Kal Cobalt

Read the essay “Gender Evolution” in Reality Sandwich’s Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age, a 2008 Tarcher/Penguin anthology of essays and articles originally published on the webzine Reality Sandwich. “Gender evolution” addresses the move beyond gender as static or binary, and what comes next.

As I gathered more information about those on the cutting edge of gender-smashing, I began to question the term bisexual and its implicit nod to a binary gender system. “Bisexual” self-limits to two genders, and in its very construction seems to imply “attracted to men and also to women,” rather than “attracted to people regardless of gender.” I questioned terms like monogamous and polyamorous as well — if I did not prefer having one partner at a time, nor having multiple partners at the same time, but instead wished to enjoy relationships in whatever form and number made sense in that particular situation, what was the word for that?

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You can also read “Gender Evolution” for free here.