Life Isn't Binary

Surprise, it’s a nonfiction book! Almost all my recommendations have been for novels, but they’re actually not all I read (I promise!). Now, it’s so secret that I’m a big old nonbinary person, but there’s so much more to nonbinary thinking than sexuality and gender identity.

This book details all the ways in which we limit ourselves by thinking of the world in simplistic binary terms, and it does so in a friendly and informative style.

Challenging binary thought patterns has a much wider scope that I can truly cover here, and it’s hard to convey just how much of… show more.

I loved this nonfiction book because it puts the gender binary in the context of other things that we often falsely consider binaries.

For instance, the mind-body binary is ridiculous when you consider that experiencing emotions is not entirely in the mind, given what we know emotions and stress do to the body, both short-term and long-term. The authors also point out that feelings can be something other than completely positive or completely negative, and that the idea that emotion and rationality, or work and play, are mutually exclusive is absurd.

What makes this book especially good is that it… show more.