Further reading: Beyond the Gender binary

DEVELOPMENT IDEA: without a face and features by coming together throughout the pages in a zine until the end-use phrase: we are 'Imagining a more kind and just world for everyone' (ref: page 32)

- I want to show a journey of their worries, feelings, struggles, and growth

• Have to make compromises for safety

• Concerned with gender norms or us

• First time wearing a dress in public- feel giddy and carefree and at peace

• 'Creativity lives in the unfamiliar spaces in our mind'

• Rather than celebrating people who express themselves on their own terms, we repress them

• In order to fit in, we silenced our differences and subdued our creativity

• Huge reaction because we're constantly taught there are only two fixed universal genders

• We mark everything: strong, weak- express, no-feelings- doing harm, accepting it. We fit them into categories - otherwise, they are wrong

• "There's always the constant fear that people will turn on you. You can never show your vulnerability because you always have to pretend that you are strong"

True acceptance doesn't look like having to change who you are to be embraced

• “The emphasis on our appearance distracts us from the real focus: power”

• Gender is not what we look like to other people; its what we know ourselves to be

• we are 'Imagining a more kind and just world for everyone'

worries, feelings, struggles, and growth