This is my first time reading Alok Vaid-Menon “Beyond The Gender Binary”. Reading this a very interesting book because he focuses challenges the world to see gender not in black and white, but in color. Drawing on their own experiences as gender nonconforming artists, they show us that gender is a malleable and creative expression. He’s trying to make it clear that the only limit we have is our imagination. While reading I found it interesting what his definition of non binary is to him. He defined it as gender identities that are neither male nor female dentities that are outside the gender binary. A word that stood out to me is “gender fluid” and this refers to change over time in a person’s gender expression or gender identity, or both. That change might be in expression, but not identity, or in identity, but not expression. Or both expression and identity might change together. For example if people are people whose gender changes over time. A gender-fluid person might identify as a woman one day and a man the next. Alok mentions a lot of terms that he wants his readers to pay attention to, like transgender, gender nonbinary, gender fluid and cisgender.veryone else. Non-binary people shouldn’t feel insecure about themselves. They should not feel offended for wearing certain clothes. Non-binary people are not protected by the government, which I find wicked. It doesn’t matter what the gender of a person is, first of all a person. Overall Alok shows that gender is a malleable and creative form of expression.