Reflection On Being Nonbinary

This October I read a poem about being nonbinary during my current events presentation on transgender health care to my social studies class. The class was awestruck, even though many of them had never really known about trans people before that day. Writing is the strongest connection I have to myself and the most meaningful way I can interact with the world. There is no better way to close the distance between your soul and that of a stranger than to write; in this way we learn about what moves each other and ourselves.
What moved me the most as a child were stories in which people found creative ways to shelter and feed themselves; I relished books like My Side of the Mountain that described in detail the way Sam Gribley made a house