After reading Alok’s Beyond the Gender Binary, I am amazed by how Alok can wrap things up and disclosure things so well by such short paragraphs. It was a good book also the writing is smooth, but I feel empathy with them. I have multiple friends are non-binary and I believe Alok’s experience must happen to them, but it is still crazy because people must face with so much harassment just because they choose to accept the true self and be themselves in public.

Through Alok’s argument and I agree with them. How people define binary norms and who define them? People who define binary norms are the one who has power or let’s say at least have power of the right of speech. What Alok writing this is because taking over of the right of speech, speaking for themselves especially non-binary people speaking their own experiences instead of gender binary people speaking for them.

It is not just beneficial for gender non-binary people but also a good chance for society to re-educate themselves. As Alok’s classmate who bullied him at school and turned out he is bisexual, and he was jealous by how free Alok can express themselves. For people like that it matters too. Because everyone shouldn’t be shame about the true selves and the more pressure they have from the society, the more tragedies would be.

Knowing ourselves is always difficult and life is about a whole life study thing. I believe people are starting to waking up and our next generation would be more comfortable about it.