Beyond the Gender Binary

by Alok Vaid-Menon

I do not have the luxury of being. I am only seen as doing. As if my gender is something that is being done to them and not something that belongs to me.

I don’t remember much of my childhood because I spent so much of it separated from my body.

Repression breeds insecurity breeds violence.

They think that we are selfish when actually we are imagining a more kind and just world for everyone.

Power can be defined as the ability to make a particular perspective seem universal. Control is how power maintains itself;

We do not need to be universal to be valid.

“What part of yourself did you have to destroy in order to survive in this world?”