I have to remind people that "nonbinary" predates "binary" in many respects; those of us who don't fit the expectations for what is "masculine" or "feminine" have existed across almost every continent, going back centuries. But one of the impacts of colonization is that histories are forgotten, and not by accident, violently muffled until they don't make a sound.
-- Sand C. Chang, Nonbinary Memoirs of Gender and Identity, p. 55
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