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...
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.
作者简介
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Alok Vaid-Menon is a gender non-conforming writer, performance artist, and public speaker who has been featured by HBO, MTV, NBC, The Guardian, The New York Times, and more. Their creative challenge to the gender binary has been celebrated around the world.
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People judge gender non-conformity because they are insecure about their identities. If they weren't, then gender variance wouldn't be so heavily policed. Gender non-conformity causes such a huge reaction because we're consistently taught that there are only two fixed and universal genders. Seeing other people defy this mandate brings the entire system into question. (查看原文)
The thing about disgust is that it makes prejudice physical. And just because something is physical doesn't mean that it's *natural*. In fact, our bodies are trained to respond to certain things over others. Learned behaviors can also be *unlearned*: it's possible to develop more kind and just ways of relating to ourselves and one another. What we look like isn't gross; what is truly disgusting is how we shame one another for our physical appearances.
We do remarkable things with jealousy and fear. Rather than naming them and acknowledging them when we are operating from them, we repress them and pretend they aren't there. Jealousy, even when disguised with big language, is still jealousy -- an emotion that makes both you and me small. Others will project their insecurity on you because it... (查看原文)
关于非二元性别的入门小册子。Non-binary people are reduced to spectacles, in which the harassment they experience becomes part of the show. 关于宽容和接纳的区别：宽容是保持距离的事不关己，接纳是把不同和多样融入自己的生活，意识到自己是其中的一部分，需要多学习来帮助社会接纳。
1 有用 阿芒 2022-05-08 17:24:11
论据是不充分的，但我支持取消标准和分类。尊重个体的多样特征当然好，只是要为管理的方便和生殖目的服务的话，authorities怎么可能同意呢。另外我疑惑的是，既然sex和gender都不用二元化分，那也就不存在trans一说了吧。You can just simply be who you are.
0 有用 顾予美 2022-12-26 00:38:46 加拿大
关于非二元性别的入门小册子。Non-binary people are reduced to spectacles, in which the harassment they experience becomes part of the show. 关于宽容和接纳的区别：宽容是保持距离的事不关己，接纳是把不同和多样融入自己的生活，意识到自己是其中的一部分，需要多学习来帮助社会接纳。
0 有用 wherehastreebe 2023-06-02 06:07:05 美国
Alok字字珠玑。
0 有用 苏诺 2022-04-21 07:55:17
Gender nonconforming入门读物，浅显易懂。Everything is connected. (A recommended.)
0 有用 Manifest2me 2023-01-01 01:58:29 美国
The word ‘gender-nonconforming’ presumes the gender binary. The language itself as a mean to enforce the normative needs to be dismantled.