#non-binary lives

[the-wine-dark-sea]

Reads I'm bringing into the new year 📚

[quotesthatilike]

Through an accident, my unconscious mind had found itself reflected in the words of another person and for the first time, just by chance, language had finally managed to manifest myself in my body.

Jespa Jacob Smith, «The Soft Line In-Between» in Non-binary Lives

[whimsicaldragonette]

ARC Review: Non-Binary Lives - An Anthology of Intersecting Identities

I absolutely loved this book. The essays varied widely in content and topic and each one showcased a different way of being nonbinary. The editors managed to pull together the essays with common threads and weave a tapestry that shows many (not all) ways of being nonbinary.

Throughout, despite all the differences, I felt a profound kinship with each author and found moments in each essay where I felt seen and loved.

I have struggled all my life with being too weird, too different, too everything, and have always felt set apart from those around me. Recognizing myself in these essays, over and over, was such an affirming and empowering feeling. I feel much more secure in my nonbinary identity after reading, and I would recommend this essay collection to everyone, so that they might begin to understand what it's like to be nonbinary.

Thanks to netgalley and Jessica Kingsley Publishers for granting me an e-arc to review

[smolfeudallord]

teacher: alright class you will be assigned groups that you will write an argumentative essay with.

me: yessssss

teacher: now that we have our groups, each of you will pick a topic that your group will be doing your essay on. We have gun control, uniforms, and the death penalty.

me: istg if they choose uniforms

one of my dumb as fuck one direction groupie partners: We will be doing anti-uniforms!!!

me: lol alrite let's do this

her: hoe don't do it

teacher: hoe don't do it

fuckboys sitting in the back: hoe don't do it

me: spends at least 3 paragraphs arguing about gender expression and students who don't fit within the binary and how uniforms rob them of that right

her: oh my god

teacher: who the fuck let her write

me: tHaT'S WHAT YOU FUCKING GET FOR MAKING ME WRITE ABOUT THE LEAST EXCITING TOPIC OUT OF ALL THE THINGS I COULD BE WRITING ABOUT I HAD TO DO UNIFORMS. SO FUCK YOU AND HERE'S YOUR GODDAMN ESSAY.