Directory of online communities

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« My boyfriend is the most supportive, but sometimes I prefer talking to other trans people, so I use the internet as there are no support groups near me. »
Jay, 19 (Agender)[1]

This page is intended to list all forums, groups and communities for nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people online. They can be stand-alone sites or groups as part of a larger site.

This directory is intended to list specifically groups for nonbinary people, and not groups for transgender people generally.

Please add sections alphabetically, and links alphabetically within sections.

Art and creativity

  • 500px.com - Nonbinary (500px is a photography community)
  • Ravelry.com - The Gendersphere (Ravelry is a free site for knitters and other fibre-crafters)
  • Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP): first launched in November 2003 in an effort to preserve queer zines and make them available to other queers, researchers, historians, punks, and anyone else who has an interest DIY publishing and underground queer communities.
  • Queer Cartoonist Database: the Cartoonists of Color, Queer Cartoonists, and Disabled Cartoonists databases were created and are maintained by cartoonist MariNaomi as a way to spotlight marginalized comics creators. The databases are used by booksellers, librarians, academics, editors, book publishers, event organizers, readers, and more.

Discord

Discord is a proprietary freeware VoIP application designed for gaming communities. Discord runs on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Linux, and in a web browser. It lets users create servers with different channels in it.

Discord servers for nonbinary people:

Facebook groups

General Forums

Location specific groups

Canada

UK

England

Scotland

IRC

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is an application layer protocol that facilitates communication in the form of text. The chat process works on a client/server networking model. IRC clients are computer programs that a user can install on their system or use through a web browser. These clients communicate with chat servers to transfer messages to other clients. An IRC server has different channels, each one with its own topic.

IRC channels for nonbinary people:

Reddit

Reddit is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called "subreddits", which cover a variety of topics including news, science, movies, video games, music, books, fitness, food, and image-sharing.

Sub-reddits about nonbinary identities:

Technology

Telegram

  • Nonbinary Support Group - message Cassolotl on Telegram for an invite

Twitter hashtags

  1. This quote is a snippet from an answer to the survey conducted in the year 2018. Note for editors: the text of the quote, as well as the name, age and gender identity of its author shouldn't be changed.
  2. https://www.facebook.com/groups/nonbinarypeopleofcolor/