#beyond the gender binary

[audhdnight]

⚠️PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT⚠️

The Queer Liberation Library is, as the name suggests, a digital library centered around queer literature. They offer library cards to anyone in any place, all you need in order to sign up is an email address. Then you can access their catalog online or through apps like Libby.

When I signed up I received an email that said there’s sometimes a waitlist, but I should have my card within a week or else someone would get back to me within that timeframe to explain if I had to wait longer. I ended up getting my card after only a couple of days.

Their website is very accessible and easy to use. My favorite features are the button at the bottom of the screen which lets you switch between light and dark mode, and the Quick Exit banner along the top of the page that doesn’t go away regardless of where you navigate on the site.

This is such an incredible resource and I can’t believe I didn’t know about it until very recently. I want every queer person to know about it! They have accounts on most of the major social media sites (such as tiktok, Instagram, even here on tumblr at @queerliblib). There’s also a place on their website where you can suggest books they should add to their catalog.

After you get your card, I’d suggest the first book you read to be Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon. It is a short but powerful little book that I think is an incredibly concise analysis of societal gender-based discrimination, and a great place to start a lot of really important discussions. I listened to the audiobook this morning (it was only an hour long, which is a win for my trash attention span) and I couldn’t believe how good it was for so little page time.

I will absolutely be reading the rest of the Pocket Change Collective (the series which Beyond the Gender Binary is part of) and I can’t wait to see what I’ll learn from them.

#I can’t even describe how much I love this book #queer liberation #queer lit #queer resources #beyond the gender binary #social studies #queer books #nonfiction books #nonbinary author #lgbtq community #lgbtqia #gender discourse #gender equality #gender expression #gender exploration

[transbookoftheday]

Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

In Beyond the Gender Binary, poet, artist, and LGBTQIA+ rights advocate Alok Vaid-Menon deconstructs, demystifies, and reimagines the gender binary.

Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists. In this installment, Beyond the Gender Binary, Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not in black and white, but in full color. Taking from their own experiences as a gender-nonconforming artist, they show us that gender is a malleable and creative form of expression. The only limit is your imagination.

#beyond the gender binary #alok vaid-menon #nonbinary #trans book of the day #trans books #queer books #bookblr #booklr

[desi-lgbt-fest]

hi! im recommending the book "beyond the gender binary" by alok vaid-menon. theyre an indian-american author and their book is really good about deconstructing the gender binary!

also recommending the book "the boy and the bindi" it's a really pretty and queer children's book about a boy who wears a bindi

Oh this looks really good!!!

What an icon!!!

And the boy and the bindi is an illustrated book! Also a terrific visual

#beyond the gender binary #the boy and the bindi #alok vaid menon #vivek shraya #queer literature #desi queer #desi lgbt #transgender #nonbinary #anonymous #asks #og mod

[queerandquiet]

The days that I feel most beautiful are the days that I am most afraid. They tell us to “be ourselves,” but if you listen closely, there’s more to that sentence: “. . . until you make them uncomfortable.”

Alok Vaid-Menon, in their book “Beyond the Gender Binary”

#nonbinary quotes #queer quotes #lgbtq+ quotes #lgbtq+ #lgbt #lgbt quotes #trans quotes #transgender quotes #nonbinary quote #lgbtq+ quote #lgbt quote #lgbt pride #lgbtq+ pride #lgbtqia+ #nonbinary pride #trans pride #transgender pride #beyond the gender binary #fuck the cistem #gender binary #nonbinary

[mydailybookquotes]

“How do you express pain when you can’t even locate the wound?”

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

#quotes #book quotes #books #inspirational quotes #mydailybookquotes #inspire #life quotes #inspiring quotes #life #bookblr #pain #alok vaid menon #beyond the gender binary

[vizthedatum]

I really should have investigated my complicated feelings when I first watched Disney’s Mulan (1998).

#just some egg shit #egg #trans #trans masc femme #trans masc #femboy #nonbinary #non binary #enby #mulan #healing #queer #life #gender #beyond the gender binary #roseboy #self love #gender dysphoria #reflection #i’ll make a man out of you #ftm #transition #I realize other ppl have talked about it #I’m just fucking gay rn

[plutoisnotaplanet42]

June 10th - Book Rec

‘Beyond the Gender Binary‘ by Alok Vaid-Menon is a beautiful dispiction of being non-binary, but also the harsh reality one faces when expressing themselves for who one truly is.

#beyond the gender binary #alok vaid menon #book recs in june #lgbtqia+ #queer #non binary

[cronchygravel]

i've read 3 books so far this year, clap for me yall

#❀ #when women were dragons #kelly barnhill #beyond the gender binary #alok vaid-menon #circe by madeline miller

[green-elf-magicks]

I recently finished reading "Beyond the Gender Binary" by Alok Vaid-Menon and found it super validating. It's a short read (about an hour in audiobook format) but full of impact. ALOK is an internationally acclaimed writer, performer, and public speaker. They are also gender nonconforming, transfeminine and have been a steady voice in the fight for the acceptance of nonbinary and trans folx.

