Quote of the Day

Biological diversity is only the first crack in the precarious male/female binary.  Historically, societies have afforded gender expression varying degrees of flexibility that shift across time.  As an example from our own modern culture, up until the 1940s pink was considered a masculine color for it proximity to the more"vigorous" red.  But due to a combination of gender normative panic and marketing, pink is now exclusively reserved for the feminine.  Another strikingly recent gender crossover is the mundanity with which we regard women who wear pants.  Clearly, the porous boundary around gender expression is not new.  Rather, what has permeated our contemporary awareness is the acknowledgment that gender runs deeper than appearance, behavior, or preferences.

-- Micah Rajuvnov and Scott Duane, Nonbinary Memoirs of Gender and Identity, p. xvii