Great article, thank you! I agree with your opinion about "Gender Outlaw". There is a revised and updated edition from 2016 and I listened to the audiobook version, narrated by Kate Bornstein.
I also use the short form "trans woman" in most cis contexts. In trans communities I use "trans Femme" and still have to explain that I dropped the label nonbinary.
And as a theoretical chemist I highly recommend thinking in multidimensional vector spaces. 🥹
I felt like I had to start with "Gender Outlaw" because all of this is an educational process, and that very few of us have gotten to the point where we have the granularity of identity needed to truly appreciate the beauty of the gender aspects of identity. "Gender Outlaw", for instance, was mind-boggling to a freshly-cracked egg who still viewed gender as this binary thing. In terms of gender, "Gender Outlaw" was kind of like going from the Bohr model to finding out that probabilistic electron "clouds" are a thing; suddenly what was set and concrete was far more fluid, far more variable, but there's still more granularity, still more beauty to discover.
I still have a lot to learn. We all do. That's the beauty of all this; there's so much out there!
Great article, thank you! I agree with your opinion about "Gender Outlaw". There is a revised and updated edition from 2016 and I listened to the audiobook version, narrated by Kate Bornstein.
I also use the short form "trans woman" in most cis contexts. In trans communities I use "trans Femme" and still have to explain that I dropped the label nonbinary.
And as a theoretical chemist I highly recommend thinking in multidimensional vector spaces. 🥹
Thanks, Sasha.
I felt like I had to start with "Gender Outlaw" because all of this is an educational process, and that very few of us have gotten to the point where we have the granularity of identity needed to truly appreciate the beauty of the gender aspects of identity. "Gender Outlaw", for instance, was mind-boggling to a freshly-cracked egg who still viewed gender as this binary thing. In terms of gender, "Gender Outlaw" was kind of like going from the Bohr model to finding out that probabilistic electron "clouds" are a thing; suddenly what was set and concrete was far more fluid, far more variable, but there's still more granularity, still more beauty to discover.
I still have a lot to learn. We all do. That's the beauty of all this; there's so much out there!