#GenderNonBinary

[bagoastheeunuch]

Fire keeper

Beautiful longhaired eunuch-priest of sun god Attis. Fire is a symbol of the sun. Attis - was the consort of Cybele (Agdistis, an hermaphroditic deity) in Phrygian and Greek mythology. His priests were eunuchs, the Galli in Rome, as explained by origin myths pertaining to Attis and castration. Attis was also a Phrygian god of vegetation and sun, and in his self-mutilation, death, and resurrection he represents the fruits of the earth, which die in winter only to rise again in the spring. Later, in Rome, the cult of Attis merged with the cult of Mithras. Mithra or Mithras is one of main Persian deity, sun god, god of friendship, kindness and peace, son of supreme God Aura-Mazda. Cult of Mithra was moved to Greece and Rome.

Full 4k artworks + b/w line art, 2 versions : https://www.patreon.com/posts/fire-keeper-67945115

3k artwork: https://www.patreon.com/posts/67945887

[granvarones]

NATIONAL HIV TESTING DAY

“Today is a day to feel empowered. We have the power to know our status and do something about it. If the results are negative, we can find ways to stay negative. If they are positive, we can get to undetectable. The power is within us.”

- Milani

Stop HIV Together Ambassador

Milani is an Afro-Latinx, GNC, drag queen performer, activist, gran varones fellow and the Lead Navigator for Essential Support Services at CALOR, an affiliation of AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Named one of the “POZ 100” in POZ magazine, she has worked in HIV prevention since 2008. She is a Community Ambassador for CDC’s “Let’s Stop HIV Together” Program & a Community Advisory Board member at Getting To Zero Illinois (GTZ-IL) with AIDS Foundation Chicago. She is a cast member of the film “HIV & The Journey Towards Zero” part 2 & part 3 by Tessa Films & the Chicago Department of Public Health. Milani is part of the vogue ballroom scene and the former mother of the Iconic House of Ninja. As a pageant queen and former National Diosa Latina USA Plus 2023, Milani has been able to use beauty pageants & ballroom as a platform to expand her work in HIV prevention.

[foreverthesoniag]

Happy Pride 🌈 to fellow Black and Brown Trans and Gender non conforming Queers. Let our magic, brilliance, fierceness, and tenderness guide us to the new world we are building and imagining. Remember that #pride is rooted in liberation, freedom, and standing up to injustice. Pride began as a riot. Pride is remembering our Black and Brown Trans mother’s who made it possible for us to be here- remember their legacies. Pride is about fighting for our Black Trans communities right now. Pride is about mutual aid, it is about housing, cultural equity, health care, prison abolition, migrant justice, Black liberation, disability justice.... it is all our communities- no one left behind. Pride is for us, for our tiny queer selves who are healing inside all of us. Pride is for our queer and Trans GNC elders, Pride is for our younger generations. And pride is not just one month. How do you contain such magic in one month? You can’t. We be out here every day, every night, every dimension and in all the cosmos. Happy Pride to all of you out there. Happy Pride to those in the streets and those who are not able to be in the streets. Happy Pride to all of us!!! Sending my love to all the young #Trans and #gendernonconforming #genderqueer #gendernonbinary queers out there- I see you 💜!! [ Photo of me and @oscmdiaz at NY Pride last year for @gbrlgrcrmn #QueerIcons . Shirt by @rommyyy123 ] 🦄✨☀️🌈#migrant #papifemme #artist #pridemonth #pride🌈 (at Midtown East, Manhattan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CB9YxIelj50/?igshid=1y13vk7lappoe

[the-mira-life-project-mtf]

Talked with my family today about calling me by my preferred pronouns. I have been wanting to ask them to call me by she/her as I’ve been passing as female now for five months without any mid-gendering! Yay!

A few times I found myself with my family at dinner, shopping and staying at the hotel and occasionally would be misgendered by my family that made me feel self conscious,

For example, when I was shopping with my grandmother she would constantly say ‘he’ and ‘him’, and one time at Albertsons, it got bad:

The cashier comments “You ladies find everything you were looking for?” as I replied

“Yes we most certainly did! Even more then expected!”

The cashier scanned our groceries and looked to my grandmother “Would you like any help out today?”

“No I have him to help me.”

The cashier glanced at me, tight lipped as a man waiting in line who seemed friendly at first glared at me as I just wanted to go.

For a few hours, I dwelled on all I’ve experienced as I thought ‘I can’t afford to take her shopping.’

I was cooking dinner and walked over to my grandmother as I said “I need to talk to you about something that might be hard to hear; but I liked it if you called me by my preferred pronouns. She...”

“I’m sorry, I don’t understand.”

“I like you to please call me she or her when we are out. I am mostly passing now as female, I present myself accordingly and besides, I am legallly female now.”

