![]() This research analyses how women and men, old and young navigated the social conditions of war and violence and used their agency to adjust, adapt and negotiate their place in exile and after return ‘home’. ![]() Based on ethnographic research in Kenya and southern Sudan, this thesis examines the gendered displacement of Nuer refugees in Kakuma camp and their after-return emplacement experiences in southern Sudan. Some people struggle to separate gender identity from expression but I was able to clearly do that and that is why I personally struggled with whether I was genderfluid or not.Can war and displacement have an empowering and emancipating impact on gender asymmetries? How does being continuously on the move and ‘in-flux’ due to war and years spent being displaced and returning supposedly ‘home’ affect people’s lives and the practice and negotiation of gender relations? Conceptualising war-time displacement as a catalyst of social change, the research explores the transformation of southern Sudanese Nuer gender relations in the context of refugee return as a result of the most recent war (1983-2005). ![]() The expression of my gender may indeed fluctuate but my gender as a whole stays completely the same. I have two genders but my feelings do not fluctuate. Bi-gender and genderfluid are often confused with one another and the way I differentiate it is, my identity is static. I had heard the term genderfluid before and could somewhat relate the experience but nothing fully clicked until I was told about bi-gender. #Gender flux skin#Some days I felt feminine and other days I felt masculine but my presentation always stayed the same, at least it did when I became more comfortable in my skin and with my gender identity as a whole. It is all based upon what the wearer of that identity says it is.įor example, I realized that I was a non-binary Bi-gender person in high school, I came out as FTM which is an abbreviation of female-to-male and was planning on going through with the surgery and everything but then one day I realized that I did not feel completely male. The biggest difference between genderqueer and non-binary is what the person who identifies that way defines it. Genderfluidity is mostly tied into expression wears genderqueer and non-binary identities are not. It all depends on what that person is feeling that day. One moment they would want to express in a masculine way and other days they would express as a feminine person. Say if a person feels like they are a boy and a girl they would fluctuate between boy and girl identities based upon how they may feel. Genderfluid is more dependant on the expression of the individual and not solely based on how they feel. Genderfluid, on the other hand, means that you fluctuate between your identities. Not everyone that uses this identity will feel the same way and express themselves the same way. The thing that makes this identity so unique is that it is different for everyone. Genderqueer is seen as more of a political statement as opposed to non-binary. Ultimately that is up to the person that is using the label to decide. What truly sets them apart is that some genderqueer people view being genderqueer as a third gender and don’t want to use any other label. When it comes to non-binary identities it feels as though one is floating between two different extremes but can never quite relate to either. they do not feel what a cisgender individual feels towards their gender. Non-binary along with Genderqueer people often feel that they can not relate to the experience of either gender. Gender is more of a feeling within you and less of a reflection of who you are as a person. When I say expression I mean clothing choices and mannerisms. To break this down a little more gender is more than just expression. Genderqueer could mean a multitude of things. Genderqueer is very similar because your gender also falls outside of the binary and can not be described using the words that most people would use for gender. Non-binary means that your gender identity falls outside of the gender binary. For simplicity’s sake, we will be focusing mostly on genderqueer and how it can sometimes be used interchangeably by non-binary folk. Both identities use different flags, some people identify themselves as both genderqueer and non-binary while others identify themselves as only one of the two. Non-binary and Genderqueer are considered the same thing by some, but some people see them as separate identities. There are a lot of things that differentiate us from one another but before I dig into that let me explain what non-binary/genderqueer means as a whole. As a Genderqueer person myself, many people ask me what is Genderfluid vs. ![]()
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