Janaya Fraser

i) Normative Narratives; Emmas’ story is about making a self-portrait for art class.  They had to draw themselves, using colors that were similar to their hair color, skin color, eye color, etc.  Everyone was asking to borrow the “skin color marker” until a boy said “You mean the peach marker.  Not everyone has light skin…

It all began when binaries became a way to represent people’s gender identity.  The thought that you can either be a man or woman and that is all.  Gender identity is seen as black and white.  Where is the grey area though?  Supposedly, what you are classified as at birth whether it is female or…