A graphic reading "Welcome to no. 7: the Nonbinary Issue, Summer 2022. The text is pale pink on a dark brown background, except for the word "Nonbinary" which is bright yellow.

A Quick Hello from the Editor

FEATURE STORY

The Guru Who Said No

Is gender fluidity a modern concept? Hardly. Pakistan’s khwaja sirah community has been rejecting binaries for hundreds of years, and they’d like your colonialism off their rights, bodies, and identities.

words by Alizeh Kohari
art by Sana Nasir
6,912 words (a 34-minute read)

CONVERSATION PIECES

When Language Fails and I Exist

Ian-Khara Ellasante
HYBRID ESSAY

You and I, We Are Everything

Kalki Subramaniam
POETRY

Return to Juchitán de Zaragoza

Luvia Lazo
PHOTOGRAPHY

The Time That Remains

Mariah Rafaela Silva
PROSE POETRY

Performing for Our Humanity

Mehrub Moiz Awan
CRITICAL ESSAY

my pronouns are super/nova

Ohíya and Taté Walker
ILLUSTRATION, POETRY

No Cession

Sandy O’Sullivan
CRITICAL ESSAY

Fragments of Grief

Sophia-Layla Afsar
PERSONAL ESSAY

Comfort Is a Lie

Dawood Qureshi
PERSONAL ESSAY

COLUMNS

Innocent Dominance, aka Liberal Whiteness

Breai Mason-Campbell

Day or Night

Sara Benincasa

I Could’ve Been a Doctor

Soraya Roberts