"The gender binary is a publicist who never stops working. It would have you believe that gender non-conformity poses a bigger threat than actual emergencies like climate change. That nonbinary people have access to massive power, even though the majority of us can’t go outside without being attacked. That it’s our fault for being attacked.

That this is about our bodies, not their bigotry. Our presentations, not their policies. That our attackers are just “ignorant,” not “intentional.” That we are new, even though we have always been here." ~ALOK @alokvmenon

#nonbinary #gender nonconforming #genderfluid #gender flux #genderfluidity #art #illustration #ink #drawing #sketchbook #queer #gender queer #alok #alok vaid menon #beyond the gender binary #clothing has no gender

[imustbeamermaidrango]

#gender #non binary #enby #beyond the gender binary

[zennialemo]

"I do not have the luxury of being. I am only seen as doing. As if my gender is something that is being done to them and not something that belongs to me" - Alok Vaid-Menon in Beyond the Gender Binary

#beyond the gender binary #alok vaid menon #genderqueer #non binary #gender nonconforming

[rachedurst]

anyways i love you people that are both gay and straight, in whatever way that presents. being nonbinary often can mean a complicated relationship to sexuality and how one perceives it within the societal restrictions of homo and heterosexual, and i think bridging those definitions and having "contradictory" labels like lesboy or whatever is really cool. i support and stan he/him lesbians or butch lesbians or she/her gay men or femme gays or she/he pronoun users and whatever else, be it cis or trans or both. if you feel like youre both cis and trans that also rocks. dont let people force you back into a binary within the queer community, stay strong!

#queer #nonbinary #genderqueer #cis / trans as opposites is a false dichotomy and only harms nonbinary people. #same with straight/gay. these things can and will overlap if one for example feels like both a man and a woman #and of course beyond self identification alone #the way society treats you will also influence that #anyways op is a binary trans man. im very much a hundert precent a man and dont want people blurring the lines there. but that doesnt apply #for everyone! what makes me hapyp will be misery for someone else. so the reverse applies too. #peace and love on planet earth #fuck up with that gender everyone #gender nonconforming #bigender #im not vaguing the person i responded to btw im just gonna state my support again while its on my mind #multigender

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

DAVE: men should only eat male animals and women should only eat female animals

JOHN: what about nonbinary people?

DAVE: fuck, i dont know. oysters

#submission #homestuck #incorrect homestuck quotes #dave strider #john egbert #mod terezi #seadwellers have genders beyond the feeble gender binary

[icetrolabe]

funky jojo crossover fanart with no particular themes or anything…..

#jjba #jojo's bizarre adventure #dragona joestar #narciso anasui #okay i know neither of these characters are confirmed canonically transgender #but anasui was designed to be androgynous and beyond the binary genders #and dragona literally takes hormones #so please let me have fun with this

[vizthedatum]

As Alok Vaid-Menon says:

"We want a world where boys can feel, girls can lead, and the rest of us can not only exist but thrive. This is not about erasing men and women but rather acknowledging that man and woman are two of many—stars in a constellation that do not compete but amplify one another’s shine."

"We have been taught to fear the very things that have the potential to set us free."

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I hate that there is such rampant and violent transphobia (it's not just the comments - people are getting hurt and dying. People are in fear).

But isn't it sad that transphobia hurts those who don't consider themselves trans too - like it hurts the people who are doing the hurting. We're all hurting.

#trans skater boyfriend #he's my gender goals #femboy #trans #alok #alok vaid menon #healing #love #queer #self love #hurt #hurting #collective hurting #collective healing #transphobia #bigotry hurts us all #beyond the gender binary #the gender binary is fake #gender is colonialist #gender stuff #gender #so much gender all the fucking time

[jackklinemybeloved]

ame worlds beyond number is soooo non-binary coded To Me.

#it’s like. hm. #like that thing of when you’re a kid and you don’t have the expectations to Fit In to the gender binary quite yet #and you can run around and be loud and rough and dirty and no one cares because you’re a seven year old girl #and then you grow up and people ridicule you for being outside of the binary through adolescence #and then as an adult you learn to perform gender for the sake of your community #(thinking of ame’s outfit being pretty hyper feminine and the way her personality as an adult contrasts with her kid personality; #like because of both her position as a witch and a woman she needs to be calm and professional and a caretaker and a mediator and…) #idk. #I’m just thinking about the 14 year old ame scene again it was A Lot #‘she’s not a girl- she’s a witch!’ sparked this post btw. #worlds beyond number #also I get such gender envy from children’s adventure ame and it’s because she reminds me of me as a kid #I want that gender back ok!!!! #twtwatwo #ame wbn