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title: Living Beyond the Gender Binary - Further Resources
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# Living Beyond the Gender Binary - Further Resources

*A reference-list of resources for people living beyond the gender binary and their allies, prepared for myself as a memory-aid (for more carefully curated resource sets, see the 'collections')*

## Collections

- [Resources for psychologists supporting non-binary youth](https://hackmd.io/@Teq/Hywfm8C_d)
- Inter-generational relationships and transmission of movement history in queer movements
(new project being developed for https://www.thethingswedidnext.org/)
- [Quotes from beyond the gender binary](https://commonslibrary.org/quotes-from-beyond-the-gender-binary/) 

## Histories, Personal stories, and Positive representation

### Historical contexts 
- [Queer Histories and the Queer Youth Education Project, by the Australian Queer Archives](https://queerarchives.org.au/queer-youth-education-project/)
- [What do we know about queer Indigenous history?](https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/the-hook-up/indigenousqueer/9815712) The HookUp, Triple J Radio (2018)
- [Transphobia is a White Supremacist Legacy of Colonialism](https://medium.com/@Michael_Paramo/transphobia-is-a-white-supremacist-legacy-of-colonialism-e50f57240650)
- [Stonewall 50: Whose Movement Is It Anyway?](https://aapf.org/ep-5-stonewall-50), Episode 5 of the Intersectionality Matters podcast. Kimberlé Crenshaw in conversation with Barbara Smith (trailblazing Black feminist and co-founder of the Combahee River Collective) and Lady Phyll (co-founder and executive director of UK Black Pride).  
- [Rediscovering Trans History: History at the boundaries of gender](https://www.historytoday.com/reviews/rediscovering-trans-history) Catherine Baker (2020)
- An interview with [Alok Vaid-Menon](https://www.alokvmenon.com/) on how [Anne Hollander's book Sex and Suits](https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/bloomsbury-academic-podcast/e/72150779)  helps to position the history behind gendered fashion as relevant to the current uses of fashion to fight against the gender binary and racism (2020), and another on how the [history of cross-dressing laws](https://www.instagram.com/tv/CJbh64erSfM/) reflect the racism that underpins the gender-binary expectations entrenched in fashion.  

### Personal stories
- [My non-binary life Podcast](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06y51dp/episodes/downloads)
- [Being Brotherboys: coming out as transgender](https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2015/06/08/being-brotherboys-coming-out-transgender) SBS NITV (2015)
- [Sistagals: Australia’s Indigenous Gay and Trans Communities](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XReQrGyJXIE) VICE Asia (2018)
- [My disability helped me embrace my queerness: Re-evaluating masculinity through the gift of weakness](https://archermagazine.com.au/2017/08/disability-helped-embrace-queerness-re-evaluating-masculinity-gift-weakness/) Alistair Baldwin (2017)
- ReachOut Videos of young people's stories, including: [Emma's story about learning to accept herself and her gender identity](https://au.reachout.com/articles/how-emma-learnt-to-accept-herself-and-her-gender-identity), and stories by [Ashley](https://au.reachout.com/articles/ashleys-story-about-identifying-as-transgender) and [Warren](https://au.reachout.com/articles/warrens-story-about-identifying-as-transgender) on identifying as transgender. 

### Positive Representations
- [My non-binary life Podcast](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06y51dp/episodes/downloads)
- The [*Beyond Binary* BBC documentary, 2016](http://www.genderqueer.org.au/beyond-binary-with-the-bbc/) 
- [List of Notable non-binary people](https://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/Notable_nonbinary_people)  
Photography:
- [Gender Spectrum Collection](https://genderspectrum.vice.com/) - a stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the clichés. This collection aims to help media better represent members of these communities as people not necessarily defined by their gender identities—people with careers, relationships, talents, passions, and home lives.
Fiction:  
- [List of Video Games with non-binary or genderqueer characters](https://lgbtqgamearchive.com/category/characters/non-binary-or-genderqueer/non-binary-or-genderqueer-explicit/)  
- [List of Science Fiction & Fantasy Books that include non-binary (Enby) characters](https://www.aroacedatabase.com/results?gender=Enby)  
Musicians:
- [Mykki_Blanco](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykki_Blanco)
- [Tatica](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titica)

## 101: Interrogating the gender-binary assumptions 
- [Beyond the Binary](https://bookshop.org/books/beyond-the-gender-binary/9780593094655) by Alok Vaid-Menon (2020)
- Gender and sex are different: see the [Gender Unicorn](https://transstudent.org/gender/) and how it can help to [explain the differences between gender, sex, and sexuality](https://au.reachout.com/articles/the-difference-between-gender-sex-and-sexuality). Also see, the [Sex redefined](https://www.nature.com/articles/518288a) article in Nature by Claire Ainsworth (2015), and the myth-buster [Don't assume Intersex people are non-binary just because some are (and vice versa)](https://ihra.org.au/research/)
- [Is being trans a new thing?](https://www.transhub.org.au/101/is-trans-new) by TransHub
- [Describing Many Different Genders & Why it Matters](https://www.healthline.com/health/different-genders#why-it-matters)
- The [Co-Health Trans and Gender Diverse Inclusion Guide (2019)](https://www.cohealth.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/cohealth-trans-and-gender-diverse-inclusion-guide.pdf)
- [Having more than one gender identity is valid](https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/12/valid-more-than-one-gender/)
- [Being transgender is not a choice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkZ81SVUk3k) - a video by Phoenix Animations
- [Advice for allies](https://codeascraft.com/2016/10/19/being-an-effective-ally-to-women-and-non-binary-people/)
- A person's gender identity can not be assumed based on pronouns - or vice versa. See: [Transcendaus terminology advice](https://transcendaus.org/terminology-inclusive-language/) 
- [*Brotherboys And Sistergirls: We Need To Decolonise Our Attitude Towards Gender In This Country*](https://junkee.com/brotherboy-sistergirl-decolonise-gender/262222) by Hayden Moon (2020).  

