Nonbinary gender in the media: Difference between revisions

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===Newspapers, magazines and news sites===

====The New York Times====

=====August 2019=====

======Nonbinary Teenagers Are Finding a New Fit======

An article about young nonbinary people and [[androgynous]] [[Clothing|fashion]].

;Author

:Hayley Krischer

;Extract

:One photograph that sums up the nonbinary youth movement can be found on the Instagram account of [[Lachlan Watson]], an 18-year-old actor who stars in ''Chilling Adventures of Sabrina'' and who, in the photo wears a John Lennon- and Yoko Ono-inspired T-shirt that reads: "Gender is over. If you want it."

:Billie Eilish, the 17-year-old whose music has been streamed more than a billion times, is a current focus of the teenage gaze. Ms. Eilish is the anti-Britney Spears, the anti-Katy Perry. (Though, in a 2017 Vogue article, even Ms. Perry announced wanting to transcend "cutesy" and that she was going for more "androgynous, architectural" looks.) Ms. Eilish calls gender roles "ancient."

:She is known for wearing baggy, oversize clothing and on the red carpet wears gigantic jackets and big furry pants. Onstage, Ms. Eilish is often seen wearing hoodies, large athletic-looking shorts and tube socks. [...] For nonbinary teenagers, Ms. Eilish is a revelation. Zai Nixon-Reid, 19, a student at the New School, who is [[female-aligned]] nonbinary and goes by the pronouns they/them, says people often compared their style to Ms. Eilish's androgynous look.

:"It's definitely why I like her, because everything she wears is really oversized and that's kind of how I wish my closet was," they said. To scroll through Mx. Nixon-Reid's Instagram is to see a style that consists of oversize buttoned shirts and chains, but also suits and scarves and fedora hats.

:Expressing themselves through fashion is something new for Mx. Nixon-Reid. It wasn't always easy. Their mother is hyper-feminine, so most of their childhood clothes had been traditionally female.

:"These days, sort of at the end of 2018, I've been able to explore gender through fashion and it's helped me understand my own gender through clothes," they said.

:The moment now is that mall fixtures like H & M carry unisex lines, but gender nonconforming youth are still at high risk for bullying and suicide, in both in cosmopolitan areas and, especially, outside of them. In other words, a goth androgynous person may appear, as the kids say, dope, in Brooklyn, but could easily be a target somewhere else.

====The San Francisco Bay Guardian====