When I say "I'm queer," I mean that my existence as someone whose gender is neither masculine, nor feminine, nor related to either masculinity or femininity, is a challenge to the systems which straight cisgender white men have forced onto the society in which I have spent my entire life. Does this challenge look like a reaction to those systems? What else could it be? I'm human, and this world is all I know.
Read MoreUntil trans people no longer need to be visible, until asking people to discard binary ideas of gender is no longer seen as revolutionary, until men stop telling me I don't exist, activism is not a revolution. It is what must be done.
Read MoreMy gender is nonbinary. That means that I don't identify within the socially defined constructs of masculinity and femininity.
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