Non-binary writers are individuals who write for a living and hold a gender identity outside of the gender binary. Non-binary gender identities may include genderfluid, agender, and bigender. Additionally, some cultures may have "third gender" roles that exist outside of the gender binary.
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Travis Alabanza, an English performance artist, poet, writer, and LGBTQ rights activist K Alexander, a Canadian actor, writer, web series creator and YouTube personality
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Thomas Baty (1869–1954), an English lawyer and writer of a utopian science fiction novel set in a postgender society, as well as the editor of the feminist gender studies journal Urania Jay Bernard, a Black British poet, multi media writer and film maker, shortlisted in the Costa Book Awards 2019 Tess Berry-Hart, a British playwright, author and activist Mal Blum, an American songwriter, musician, writer and performer Justin Vivian Bond, an American singer-songwriter, author, painter, performance artist, and actor Kate Bornstein, an American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist Beth Brant, a Mohawk writer, essayist, and poet Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown, an Asian American autistic disability rights activist, writer, and public speaker River Butcher, an American stand-up comic, actor, writer, producer, and podcast host Alec Butler, a Canadian playwright and filmmaker Judith Butler, an American philosopher, gender theorist and feminist writer K.R. Byggdin, a Canadian novelist
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Claude Cahun, a Jewish-French photographer, sculptor and writer E.M. Carroll, a Canadian webcomic artist and author Marjorie Celona, an American-Canadian writer Chrystos, a Menominee writer and two-spirit activist Heather Corinna, an American sex education writer and blogger Ivan Coyote, a Canadian spoken word performer, writer, and LGBT advocate
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Harry Dodge, an American sculptor, performer, video artist, and writer Jude Doyle, an American feminist author Cyrus Grace Dunham, an American writer and activist
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Akwaeke Emezi, a Nigerian author living in the United States
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Waawaate Fobister, a Canadian playwright and actor Tyler Ford, a writer and public speaker L. Frank, a Tongva-Acjachemen artist, writer, tribal scholar, cartoonist, and indigenous language activist
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Sarah Gailey, an American author of speculative fiction Andrea Gibson, an American poet and activist
H Johanna Hedva, author of Sick Woman Theory and On Hell Liv Hewson, an Australian actor and playwright
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Eddie Izzard, a stand-up comedian, actor, writer and political activist
J George M. Johnson Cris Judar, a Brazilian writer
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Yuhki Kamatani, a Japanese manga writer and illustrator Maia Kobabe, a cartoonist and illustrator, author of Gender Queer: A Memoir Janae Kroc, a bodybuilder and writer
L Kim de l'Horizon, Swiss writer and thespian Carole LaFavor, an Ojibwe novelist, activist and nurse Richard LaFortune, a two spirit activist, author, community organizer, and artist Olivia Laing, a British trans/nonbinary writer, novelist, and cultural critic R. B. Lemberg, a bigender, queer author, poet, and editor of speculative fiction Elisha Lim, an artist and graphic novelist Cheena Marie Lo, a poet working in Oakland, California Katherine Locke, a writer of young adult and children's books living in Philadelphia, PA
M Anna-Marie McLemore, Mexican-American author Gopi Shankar Madurai, an Indian equal rights, Indigenous rights activist and author Helen Macdonald, English writer and naturalist Keith Maillard, a Canadian-American novelist and poet Jul Maroh, a French comic book writer Jeffrey Marsh, an American writer, actor, artist, activist, author, and social media personality Dan Taulapapa McMullin, an American Samoan artist, known for their poetry, visual art and filmDan Taulapapa McMullin. Peter Britos (ed.) "Artist Note". Oceania in the Age of Global Media Special issue of Spectator p. 113. USC Cinema, Spring 2003. Accessed online Oct 13 2016 at http://cinema.usc.edu/assets/059/11479.pdf Casey McQuiston, an American author of romance and new adult fiction Foz Meadows, an Australian fantasy novelist, blogger and poet Jack Monroe, a British food writer and journalist Ali K. Mulford, Australian writer
N Jeannette Ng, a British fantasy writer and Hugo award-winner Marieke Nijkamp, Dutch writer
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Richard O'Brien, a British-New Zealand actor, television presenter, musician, writer, voice artist and theatre performer Kay O'Neill, New Zealand writer AJ Odasso, an American author, editor, and poet Alice Oseman, a genderfluid English YA author
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Martin Page, a nonbinary French writer Pidgeon Pagonis, an intersex American activist, writer, artist, and consultant Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a cosmologist, science writer and equality activist
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Lucas Rijneveld, a Dutch writer and poet
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Rivers Solomon, an American author Joey Soloway, an American television creator, showrunner, director and writer Rae Spoon, a Canadian musician and writer"Elisha Lim and Rae Spoon: Talking Shop" . No More Potlucks, January 2012. ND Stevenson, an American cartoonist and animation producer John Elizabeth Stintzi, a Canadian novelist and poetRyan Porter, "Debut author John Elizabeth Stintzi talks poetry, gender identity, and their love of the unconventional". Quill & Quire, April 2020. Rebecca Sugar, an American animator, director, screenwriter, producer, and songwriter Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, an American author and activist
T Bogi Takács, an Agender trans Jewish writer and poet Jacob Tobia, an American LGBTQ rights activist, feminist writer, and co-producer and host for the MSNBC television series Queer 2.0
V Jo Vannicola, a Canadian actor and memoiristNorman Wilner, "Joanne Vannicola wants to push Canadian film beyond gender binaries". Now, June 18, 2019. Hida Viloria, a Latinx American writer W
Joshua Whitehead, a Canadian First Nations poet and novelist"Why Joshua Whitehead wants to recentre Indigenous characters with his cyberpunk-infused poetry". CBC Books, November 1, 2017. Gigi Raven Wilbur, an American bisexual rights activist and writer James Wylder, an American author and publisher
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Nao-Cola Yamazaki, a Japanese novelist and essayist Neon Yang, a Singaporean writer of English-language speculative fiction Katherine Magdalene Rose, an author and social activist from San Francisco
Z Xiran Jay Zhao, a Chinese-Canadian author and Internet personality Nevo Zisin, a non-binary Australian writer and transgender rights activist
See also List of non-binary people Gender in speculative fiction
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