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== Nonbinary gender in zines == | == Nonbinary gender in zines == | ||
Since at least the 1990s, some zinesters have endorsed non-binary understandings of gender in various forms. These include expressing disapproval for binary notions of gender, using or advocating for gender neutral pronouns, or giving accounts of their own non-binary gender identities and/or expressions. | Since at least the 1990s, some zinesters have endorsed non-binary understandings of gender in various forms. These include expressing disapproval for binary notions of gender, using or advocating for gender neutral pronouns, or giving accounts of their own non-binary gender identities and/or expressions. | ||
In the 1996 transgender zine ''Girly (''issue 5), Mona X asserts that gender is "more like a spectrum" than a binary.<ref>X, Mona. ''Girly'', issue 5. Queer Zine Archive Project. 1996. https://archive.qzap.org/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/58</ref> | |||
in a 1998 zine titled ''Lucky Star,'' Witch Baby/Jessica Max Stein asserts that-- despite Stein's use of he/him pronouns for God-- God "doesn't fit into that narrow binary conception of things". Stein also includes a "completely true genderqueer Brooklyn Hannukkah story", about meeting a stranger with a pleasing and androgynous voice.<ref>Stein, Jessica Max, writing as Witch Baby. ''Lucky Star.'' Queer Zine Archive Project. Created December 1998. https://archive.qzap.org/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/175</ref> | in a 1998 zine titled ''Lucky Star,'' Witch Baby/Jessica Max Stein asserts that-- despite Stein's use of he/him pronouns for God-- God "doesn't fit into that narrow binary conception of things". Stein also includes a "completely true genderqueer Brooklyn Hannukkah story", about meeting a stranger with a pleasing and androgynous voice.<ref>Stein, Jessica Max, writing as Witch Baby. ''Lucky Star.'' Queer Zine Archive Project. Created December 1998. https://archive.qzap.org/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/175</ref> | ||