bidyke:

hajme:

white nb people have a really fucked up definition of what binarism is lol

binarism is a feature of colonialism and western imperialism in which poc (namely black people) are forced to conform with the white gender binary system

its not the invisibility of nonbinary people in society, thats just called nonbinary erasure (like refusing to use gender neutral pronouns, say stuff like “both genders” etc)

before colonialism came in and enslaved poc, they were already expressing their genders in ways that european white people didnt understand and forced them to identify as either man or woman and entirely erased the genders specific to those cultures, wiping out a large part of individualism and expression in poc societies

More people need to know this

I’d also like to add that there’s a lot of misconception that non-binary people experience forms of oppression specific to them - which, other than erasure, they don’t.

The oppression non-binary people face is the same transphobia and cissexism other trans people face. Any intra-community hostility from other trans people that non-binary people sometimes falsely label as “binarism” is really just a form of horizontal aggression that does not consitute oppression, since “binary trans people” do not hold any institutional power over non-binary people, and they are both oppressed on the same axis.

It is extremely erroneous to assert that people of “binary genders” (both male and female, cis and trans) form any sort of cohesive social class or have any similarities in access to privilege, and that misconception is something that the non-binary community really needs to address and move away from in order to start having any meaningful discourse about where we fit into various privilege and oppression dynamics.

-Lane

pinebark:

imho ‘binarism’ only makes sense as a construct within a broader analysis of white settler colonialism. trans people might be dismissive of or shitty towards nonbinary people but people being bad to you or your identity not being recognized is not the same thing as structural oppression; if it were, a lot of internet subcultures would be oppressed too. so yeah, let’s talk about binarism, but as a part of a colonial project that all white folx (including those who identify as nonbinary) have historical connections to and continue to benefit from. 

i owe a lot of my thinking on this to folx like nina malaya of biyuti press and i encourage people to read her & other women of color’s work to understand the complexities around this topic.

killbenedictcumberbatch:

The reason why gender abolitionism is racist is that there are several gender identities and roles specific to non-white cultures, it’s a white western ideology that completely neglects to acknowledge that the gender binary was constructed by white colonialists who destroyed and desecrated entire civilizations, destroying gender literally will not do shit

hajme:

white nb people have a really fucked up definition of what binarism is lol

binarism is a feature of colonialism and western imperialism in which poc (namely black people) are forced to conform with the white gender binary system

its not the invisibility of nonbinary people in society, thats just called nonbinary erasure (like refusing to use gender neutral pronouns, say stuff like “both genders” etc)

before colonialism came in and enslaved poc, they were already expressing their genders in ways that european white people didnt understand and forced them to identify as either man or woman and entirely erased the genders specific to those cultures, wiping out a large part of individualism and expression in poc societies

PSA:

eggs-eggs-eggs-eggs-eggs:

Binarism is a word used to refer to the experience of people of colour being forced to conform to euro-centric binary gender roles, and who have had their culturally-specific gender roles eradicated by colonialism. even cis-identified PoC suffer from binarism.

if you’re trying to describe general exclusion/invalidation of non-binary genders, the term you’re looking for is non-binary erasure.

hajme:

white nb people have a really fucked up definition of what binarism is lol

binarism is a feature of colonialism and western imperialism in which poc (namely black people) are forced to conform with the white gender binary system

its not the invisibility of nonbinary people in society, thats just called nonbinary erasure (like refusing to use gender neutral pronouns, say stuff like “both genders” etc)

before colonialism came in and enslaved poc, they were already expressing their genders in ways that european white people didnt understand and forced them to identify as either man or woman and entirely erased the genders specific to those cultures, wiping out a large part of individualism and expression in poc societies