Janelle Monáe: I Was Non-Binary Before I Had Language For It 

That's why I think it's so important to not try so hard to label everything in a general way. I like meeting individuals and just listen to them. See them get to know themselves, I get to know myself, we come together and describe ourselves the way we think it fits best and respect the other persons view and expression about themselves. Just connecting individual to individual ❤

I love this. My parent was the same way. They didn’t have the language to explain themselves (so they just thought that they were a freak for 65+ years). They’re in their late 70s now, and with counseling, they are finally able to recognize that they were never a freak. It’s super hard to break out of the boxes others put us into (and even harder to break out of the ones we put ourselves into), so bravo to you, Janelle Monāe, and to my parent, for doing it. 🎉

I like the water and rock analogy. That resonates.

by todays standards i am non binary, but my coming of age was in a very different time from today. One thing that is so different is that there was joy in not giving a fuc@ about what other people thought and not fitting in. difference made us unique. it was even fun at times rustling feathers of people so trapped in conformity. I saw it as a rejection of all gender norms. Rule free. Not trans in terms of body. rejection of all gender norms. Today feels so different. We are supposed to care now way more, take offense when others aren't on board and care a lot if people don't use "they". Laughing off misgendering can be liberating giving others less power over us and not even wasting our breath. Sometimes i was even pleased i passed as the opposite sex. Today 3/4 of my friends in my life would be non binary or trans had they been from this era. New language for something that always was. Gender always on a spectrum and without rules, in the queer world anyways. So i encourage the youth of today to not care too much about getting everyone in line with understanding. Free flow. Experiment. Enjoy life. Our uniqueness our individuality. conformity, boxes, rules and labels = boring. imo

masculine and feminine are not genders. They are aspect of a human that compliment each other. Wonderful artist but this the least interesting thing about her.

I watched a really interesting speech from a linguistic professor who explained how much languages can influence our way of viewing things! In English every nome and object doesn’t have a gender where in German for example „bridge“ is female. In French it‘s Male. So if you‘re fluent in both of these languages you‘re able to see both male and female characteristics in the object. This really made me interested in leaning more languages since I’m only fluent in German and semi fluent in English.

Yeah a lot of people don’t understand why, if non-binary people (and others obv) don’t like labels, we’d use a label to describe ourselves. Because if we give ourselves that label, we can make it fit us rather than trying to fit into them

But how are you not going to be anything? You gotta to be some thing.

This is E X A C T L Y how i feel. I've been nonbinary my whole life, i just didn't have the vocabulary for it for like 23 years. I thought i was just awful at being a woman and felt like shit about myself, but I'm actually GREAT at being nonbinary.

I love the analogy of water and rock versus masculine and feminine.

Just seen her in concert this past Sat! Loved it!

Thank you Style, for providing this portal to different ways of simply being ❤.

Slay

Outta all the dialogue about this subject matter, I like the water and rock monologue.

Cray cray

I love you

I was listening to Arch Android suite II and III again and it all makes sense now

mmmhmm, more like water, more like rock 🙏🏾🌸✨☀️

💙💙💙

She's so beautiful.

Just like how I didn’t know demisexuality was a thing. Always thought something was wrong with me but couldn’t put my finger on the term 😂

If we don't like label, we don't put any label but just be ourselves. Put as non classified, also a kind of classify.

What a load of mumbo jumbo!

Interesting

Spirit of delusion😢

Janelle is fine 😍!

I was born in the real world and this is some fairytale bullsht

What’s wrong with her

I love her, 💕

Ela é maravilhosa!!

so beautiful !

Nah fam

Crazy

That's your mental problem.. we're trying to raise sane children.

💘💘💘💘💘💘💘

Never striked me as masculine just interesting cute love her lol 😁

These type of people always coming up with their own terms and making themselves sound like utter fools in the process. 🤦‍♂️ #TheyLost

Thissssssss

Confusion at best.

Eish 😂😂😂😂😂😂 such rubbish , wena 😂😂😂

She needs Jesus.

Lame

Just be a human. Why you gotta make a thing out of it? People are annoying, especially celebs.

To all the transphobes in the comments: Your comments only boost the algorithm! Ty for the support towards this awesome project uplifting body neutrality

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She’s lying!

Just say i am what am why all this language bs

So… she means her personality changed?

I see a strong beautiful woman.