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Feedback on "Agender Angst"

March 3, 2015
By EllisShapiroBarnum GOLD, Brooklyn, New York
EllisShapiroBarnum GOLD, Brooklyn, New York
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Favorite Quote:
"Real eyes realize real lies"


People who don't identify as a boy or a girl aren't often recognized in our society. They're seen as uncommon, or strange. This personal essay, "Agender Angst," written by Phoenix Quinn, illustrates their experiences as being gender fluid, or agender. I really love how it identifies a subject that is not commonly discussed, especially because it comes from a person who is going through the subject first-hand.
Phoenix tried to identity the right gender since a young age, before even knowing a word for it. The writer didn't feel right as a definite female, Phoenix's birth gender. The line, "I'm suspended in that space between genders, locked in a position defined by ambiguity and androgyny and confusion, by gender roles and stereotypes, by society's expectations for me..." really captures the thoughts and emotions surging through Phoenix's head, as well as many other people like them. Everyone is defined by what society shapes them to be, when in the end, we are all just people. As Phoenix says,"I am not my gender. I am a person, and all I ask is to be treated like one."



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