“‘Nonbinary’ is an umbrella term for anyone who doesn't feel their gender falls into either woman or man as discrete categories,” says psychologist Dr. Liz Powell. The term has no bearing on how a person looks; while some nonbinary people might feel at home in an outwardly androgynous...
When two words have the same meaning, we call them synonyms. When two words have different meanings but people use them interchangeably, we write articles about what those words actually mean. Take gender and sex. While people substitute one for the other on the regular, their meaning and ...
The gender binary is a Western concept that was spread globally by repressive and violent tactics. When we talk about non-binary identity—and Western queerness and gender identity in general—it's critical to acknowledge colonization, the process of taking control over an indigenous population's ...
having an overlap or blur of gender and orientation and/or sex [2] (girlfags and guydykes) those who “queer” gender, in presentation or otherwise, who may or may not see themselves as non-binary or having a gender that is queer; this category may also include those who are consciousl...
Conversely, gender is the set of roles, expectations, and scripts (generally called "norms") that we ascribe to different sexes. Gender is socially constructed—meaning that gender roles appear when humans live in groups—and can vary from culture to culture.4 ...
Understanding Gender Identity A person'sgender identityis their internal sense of themselves as a woman, man, or person out of the binary. Cisgender people are those whose gender identity is the same as the gender correlated with the sex they were assigned at birth. Conversely, transgender is...
The aim of Genderqueer and Non-Binary Identities is to provide awareness, information, and resources for genderqueer, non-binary, questioning, and gender non-conforming people and their allies. ~Marilyn Roxie To resize text: CTRL+(Windows) or command+(Mac) enlarges, CTRL- or command- ...
Meaning, it’s the only kind that actually counts. This is, of course, entirely untrue. "It operates on a false assumption that people with [penises] are more likely to be a threat to a relationship than people [with vulvas]," explains Nicoletta Heidegger, MA, MEd, MFT, a sex ...
Is hiding declarations from non-Kotlin sources a valid use of@JvmSynthetic? Is it the intended use? What are the other appropriate use cases? Since@JvmSynthetichides functions from Java, they cannot be overridden in Java either (and when it comes to anabstractmember, the calls then result into...
I’d like to think this time alone has given me all sorts of insights on how I hope to navigate gender in the future. Quarantine allowed me to really “turn inward” and “sit with myself” and all the other things my green-juice-drinking L.A. friends always tell me. ...