#nonbinary stories

[ghost-the-enby]

This blog is dedicated to stories involving neo pronouns, with a focus on they/fae pronouns. I use those pronouns...at least online anyway. I wanted to write stories that use these pronouns as I haven’t personally seen them used myself.

These stories will eventually come as I’m slow at writing when it’s for fun. But they will come.

I hope anyone that reads them, enjoys them.

[wecanalldobetter]

me: *sees post about being a woman*

me: that's not true i don't relate don't that at all

me: wait i'm not a woman

me: oh

[neutrois]

Finding Myself in 'This Beautiful, Beautiful Place' - Kyra Soleil-Dawe's Struggle to Stay, Part One

In 2014, when Kyra Soleil-Dawe was 17 years-old, they formed a small, theater company out of West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle in Shepherdstown – a

[liminalflares]

If you've listened to our first episode, "A Prelude at the Threshold," you heard me talk about an essay I wrote about figuring out my gender identity, "Liminal Flares: Unlearning the Gender Binary," which is also the source of the title of our podcast. Some of you read that essay back when it was first published on the Haute Macabre blog.

For anyone who didn't read it then and is curious about it now, the essay now lives on our website, liminalflares.com, specifically on our blog. ⁣ (You can subscribe to be notified about new blog posts via email. 🖤⁣) ⁣ Speaking of which, have you seen our gorgeous website!? It was designed by my amazing friends at Your Plan B, who even animated some of our wonderful show art created by Daniel Kern. The combination of Daniel's art and Dave's animation gives me cozy-gloomy Edward Gorey feels and I can't get enough of it.

[mischief-mistlefoe]

Ana on the Edge is a coming out story. It’s not just about coming out to people who love you, it’s about coming out to yourselves.

[waystoraise-blog]

Gender Expansive- Kenny

The narratives surrounding transgender and nonbinary individuals are narrow, usually leaving out nonbinary genders altogether, and often parsed for cisgender individuals instead of for us. This column is dedicated to providing more, to raising the bar, each article devoted to a different nonbinary person getting the chance to answer some questions and talk a little about their gender and gender in general. To expand on the stories we have, on the ideas of what being trans and nonbinary looks like. You can see our past articles here: Chris/Isabella, Andrew, Zoe/Rory.

This week we bring you some questions answered by Kenny, our first follower submission! “Salutations! My name is Kenny, I’m a nonbinary teenager and I think this is a really important project.”

How do you define your gender? I define my gender as being in between boy and girl. On a sliding scale, sometimes it leans a little more towards one gender than the other but for the most part I fit into neither the male nor female category.  
What does your gender mean to you? My gender is important because I feel as if I don’t have one. I do no identity as one specific gender and it makes me proud of living and proving other wrong when they tell me the way I feel is impossible. 


How and when did you realize you were nonbinary, what was that journey like? It happened when I was about 14 or 15. I started hating the fact that my body was so feminine and I didn’t know why. I just knew I had these things on my chest that I didn’t want, I didn’t feel like they belonged to me. I felt completely disconnected from my body. It wasn’t my body. So I did some research and found out about different gender identities and realized that what I was feeling was dysphoria. Once I put a name to the feeling, I could deal with it.  
What did you wish people knew more about your gender? I am not a girl!!! Gender is a spectrum and sometimes I don’t even feel like I belong on the spectrum at all. I wish people could understand what it feels like to live in a body that doesn’t match what you feel on the inside.


What advice would you give to people questioning their gender? Don’t freak out. I freaked out. Don’t freak out and wrap up your chest in ace wraps because it’s dangerous. Just stay calm and confide in a friend you trust or a stranger on the Internet. There is so much support available online nowadays. Please know that you aren’t alone and when I was younger I went through the same thing. Don’t force it either. Stay calm. Let it happen. Self discovery takes time. Good luck, the LGBT community is here for you when you’re ready.

Gender Expansive is an ongoing series designed to cover a wide range of stories and individuals, and we are happy to accept submissions of articles from followers. If you’re interested in writing a gender expansive article yourself, feel free to send us an ask to talk about it! Or even go straight to sending in a submission. Just answer the basic questions included here, and include a selfie if you feel like it!