beyond the binary

BEYOND THE BINARY: A Magazine for UK Non-Binary People
This is a magazine website which aims to give non-binary people in the UK the opportunity to contribute and share what they are experiencing.
This website has been created because of a lack of non-binary representation in the media.
'Beyond the binary' wants to re-balance that and give these people a platform.
They give non-binary people the chance to post articles and any other media on a range of different topics, discussions, opinions, artworks, etc.
They have chosen the UK because the majority of websites and resources come mainly from US and there's not a lot of visibility of non-binary people in the United Kingdom.

http://beyondthebinary.co.uk

non-binary media coverage

"Nonbinary gender is an umbrella term covering any gender identity that doesn't fit within the gender binary. The label may also be used by individuals wishing to identify as falling outside of the gender binary without being any more specific about the nature of their gender."
http://nonbinary.org/wiki/Nonbinary_gender

Understanding non-binary people: a guide for the media: http://transmediawatch.org/Documents/non_binary.pdf

• Non-binary people are individuals who don't feel male or female. They may embody elements of both or feel to be something different.
• Non-binary people use a range of different terms to describe themselves.
• Non-binary people feel invisible. Media ignore them as media consider gender being the sole focus  of the coverage. In fact, media coverage of the non-binary is mostly described as ignorant.
• Poor public understanding is the main reason of street harassment against non-binary people.
• Non-binary people just want to lead a normal life and be respected as male or female individuals are.

This is a very simple and direct guide which can help people understand what non-binary means and how non-binary people feel about mass media. Media tend to ignore this topic as they consider female or male being the only two existing genders. Non-binary might be seen as 'abnormal' by some people as mass media have a great influence on their minds. This is why non-binary people do not want media to hide their identities, their stories. All they need is respect, dignity and acceptance.

gender neutral language/pronouns

GENDER NEUTRAL LANGUAGE
Many gender neutral people feel uncomfortable being addressed with masculine or feminine pronouns. They have decided to launch some gender neutral pronouns which are not associated with biological gender. The only English recognised gender neutral pronoun is they but it is not accepted by everyone. This is why some have attempted to introduce gender neutral language.
Gender neutral language avoids prejudices toward a specific social gender.
Example:  policeman becomes police officer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_language

During the 1970s, feminists Casey Miller and Kate Swift wrote The Handbook Of Nonsexist Writing based on gender neutral language to stop excluding and discriminating women.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handbook_of_Nonsexist_Writing


https://apps.carleton.edu/student/orgs/saga/pronouns/
https://genderneutralpronoun.wordpress.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34901704

Guidelines for gender neutral language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_language

when no gender fits

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/when-no-gender-fits-a-quest-to-be-seen-as-just-a-person/2014/09/20/1ab21e6e-2c7b-11e4-994d-202962a9150c_story.html

When no gender fits
This is the story of Kelsey, a non-binary person who has encountered several issues during their teenage years, feeling that the world we live in insists that we have to choose between male and female and there's no other way to identify ourselves.
Luckily enough, Kelsey has discovered that they are not alone. Many people feel the way they feel.
Many people have fought and still fight to make societies understand that gender identity is ''one's personal experience of one's own gender.''

• Which box do you check when you don't belong in any box? 
• How do you navigate a world that identifies with male or female and the place that feels most right to you is neither?
• “I’m non-binary, agender, and use they/them/their pronouns.''
• Using a pronoun that feels right: ex.: They.
• Defining gender on a spectrum rather than as a binary.
• Being agender is like living on an island apart from the rest of the world, so it is important to learn thinking of people in terms of how close they are to reaching this island.