Beyond the Gender Binary
Ratings20
Average rating4.2
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Ratings20
Average rating4.2
Winner of the 2021 In The Margins Award "When reading this book, all I feel is kindness."-- Sam Smith, Grammy and Oscar award-winning singer and songwriter "Thank God we have Alok. And I'm learning a thing or two myself."--Billy Porter, Emmy award-winning actor, singer, and Broadway theater performer "Beyond the Gender Binary will give readers everywhere the feeling that anything is possible within themselves"--Princess Nokia, musician and co-founder of the Smart Girl Club "A fierce, penetrating, and empowering call for change."-- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "An affirming, thoughtful read for all ages." -- School Library Journal, starred review In Beyond the Gender Binary, poet, artist, and LGBTQIA+ rights advocate Alok Vaid-Menon deconstructs, demystifies, and reimagines the gender binary. Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists. In this installment, Beyond the Gender Binary, Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not in black and white, but in full color. Taking from their own experiences as a gender-nonconforming artist, they show us that gender is a malleable and creative form of expression. The only limit is your imagination.
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I thought this book was rather meh. The beginning of the book opens up the discussion about gender-nonconforming people quite well, but when we get to the part where they start listing questions and statements the book loses me. Although I get the frustration as a queer person, I wish the conversation would have been had in a different way. To constantly be on the defense is simply exhausting. The questions could have instead been incorporated in a convincing and well-researched text.
3-stars for all the info given. As some people have mentioned before, if you're already well-versed in the topic you really won't learn anything new.
The audiobook didn't really provide any sources or direct quotes, but I'm hoping and guessing the paperback did.
A must read for those who want to learn, unlearn and relearn concepts around gender. This is like a memoir-essay in Penguin's Pocket Change series, so it's not fully fleshed out like a full memoir or non-fiction book, but it does what it seeks out to do.
Short, concise, heartfelt. I think I read a longer more in-depth treatment of when and how we use gender on ID documents/sports with the same name if you wanted something with more meat.
Featured Series
1 released bookPocket Change Collective is a 10-book series first released in 2020 with contributions by Alok Vaid-Menon, Shavone Charles, and 9 others.
