You’re nobody until somebody calls you an enby

There is no such thing as non-binary. Until there is, at which point there can be no such thing as anything else.

If non-binary exists as a category, then no other categories really can.

I don’t mean, “exists” in the objective sense: this is a category defined by what it isn’t much more so than by what it is, a state of non-being. Or of actively not being something, rather than actively being it.

You can’t be it, because its purpose is to contain the undefined, or the undefinable; it is an umbrella term meant for many variations upon queer, transgender/transsexual, genderfluid. And the list goes on. Ultimately it had become clear that such a category was needed, because for some reason genderfluid and genderqueer, in the cultural landscape of the late twenty-teens, just wasn’t going to work anymore.This is because popularly, the language has become increasingly defined and influenced by postmodernism and its pursuit of reordering, recoding and generally undoing the language. Why is this? Because language is power. Language is category. Language is inclusion or exclusion in a society which also conveys, carries, and necessitates category, and postmodernism must work to undo this system as well in order to be carrying out its aims of undoing. Why does it aim to undo? That is another question for another topic. But as the language is, necessarily or not, undone, so too are categories of gender and sexuality, along with many other categories: in this case, non-binary exists because it has become popular, has been adopted, has become a word that is now in use widely. And one that more importantly is taking hold of the modern imagination, is creating a space where there wasn’t one. And there wasn’t one, because there didn’t need to be.

Non-binary isn’t real, there’s nothing there –- or there is, at least, the supposition that that something it is used as a euphemism for is optional, as there may be any number of things under the umbrella, but as easily there may be a blank space for you to consider while you know, at least, that you reject the default category, or the supposition that these categories must exist. And you by definition can’t define an identity based solely on what something isn’t, at least as far as humans are concerned…black holes are another matter. But the non-binary black hole is expanding. It is a protest against the idea of gender existing, of sex existing. People that previously would have…