On our own terms: allowing for complexity in how non-binary people identify and relate

Jonathan Fisk
4 min readJul 15, 2020
A close-up photo of a patch of small moss growing, contrasted with an occasional stone and blade of grass.

What it means to be non-binary is as expansive as what it means to be a person. There is absolutely no single way to be non-binary, including how we act and are perceived, the pronouns we use, and the general & relational terms we use as well (such as uncle, girl, brother, mother, and so on). Some view ourselves as something more “between” the…

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Jonathan Fisk

Boricua/Taíno via LBC | PhD student in NREM, UH Manoa | B.S. & M.S. in Earth Systems, Stanford ’17 | financially support at https://cash.me/$Fisky