UnAfraid & Free

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gender role nonconformity

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/opinion/my-daughter-is-not-transgender-shes-a-tomboy.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Somehow, as we have broadened our awareness of and support for gender nonconformity, we've narrowed what we think a boy or a girl can look like and do.

While celebrating the diversity of sexual and gender identities, we also need to celebrate tomboys and other girls who fall outside the narrow confines of gender roles.

But why the word "tomboy"? "A girl who looks and/or acts like a boy" still defines the person in terms of preexisting framing social structures...

Nic Haralambous

Given the option, I’d choose the way I’m most familiar with

preferably no surprises, nasty or nice

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See things that are sometimes too small to notice

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