'Last year, I came out as nonbinary, and this new experience of gender is rapidly altering my relationship with feminism.'
The first Women’s History Month was celebrated in 1987, the year I was born. Inadvertently I spent my whole life celebrating this month as a woman, until 2020. Last year, I came out as nonbinary, and this new experience of gender is rapidly altering my relationship with feminism.
On the day of the event I entered the room and found myself surrounded by mostly cisgendered women who never stated their pronouns and never asked mine. My identity didn’t line up with the others who were in the room. I felt like a misplaced object in the popular “one of these things is not like the other” Sesame Street skit.
The definition of feminism is “the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.” You don’t have to be a woman to be a feminist. If large groups of ciswomen are sitting in conversation with each other, segregated from other gender expressions, the movement becomes limited. In this circumstance, the ability to have nuanced conversations about the deep and lasting impacts of gender inequality can only be seen through one lens.
In a live video on Instagram on International Women’s Day, well-known nonbinary activist Alok spoke about the need for inclusive feminism. They stated, “Feminism is about the expansion and horizon of a possibility. Offering an invitation to a more just and more free world for all people, where the logics of heteronormative reproduction don’t hold us back.”
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