefining Dualities: Paradoxes and Possibilities of Gender
34. Chapter Twenty-Five. Not- Two 191
35. Chapter Twenty-Six. Kitchen Sink Gender 201
36. Chapter Twenty-Seven. What Growing Up Punk Taught Me About Being Gender Nonconforming 208
37. Chapter Twenty-Eight. Rock a Bye Binary 214
38. Chapter Twenty-Nine. To Gender and Back 224
39. Chapter Thirty. Rethinking Non/Binary 231
40. Acknowledgments 241
41. Further Reading 243
42. Contributors 247