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Non-binary and genderqueer identity

To identify outside the binary is not to be undecided but to decline a choice that does not describe your actual experience — to say that the categories on offer are insufficient rather than that you are. Non-binary identities ask everyone to examine what they assume about gender and why those assumptions feel so stable and so obvious; the resistance such identities provoke is often evidence of how much work the binary is doing to hold a particular social order together. The question is not what to do with people who don't fit, but what the ill-fit reveals about the container.

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Claiming Space for Existence and VisibilityIntellectual Autonomy and Gender Self-DefinitionJustice as Personal and Structural TransformationLanguage as Identity Creation and ConstraintSelf-Knowledge as Revolutionary ActStrategic Ambiguity and Protective OpacityThe Body-Mind Divide and Its DissolutionThe Masculine Mind, the Feminine Spirit, Beyond BothThe Refusal to Choose: Both/And Rather Than Either/OrThe Spiritual Life Beyond Institutional Control