‘Can You Really Be a Queer Muslim?’: Intersectionality and the Complexity of Identity
‘The Problem Starts When Children Are Three Years Old’: Sexual Abuse, The Education System, and Me
I work as a teacher for a pre-school where there are already signs of hegemonic social normalities. A teacher asks a little boy to be a ‘big strong helper’. They suggest to a little girl, ‘shall we get the sparkly pens out?’. The truth is, this is where the problem starts. Recently, I came to the realisation that I’m in the position to change it, for a certain few…
What Are You? The Ambiguous Life of a Genderfluid Person
What are you? First off, I am not a what. I am a who. Who am I is the appropriate question. […] Society makes us believe that there are only two genders and that anything outside their defined binary is considered abnormal and incorrect. But genders are not what you are assigned at birth. Genders are labels that describe your identity…
Reclaiming ‘Woman’, to Realise ‘Not’: Coming Out as Non-Binary
Was I proud to be a woman? I was, and I wasn’t. Some days, I was proud. Other days, I was uncomfortable. To be a woman is to be strong, in my eyes. I wanted to be strong like that. I am not a woman, though. Woman-ly, maybe. Feminine, some days. But woman? Not so much.