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In those heavy days in June,

When love became an act of defiance.

(A landscape piece combining the colours of my pride flags.)

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It's Agender Pride Day, here's some personal art from me

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Happy pride month to nonbinary people!! Every single enban and enby, out for one day or out for all your life, and those yet to be out, have a great pride! Enbiness is something to be celebrated, leaving the binary behind and living your own life is beautiful and should be celebrated!! Genderqueers, neuters, inverts, androgynes and bi-genders fought for our ability to be able to be a united nonbinary community today, and that fight cannot die, or be washed in any capitalistic or liberal manner. Nonbinary pride is revolutionary!! Nonbinary celebration and love is revolutionary and something to be proud of!!! Happy pride fellow enben!!

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Medical transition is a lot more accessible than it used to be. Back in the day, if you wanted bottom surgery, you had to trade your voice away to a sea witch.

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"Yeah, I understand the nonbinaries! A she/they is when a girl is quirky. A they/them is when the quirky girl has short hair and is a tomboy. A he/they is when the short hair tomboy girl wears men's clothes and has a boy name. Nonbinary people who were assigned male at birth? Nonbinary people on HRT? Neopronouns? That's scary, I don't know."

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the thing about being nonbinary is that you really do start to forget that other people have such strict walls around what is and isn’t allowed for genders. i thought we all agreed that we made that up. could you climb out of the cave real quick and feel the sunshine for a minute.

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miserable that there is no way 2 avoid being treated as either a man or woman

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You transitioning is never a loss for the world.

We're not losing a Good Feminist Man who defies toxic masculinity by embracing his feminine side - we're gaining a wonderful trans woman.

We're not losing a lesbian, or a cool tomboy, or an inspirational woman making it in a male-dominated field - we're gaining a fantastic trans man.

Being who you truly are is the best thing you can do, both for the world and for yourself.

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Mx & Match would be a great name for a nonbinary dating app.

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My transmasc experience was being fine being seen as a girl but growing up and hating the idea of being seen as a woman. “Young woman” was too much for me even before I knew I was trans. Womanhood seemed to come with so many more expectations for gender conformity than girlhood. As many other trans men and mascs have shared, about when I hit puberty was when I started being gifted makeup and spa kits that I was so uninterested in and never used, instead of toys and books and art supplies like before. I understand what people mean when they say “child” is treated like a separate gender.

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Non-binary people, thoughts on the term “enby”

I hate it (and explain if you want)

I love it

I’m neutral or I don’t care

I have nuanced feelings (explain if you feel like it)

I want to click something

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So I read Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe (colors by eir sister Pheobe Kobabe) and let me tell you all:

I fucking cried because I felt recognized in the pages of eir story. There were so many moments when reading when I had to pause and acknowledge "this is exactly what I did/was like/experienced as a child" and despite expecting a couple of those moments the accuracy of them blew me away.

Also the art is gorgeous and the way e weaves all the pieces and stories together makes it such a great read. I highly reccomend Gender Queer to everyone because it's can really give words to ideas & concepts you may be considering/feeling and/or explain things in a way that you may not have considered before.

One part that stood out to me is the concept of balance. Since e is afab there's so many things that can be used to "balance" that in terms of gender such as a short hair cut for them (or a massive undercut for me.) But also the idea that if you were born amab the options to acheive balance are much different and thus can leave you with the desire to have been born a different gender so that you could use different things to balance rather than feeling like you have to chose from a given set. (This is my takeaway/interpretation from this section/the whole book, not exactly what e wrote.) The whole concept really struck a cord with me and made me feel seen in a way that made me seriously happy.

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[ID: The running away balloon meme. In the first panel, a person, labelled “me, an enby”, reaches for a yellow balloon, labelled “a video game where you create a virtual avatar”. In the second panel, a second person, labelled “"Are you a boy or a girl?“”, holds back the first person, who looks nervous. End ID]

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The ghost of gender past, the ghost of gender present, and the ghost of gender yet to come.

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Some flags with paper airplanes for anon