 
#### Gender Identity Terms:
- [An introduction to LGBTQIA terminology](https://www.vmiac.org.au/an-introduction-to-lgbtqia-terminology/) by VMIAC.
- [*LGBTQIA+: Alphabet soup or inclusive acronym?*](https://www.wellbeing.com.au/wild/lgbtqia-meaning-inclusivity) by Rae White (2021) 
- [QTIPOC (Queer, Trans and/or Intersex Person of Colour)](https://thedrum.ds.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/OMG-Im-QTIPOC-2019-Online-Version-.pdf)
- A [Glossary of English gender and sex terminology](https://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/Glossary_of_English_gender_and_sex_terminology) (also see the [list of glossaries of gender and sex terminology in several other languages](https://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/Category:Glossaries_of_gender_and_sex_terminology)).
- [Brotherboys](https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Brotherboy_and_Sistergirl) 
- [Sistergirls](https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/people/lgbti-aboriginal-people-diversity-at-the-margins)
- [Non-Binary - as listed in the Self Defined Dictionary](https://www.selfdefined.app/definitions/non-binary/)
- Non-exhaustive lists that highlight the range of the different gender identities that have been grouped together as 'non-binary genders', such as this par of lists for [non-binary identities](https://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/List_of_nonbinary_identities) - and [uncommon non-binary gender identities](https://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/List_of_uncommon_nonbinary_identities#See_also)
- [decolonizing trans/gender 101](https://publishbiyuti.org/decolonizingtransgender101/), b. binaohan (2014)
- [The New York City Working Group on Gender and Language](http://wggl.nyc/)
 
#### Pronouns: 
- [What are pronouns and why they are important](https://www.minus18.org.au/articles/what-are-pronouns-and-why-are-they-important)
- [The Pronoun Lowdown](https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/The-Pronoun-Lowdown/Nevo-Zisin/9781925811803) by [Nevo Zisin](https://www.nevozisin.com/)
- [How to Use Pronouns](https://transstudent.org/graphics/pronouns101/)
- [Pronoun rounds, houseplants, and other ways to avoid misgendering a colleague](https://www.yacvic.org.au/blog/pronoun-rounds-and-houseplants/) 
    ![Image of a range of pronouns](https://i.imgur.com/2HiHtWa.png)
    
#### Broader LGBTQIA+ movement contexts
- [If you want to go out dancing: the corporate takeover of Pride](https://overland.org.au/2021/06/if-you-want-to-go-out-dancing-the-corporate-takeover-of-pride/) Joanne Zou (2021)
- [What we can learn from the LGBTQ movement’s 50 years of achievement](https://commonslibrary.org/what-we-can-learn-from-the-lgbtq-movements-50-years-of-achievement/) George Lakey (2019)
    

## 102: appreciating that there is a range of non-binary experiences that each differ from and intersect with other minority experiences
- [Ryan S. Gustafsson: 'On the Uses of 'Home' for thinking Trans Embodiment'](https://soundcloud.com/philosophiesofdifference/ryan-s-gustafsson-on-the-uses-of-home-for-thinking-trans-embodiment) - audio-recording from the  [Philosophies of Difference](https://philosophiesofdifference.wordpress.com/about/) 2018 [Panel on Trans & Queer Theory](https://philosophiesofdifference.wordpress.com/2018/11/08/29-11-a-panel-on-trans-queer-theory-rmit-city-campus/) at the RMIT City Campus, Melbourne. 
- [*Wentworth Miller, Mental Health Stigma, and Masked Autism* by Devon Price, 2021. Medium](https://devonprice.medium.com/wentworth-miller-mental-health-stigma-and-masked-autism-fc6642513fbc)
>"what people call 'female Autism' is not actually a phenomenon of gender. It’s a phenomenon of erasure. What people usually refer to as female Autism is in actuality something I like to call masked Autism — a manifestation of the disorder that arises from racism, homophobia, transphobia, and classism just as easily as it arises from sexism."
- [*Queer Aboriginal Voices Matter*](https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/speakingout/speaking-out/12660008), Episode 20 Sep 2020 on Speaking Out with Larissa Behrendt. A Recorded panel discussion about the challenges faced by those who identify as both queer and a person of colour. 

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Date created: 2021  
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