For most people there’s male and female, masculine and feminine. We’re used to duality as a way of seeing the world: Plato, Descartes, Manichaeanism, all taught us that the ways of the world are easily divided into two – night and day, good and bad, mind over matter, mythos and logos.

Fitting Into Gender Categories As A Non-Binary Person (From Nox)

“To write is to claim the audacity to speak and the courage to yield, to dare for a moment to care for ourselves in speech, in writing, and in solitude.”

Sophia Burns looks at gender roles on paper vs. in practice, and the division of labor underlying both.