Recommend me an online nonbinary community, please?
August 6, 2020 2:14 PM   Subscribe

I've been putting off thinking about this for too long, and am tired of tripping the occasional emotional landmine when something forces me to think about my gender and gender presentation. So ... can anybody suggest an online community for nonbinary people and people who think they might be nonbinary?

Yeah, so, I've been circling around the idea that I might be nonbinary for quite a while now, but have been mostly leaving it on the backburner as something I didn't know what to do with and didn't have the mental/emotional fortitude to consider. But recently I've been feeling like I really do need to investigate this, as the occasional emotional freak-outs I experience when I unexpectedly find myself thinking about my body and its presentation are really no fun. I would love to read the stories of others who have been down this road, ideally in a place where I can also ask questions and even maybe feel like there's a community. Does anybody know of a forum like this? I'd especially appreciate a site that skewed a little bit older, as I'm 45 and would like to interact with others who are dealing with these questions at an older age as well.

(I was originally going to post some of the questions that have been on my mind here, but I think that would split this post into too many parts so I'm going to stick with asking where I can ask these questions for now. Thank you for any suggestions you might have!)
posted by DingoMutt to Society & Culture (3 answers total) 12 users marked this as a favorite
 
The prevalence of LGBTQ+ people among furries means that any furry space will also have a lot of nonbinary people. There are a few furry Mastodon instances with lots of nonbinary people and probably a nonbinary-specific instance somewhere.
posted by Kye at 2:53 PM on August 6, 2020


I can’t personally vouch for it, but Gender Reveal, a podcast that interviews trans and non-binary folks, has an associated Slack community that might be worth checking out.
posted by firefleet at 9:05 PM on August 6, 2020


Response by poster: Just wanted to duck back in to say thanks for the responses - I really appreciate the help. If anybody has other ideas, please feel free to add!
posted by DingoMutt at 10:24 AM on August 15, 2020


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