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"Nonbinary Trans Identities" published on by Oxford University Press.

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This article discusses the representations and narratives of transmasculinities in selected works by contemporary Anglophone nonbinary writers assigned female at birth. After briefly introducing the primary sources, I explain how this selection of texts allows for an analysis that contributes to widening the conventional conceptualisation of masculinities as related only to biological men and trans men, and I specify the kinds of masculinities discussed in the article. I then concentrate on three prominently featured themes in the analysed narratives: rejection and erasure within the lesbian and feminist communities, confusion caused by the authors' identities in their everyday lives, and nonbinary parenting-related issues. Exploring how the authors write about these themes illuminates not only how they textually construct their diverse masculinities but also some of the key challenges they navigate: identity unintelligibility, invisibility, and the threat of involuntary complicity in the patriarchal order.

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This essay attempts to imagine what nonbinary gender might be through an autotheoretical and imaginative email exchange between the author, as "X," and the author's gender as nonbinary. Indeed, theorized conversationally throughout are the difficulties and potentialities of nonbinary gender, or nonbinariness as a refusal of gender.

"Nonbinary gender identities are those that fall outside the traditional binary of "man" and "woman." These include genderfluid, androgynous, genderqueer, and a multitude of other identity terms, some of which overlap. Although there have always been people who identify outside the gender binary, only recently have they gained popular media attention. Despite some visibility, however, nonbinary gender identities are poorly understood by the general public. It is critically important for gender minorities to find themselves in the media that they consume. Just as important is the need for those outside the minority community to understand and appreciate them. Nonbinary gender identities are represented in books and other media, but these resources prove difficult to locate, as classification vocabulary doesn't evolve as quickly as community language. Reference sources identified include archives and special collections, theses and dissertations, key journals, and related organizations and associations. This timely resource--the first reference on nonbinary gender identities--offers an accessible entry into researching this topic. Written by a nonbinary scholar and librarian, this guide includes valuable appendixes that will aid every researcher and writer: a glossary of the rich vocabulary emerging from nonbinary communities; a guide to pronoun usage; a primer on sex, sexuality, and gender; and Library of Congress Classification information."

As a morphologically rich Slavic language, Czech contains many possibilities for nonbinary language use. The broad aim of this article is to provide insights into existing and emerging nonbinary language strategies and the metadiscourses that surround them. After outlining the available means of gender-fair language, the analysis turns to possibilities for expressing nonbinarity, presenting emic insights regarding nonbinary community members' own language use, choices, innovations and metalinguistic reflections, as well as wider out-group responses. Discourses coming from the nonbinary community draw attention to less understood connections of language, self-expression, authenticity and social perception, whereas outgroup discourses draw on broad views of what is 'natural' in language and society. Emerging voices suggest that despite the general absence of debates surrounding nonbinary language in Czech academia and public discourse, much is happening 'underground' in personal language use and community interactions, reflecting the ongoing negotiation of tensions between gender-normative structures and the range of feasible agentive practices used to subvert them.Cestina jako morfologicky bohaty slovansky jazyk nabizi mnoho moznosti pro nebinarni vyjadrovani. Sirsim cilem clanku je poskytnout vhled do vznikajicich i jiz existujicich jazykovych strategii a taktez do metadiskurzu, ktere je obklopuji. Po nastineni dostupnych prostredku genderove vyvazeneho jazyka se analyza zameruje na moznosti vyjadreni nebinarity a predstavuje emicke poznatky tykajici se vlastniho uzivani jazyka nebinarni komunitou, jejich volby, inovace a metajazykove reflexe, stejne jako sirsi reakce mimo komunitu. Diskurzy vychazejici z nebinarni komunity se venuji predevsim mene znamym souvislostem jazyka, sebevyjadreni, autenticity a socialni percepce, zatimco diskurzy pochazejici mimo tuto skupinu venuji pozornost predevsim sirsimu kontextu toho, co je a neni v jazyce a spolecnosti ,,prirozene". Objevujici se hlasy naznacuji, ze navzdory obecne absenci debat o nebinarnim jazyce v ceskem akademickem prostredi a verejnem diskurzu se toho hodne deje ,,pod povrchem", tj. v osobnim uzivani jazyka, v interakcich dane komunity, coz odrazi probihajici obrusovani hran mezi genderove normativnimi strukturami a skalou moznych agentivnich praktik k jejich prekonani.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: From Genderqueer to Nonbinary to . . . / Wilchins, Riki -- Introduction / Rajunov, Micah / Duane, Scott -- PART ONE. What Is Gender? -- Chapter One. War Smoke Catharsis / Stitt, Alex -- Chapter Two. Deconstructing My Self / Govoni, Levi S. -- Chapter Three. Coatlicue / Hernandez, Féi -- Chapter Four. Namesake / Jones, Michal -- Chapter Five. My Genderqueer Backpack / Welter, Melissa L. -- Chapter Six. Scrimshaw / Theodore, Rae -- PART TWO. Visibility: Standing Up and Standing Out -- Chapter Seven. Being Genderqueer Before It Was a Thing / Beemyn, Genny -- Chapter Eight. Token Act / Chang, Sand C. -- Chapter Nine. Hypervisible / Wilvich, Haven -- Chapter Ten. Making Waves in an Unforgiving Maze / Ackerman, Kameron -- Chapter Eleven. Life Threats / Marsh, Jeffrey -- Chapter Twelve. Just Genderqueer, Not a Threat / Valcore, Jace -- PART THREE. Community: Creating a Place for the Rest of Us -- Chapter Thirteen. What Am I? / Combs, Ck -- Chapter Fourteen. Questions of Faith / Ware, Jaye -- Chapter Fifteen. Coming Out as Your Nibling: What Happened When I Told Everyone I Know That I'm Genderqueer / Sexsmith, Sinclair -- Chapter Sixteen. Purple Nail Polish / Price, Jamie -- Chapter Seventeen. Uncharted Path: Parenting My Agender Teen / Abigail -- Chapter Eighteen. The Name Remains the Same / Koonce, Katy -- PART FOUR. Trans Enough: Representation and Differentiation -- Chapter Nineteen. Lowercase Q / Sparrow, Cal -- Chapter Twenty. Not Content on the Sidelines / Chase, Suzi -- Chapter Twenty-One. You See Me Brian / Eley, Jay -- Chapter Twenty-Two. Clothes Make the Gender/Queer / Drake, Aubri -- Chapter Twenty-Three. The Flight of the Magpie / Stevenson, Adam -- Chapter Twenty-Four. An Outsider in My Own Landscape / Smith, S. E. -- PART FIVE. Redefining Dualities: Paradoxes and Possibilities of Gender -- Chapter Twenty-Five. Not- Two / Erickson, Avery -- Chapter Twenty-Six. Kitchen Sink Gender / Nino, Cipri -- Chapter Twenty-Seven. What Growing Up Punk Taught Me About Being Gender Nonconforming / Soto, Christopher -- Chapter Twenty-Eight. Rock a Bye Binary / De La Cruz, Jules -- Chapter Twenty-Nine. To Gender and Back / Kory, Martin- Damon -- Chapter Thirty. Rethinking Non/Binary / Erlick, Eli -- Acknowledgments -- Further Reading -- Contributors