I then explained my reasoning “Today shopping, the gentleman behind us just glared at me...judging me. I was highly uncomfortable!” “Even though nothing happened, one day you might identify me as being trans and someone messed up in the head might feel my existence is a threat to their ideology and end up shooting or stabbing me!”

“I am sorry.” she says as she nods her head “So you want to be called a woman...”

“Yes.” I reply.

“Okay, though might take me awhile to get use to it.”

I nod, smiling. “I understand...I am still learning myself.”

When my mother and sister came home, I was wondering how to present this change to them (as before, I never required anyone to call me Mira or a woman...but with my transition tipping the scales towards feminine). Surprisingly, grandmother broke the news as I nodded, saying that I understand it will take time.

It is another major step in my transition!

[labrujitaverde]

Gender is stupid. ❤️✨ A tribute to my non-binary pals and specially my partner, it is very hard to inhabit an identity that sometimes even our queer siblings will deny and gate keep people out of it, I want you all enbys to know this account is a safe space, you’re seen, validated and loved YOU ARE VALID!

[kickasstransdumbass]

When ur trans-nuetral

[oliverpricedcoffee]

Almost Six Months

I'm approaching six months on fairly low dose of T prescription and feeling down. People are quick to see female when they look at me. I get ma'am and miss on the spot and don't understand. What's wrong with me? Why haven't I changed?

Why am I feeling this depressed about myself?

[forestzy]

when i think a genderbent version of my persona, I basically flip my character's features because -- I and they don't identify with a binary gender

example, they have a goatee and have long ass hair that goes halfway down their shins

and they like when people play with their hair when I didn't like it when I had longer hair-

if i had tbh im jealous of it but I love my short hair that doesn't give me dysphoria-

[bagoastheeunuch]

HQ 3k full artwork + steps process

I started this work back in 2020, drawing slowly, returning from time to time. Finished art in 2024.

I had a lot of different thoughts, but... I won’t voice them now.

Just enjoy: beautiful palace eunuchs in a Persian palace. Ancient time. Not all eunuchs looked like this, but these were the most beautiful, talented and intelligent ones chosen to serve the king. They became favorites of king or kings closed ones, and some became shadow rulers.

They could be of different nationalities, since the Persian Empire was huge. From the Scythians to the Arabs, from the Turks to the Greeks. Also, in ancient Persia, eununchs were respected.

It’s not that this is a historical reconstruction, I don’t like to draw historical reconstructions, since we don’t know how everything really happened, and in order to avoid false interpretations, I will say that these are my original characters.

[granvarones]

This is an offering, my offering to you and in giving this offering to you, I enrich myself. I am doing this because, as they say “time is of the essence” and because I come from a lineage that finds spiritual work in the giving of gifts. My mother and my maternal grandmother gave food as offering, feeding those they loved made them full. For me, currently, fullness looks like sharing the food of my thoughts. My mind has been racing, during this current moment, as I am sure so many of us can relate. Growing up in a world that doesn’t like Black people talking outwardly about how we are, made me fold into myself and convene with my shadow self. There I dreamt a lot and there I became used to silencing my voice. But there inside of us all, is a key to unlearning the socialization of quiet and the making of smallness from the weight of violence that comes from being seen.

I’ve been exploring the theory of radical transparency. I came to use this term after my HIV diagnosis. Slowly I emerged from a place of restrictive secrecy, fully embracing who I am and who I’ve always been, there lurking in the shadows. I had some failed periods of disclosure and became deeply depressed, because the world suggests and imposes perfect disclosure when you’re HIV positive. To disclose means your good and to not disclose means you’re bad. There is no grace. At this moment, feeling deeply ashamed, I had some time to sit in silence. Sitting in silence made me remember the power of folding into myself, of looking at the deepest parts of me and coming to a place of reconciliation. Reminding myself that performing goodness is something that has imposed itself on me and that my duty or job in life is to augment my energetic offering and that happens through brutal honesty. That means that I don’t live at the behest of perfection. It was in those moments that I discovered the necessity of sharing.

Radical transparency is a term that I would learn was used before, to critique government and also discuss information technology but that isn’t what conjured for me. It meant the folding out of my shadow self, the banning of the dishonesty that comes when we curate our stories to be digestible to others. It meant that when asked how I was, I would respond forthright. Not sugarcoating anything, simply stating my day is bad, if indeed it was a bad day. In embracing this new practice I found that the anxiety of judgment was suspended, I found sanctuary in telling my truth unedited. Before I would never contend with my shadow, I would make it my burden. It was like holding the weight of the world while also carrying its shadow value. What I mean by shadow value is that when you think of the labor of carrying the world, there is that which is unaccounted for the work it takes to even stand. This compounds the burden we assume is ours. I’m here to tell you that it isn’t. Those projected debts we shoulder because we assume our very existence is a burden, isn’t ours, it belongs to the systems we find ourselves within.

