Allena snapshot stood out to me because when i look at the picture its sending a message that Non-binary people just want a seat at the table. They want to be respected and not look down on. Which I feel like was one of the many points Alok was trying to make in Beyond the Gender Bianary. Society normalized so many things that people aren’t willing to accept or even consider anything that doesn’t fall under a certain category. Parents tell their kids that they can be anything they want to be when they grow up but can’t accept what they choose to identify as? It’s one thing to not support something but to go out of your way to bash someone because of it is not okay. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but people fail to realize you can not support something and still be respectful of it. Everyone should be able to express themselves in whatever way they see fit. Which can look like a man wearing a skirt and makeup or a woman dressed in a suit with a tie on. That does not make them any less than anyone else. I didn’t realize how hard it was for people who chose to express themselves in a certain way regardless of their gender until Alok mentioned how “I cannot go outside without being afraid for my safety.”.. they/them continued to explain how “They are few spaces where I do not experience harassment for the way I look. Something as simple as running errands leads to strangers interrogating me because of my body, trying to find some way to explain why I look like this. “Are you dressed up for a theater production?” “Oh, it must be Fashion Week again!”. (Alok, 16). This showed me how much someone has to endure for simply expressing who they are. It takes some people years to find themselves. Imagine finally understanding and knowing who you are and having to hide it because of fear. A friend was over my house one day and we were watching the VMA performances. It was going so well until Lil Nas X came on performing. He immediately turned off the TV. I asked why and his response was “Didn’t you see what he was wearing and how he was acting?”. His boxers were bidazilled and he was dancing too “lady like” i’m assuming. This is another point Alok was trying to make that clothes have no gender. What you wear shouldnt define you. Then again before we were born everything was picked out for us from our gender down to the very thing we would wear when we were out of the womb. As Alok said “If you remove our clothing, our makeup, and our pronouns, underneath the surface we are just men and women playing dress up.” (Alok, 17). Which just goes to show how silly it is to put a gender on clothing muchless shame someone for wearing a certain clothing item.