today is international nonbinary people’s day and i have yet to see a single post about it on my dashboard so i have decided to be a bit annoying about it and reblog a bunch of stuff because, frankly, i am so sick of nonbinary people being an afterthought, ignored, and erased in the queer community. i hope that today and during this week (nonbinary awareness week, the 13th-20th) you, the person reading this, will take some time to engage in some meaningful allyship of the nonbinary community beyond phrases like “nonbinary people are valid,” especially if you are not nonbinary yourself. tell your nonbinary friends they matter, support nonbinary creators (especially nonbinary creators of colour!), learn how to use a set of neopronouns, read up on nonbinary-specific issues and exorsexism and how they intersect with intersex issues and oppression, learn about nonbinary gender experiences in cultures other than your own, learn about some lesser known terms and labels used by the community, stop misusing our language (transfem and transmasc) to push bioessentialist discourse within the trans community and push back against binary gender/sex division when you see it — there is so much you can do and all of it makes a difference!
nonbinary people are not only valid, but an important and foundational demographic of the queer and trans community, and we deserve to be treated as such. we deserve to be taken seriously. and to my fellow nonbinary people reading this: your existence makes the world a better place. you deserve to have your identity not just tolerated, but appreciated and respected. i love you. please stay alive