I come to you with a full heart, giving this food, as is a custom in my lineage. Sharing my thoughts at the moment and wanting to be heard. I guess I’m here to tell you that the fruits are blessed, there is sanctity in the way you disrupt the world. I’m here to tell you that while there are penalties, in this world, for your Blackness and queerness, there is power in your profane. The way you rage, the way you tell the truth, isn’t for anyone else but it can heal the world. So, my offering is to show yourself onto yourself and therefore become free of the gazes that glance at and mock you. When you see your shadow, don’t run, sit still in it’s silence and beautiful magic will arise. Say this with me: “I am my own question, that I hold the answer to.”

Àṣẹ

A Note on attribution: When I discuss penalties for Blackness and the power of the profane, I take graciously from the language of my comrade and sibling Shani Akilah.

Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad is a Black queer HIV positive organizer and writer from Philadelphia.

Pour into Abdul’s work: Cash App: $Dulle Venmo: Abdul-Aliy

Photo by: SNAX

[seldomcomformist]

Hey Everyone!

[foreverthesoniag]

Happy #internationalpronounsday . My name is Sonia Guiñansaca, I go by they/them. Most times people try to box me inside the binary, but I’m too fluid and cool for that. I was assigned at birth female, but i do not align with that marker. I am #papifemme , and most times people think because I am femme I cannot be #genderqueer #gendernonbinary #gendernonconforming . Through out my twenties I explored what my gender was and so happy to be in community with other queers that helped me navigate that journey. Sometimes we are shamed into thinking we are too old to “find ourselves” , or that we need to fit into a particular language and framework. Often being they/them or #gendernonconforming I am expected to present in an “androgynous skinny and able bodied masculine of center way” but fuck that!! Femme can be they/them. Femmes can be #gendernoncomforming . And guess what, I’m still on this journey, but meanwhile and currently please respect how I go by. Don’t “she” me. Don’t erase me or disrespect me. [ side note : stop using they/them pronouns for cis people who go exclusively by she/her or he/him. This overuse of they/them on cis bodies for “coolness” is not cool. Everyday there are folks fighting for their they/them pronouns to be respected and you all are out here just using it incorrectly and overusing on folks who do not even use those pronouns. It’s thoughtless and disrespectful for gendernonconforming people who use they/them. So cut it out!! ] #qtpoc #latinx #queer https://www.instagram.com/p/B3sr9c_F1DQ/?igshid=a00qx2mls1ya

[the-mira-life-project-mtf]

Received My New License & Social Security Cards (Still Waiting On Birth Certificate) (My MtF~HRT Journey)

Well, it was been about two weeks, but it is now ‘legally’ official (in my mind): I am now fully Mira Carleen and no longer David Joseph.

Since my exciting court order, I have been in this state of realization that by law, the identity of David Joseph no longer exists. In the world, there are two other David Joseph Bruer’s: one living in Australia and another somewhere near Germany...so, the name does not die with me. But the name Mira Carleen Messinger is just one person: me!

Today I received two licenses...one correct and one misspelled. So I placed the misspelled one aside and celebrate my new life as I am able to begin switching over everything else: (bank, medical, memberships).

I still need to get my title to my car switched, reorder my birth certificate and call my insurance companies as it is official (and by state law, it is illegal to continue using my old name).

So comes the slow and tedious task of switching everything and accepting my new life as a female too.

Interestily, if you look at the heavily redacted licenses...not only has my name and gender changed...so has I! The image on my old license was taken before my HRT and the license is current. I was shocked to see how much I’ve changed. There is still similarities between the two, but the cheeks and skin texture is different and hair much longer. I have not totally reached my ideal facial feminization and know that by 2023 when I renew, the images will change again!

[bi-buddha]

[mboihah]

#pride hoes, love is love as long as it’s legal and human (until we find sexy aliens of course)

[hopeisreal42]

“Genderbender Joy” The genderqueer flag blackout poem I’m trying to do more lgbtq inspired art. I love this one. From a book about x-files. #mentalhealth #outandproud #joy #grateful #gratitude #gratefuleveryday #gladtobealive #focusonthegood #bethechange #goodvibrations #positivevibes #positivenergy #artistsofig #artheals #hopeisreal #alifeworthliving #createalifeyoulove #genderqueer #genderqueerpride #gendernonbinary #blackoutpoetry #blackoutpoetrycommunity #blackoutpoem #blackoutpoetrytribe #lgbtpride https://www.instagram.com/p/BtzasjsBCVb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=g0a3k0cfopvv