sext: i’m stuck in my binder again please help
I do this comic: Poly in Pictures
Chronic-fatigued, autistic, agender, asexual, aromantic, very connected to polyamory. For the moment, anyway. Part-time knitter. Want to live in a housing co-op. Preferred pronoun: singular they.
Transgender people in Greece are now being rounded up and detained in a continuation of the social cleansing of the “undesirables”.FUCK.
THIS.
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These people are trying to raise £3,000 to host Trans* Pride in Brighton, after being unable to secure a grant. You can donate here.
YA Books About Transgender Characters
There haven’t been a lot of young adult books published about transgender characters. This list is not meant to be a “best of” list — it is simply a list of the titles that we are aware of, and we are sure there are more we aren’t aware of. This list is limited to titles published specifically for a young adult audience, which means titles published for adults that teens might still enjoy aren’t included.
- I am J by Cris Beam (Little, Brown)
- One in Every Crowd by Ivan E. Coyote (Arsenal Pulp)
- Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kirstin Cronn-Mills (Flux)
- Happy Families by Tanita S. Davis (Knopf)
- f2m: the boy within by Hazel Edwards and Ryan Kennedy (Ford Street Publishing, Australia)
- Being Emily by Rachel Gold (Bella Books)
- Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde (Knopf)
- Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher (Delacorte)
- Luna by Julie Anne Peters (Little, Brown)
- Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger (Simon & Schuster)
Do you have a favorite YA book about a transgender character? Please tell us why you loved it!
I want to give special shout-outs to Luna and Parrotfish, two of my favorite YA novels.
I’d also add that Every Day by David Levithan is, in a way, a really good book about a non-binary character. Part of what makes A and Rhiannon’s love story so unique and compelling is that it exists outside of binary constructions of gender and sex identity.
sext: i’m stuck in my binder again please help
I just wanted to remind everyone of this again; it’ll be running for another month or so and there’s been plenty of responses, but you never know who’d’ve filled it in had they not missed it the first time around.
I’m running a bit of an informal data-gathering thing to see how people express their nonbinary gender. I’ll publish the statistical results in July 2013 in the form of graphs and charts.
You will not be asked for your name, sex/gender assigned at birth, or email address. For information on the safety and anonymity of your information here, and when filling in other online surveys, click here: http://lottelodge.tumblr.com/post/50751981387
Is there anywhere online which is good for non-binary presentation tips and experiences? The closest I come to finding anything helpful is FtM passing tips, but they kind of over-masculinise everything and accentuate that you have to dress… well… boring, really. And that you have to have pretty plain hair. I don’t want to look like a dudebro, I just want to present as myself whilst making people think twice about my gender… more effectively than I am currently doing…
So, anyone know any alt/dark/gothic FtM/ NB people? Alternatively, any tips or links?I’d love to find a guide/tips for this! I agree that all things like this for FAAB non-cis people are ftm blogs that just try and make you as masculine and bland as possible in order to pass as cismale.
The best guide I’ve found so far is this, which on the one hand is by no means perfect (at least for me) but on the other hand is good to just pick and choose certain bits you like the sound of and give them a go.
There is a page of Practical Resources on the nonbinary.org wiki, and at the end it has sections on Presentation and Physical Changes.
A lot of the links are still red, but maybe if we all add the little bits that we know, we can fill the wiki with a wealth of useful stuff?
I mean really, it’s dishonest to not let people know that you’re cis, what if somebody discovers you’ve had the same name and gender marker since birth? I wouldn’t blame them for being upset and leaving so they can get time to process that stuff, but you have to be fair, normal people can be cisphobic sometimes and it’s a bit weird dealing with someone who’s always had the same name and always will. So for your own sake, put it in your profile that you’re cis, do whatever, just as long as you disclose it early and don’t trick any regular people.
I am autistic and have sensory sensitivities, especially around noise.
I am agender, gynecorpid, bind in public but am not visibly stubby etc.
I am normally read as female; that is, strangers either don’t use gendered words to talk to me or they use feminine words such as “love”. (Round here, love is definitely not ever used to men you’ve never met.)
Since getting noise-cancelling headphones and having them around my neck at all times in public to help me cope with unexpected background noise, the only gendered words used by strangers when talking to me have been masculine.
Pro passing tip: if you’re pretty androgynous in appearance, wear £300 over-ear headphones as a fashion accessory to be consistently read as male.
Apparently. o.O
I like to get Sainsbury’s food delivered because I’m quite chronic. Their titles include lovely options like “Sir”, which I have chosen. But no Mx.
Here’s a link to their Contact Us form, and here’s what I’ve written:
Hello. :) I identify as neither male nor female, which is most often referred to as nonbinary or genderqueer. As such, your list of titles contains nothing that fits for me; Ms and Mr are both wrong, and titles like Dr require a qualification that I don’t have. I’ve got “Sir” as my title at the moment, because it’s a bit silly, but it often causes confusion when your delivery personnel arrive and ask me to prove my identity; I hardly seem like a Sir to your drivers, in my shared accommodation and with 24 packs of instant noodles. I would very much like a title that fits who I am. The most common gender-inclusive title available is Mx; here is the URL of a document with more information and evidence of the UK government and various other high-profile organisations using Mx: scribd.com/doc/137340953 I am currently unable to deselect the title Sir in the “My Details” form ([URL]) - would you consider adding a “blank” option or a gender-inclusive title such as Mx for me and many other nonbinary people in the UK? Many thanks.
It seems that I am eternally telling you about the emails I send but never telling you about the responses I get. That’s because I’m not getting many responses these days. I welcome criticism of my letter-writing skills. ;)
