“Neither, Actually”

Making Space for People Who Are Nonbinary

Image Caption: Picture with a blue background of a child with short, curly, blond hair staring into the camera. The child has bright blue eyeshadow on and pink lipstick. There are two hands putting a purple flower in the child’s hair.

Human beings, with life spans a short as they are, claim there are many constants in life. They have a hard time conceptualizing the thought that people with completely different world views came before, and will come after, them. As such, society believes that abstract concepts such as gender are consistently structured. In fact, the study of sex, gender, and…