Abstract: This article places Marcella Althaus-Reid's theological reflection on popular devotion to the figure of Santa Librada in Argentina in conversation with scholarship on androgyny, nonbinary identity, and medieval gender-crossing saints. Tying together strands of medieval writing on wondrous bodies and contemporary articulations of nonbinary identity foregrounds how nonbinary embodiments destabilize modern conceptions of binary gender. Although I am not suggesting a return to premodern conceptions of the body, medieval texts are instructive insofar as they offer an epistemology of embodiment that evades the consolidation of binary categories of sex and gender.

"Transgender and Nonbinary Gender Policy in the Public Sector" published on by Oxford University Press.

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This paper explores how ten nonbinary North American YouTubers appeal to legitimizing discourses
(van Leeuwen & Wodak 1999) as rationalizations for their choices regarding
identity labels and pronouns. Given the local cultural salience of the implications of their language choices, the YouTubers
rationalize their terminological choices through legitimizing discourses that prioritize historical facts, lexical
definitions, and personal feelings. I examine how these discourses presuppose particular
language ideologies, or implicit assumptions about what language users view as "appropriate" language practices. In the
case of the nonbinary YouTubers, I illustrate that the vloggers' legitimizing discourses appeal to and juxtapose a referentialist
ideology (Hill 2008, Silverstein 1979),
according to which words should describe the world truthfully, and an ideology of self-identification (Zimman 2019), which prioritizes individual agency. Crucially, deploying these legitimizing discourses is
an important strategy that nonbinary YouTubers draw on as part of their advocacy and education projects.

Abstract: This essay argues that nonbinary artist Kris Grey deploys a genderqueer aesthetic to undo taxonomy. Their ceramic sculpture and performance art cross and diffuse binaries through reversals, implosions, conversations, and invitations. I contextualize Grey's art within the work of other contemporary artists who have creatively investigated and engineered gender, sex, and sexuality. Following Vittorio Gallese, I argue that Grey's embodied images haptically share nonbinary physicality with audiences. Through centrifugal and centripetal reconfigurations, they make new experiences visible, imaginable, and available. Following Caroline Walker Bynum, I argue that by queerly foregrounding the nonbinary underpinning of a master aesthetic discourse, Grey shows the seemingly unfamiliar nonbinary body to be affectively comprehensible.

AbstractI argue against the exclusive female/male divide, referring to the phenomenon of epistemic injustice in the cases of people with nonbinary gender identities and people with intersex traits. Such people have traits that are counterexamples to the binary female/male model. I have separated female and male traits into nine basic layers, five of which belong to sex (chromosomes, gonads, internal sex organs, external genitals, and secondary sex characteristics) and four to gender (gender identity, legal gender, external gender presentation, and gender pronouns). In every layer, I have found traits that are neither female nor male, and the application of the model to individuals provides examples of clusters of traits for which one layer is male and another female. Such traits and clusters of traits create the category of the nonbinary. Table 1 provides a sketch of a nonbinary model. The nonbinary category takes its name from the existing category of nonbinary gender identity; however, in the current model, it is a third category of traits, not of people. Under the nonbinary model, the basic gender concepts do not disappear.Sis a woman ifSis a human being with enough female traits, and the trait of having self-determined female gender identity is sufficient but not necessary.

"The Zoomer generation has created a postidentity revolution by expressing their substantially complicated understanding of bisexuality, which includes sexual, romantic, and gender fluidity; pansexuality; genderqueer and gender non-binary identities; and a host of other ways of experiencing and describing sexual, romantic, and gender aspects of the self"--