“Since my childhood, I knew that there’s something wrong with how I’m perceived by others but I didn’t have a name for it,” Sasza tells me. And yet as the visibility of Polish nonbinary people increases, and the political situation becomes more and more hostile, the community continues to find new ways of resisting-both in their language and on the streets. It is, perhaps, even harder to express your queer gender in a language that demands your suffixes to subscribe neatly to either masculine or feminine, especially in a country where the most famous nonbinary person is the one that got arrested for trying to oppose homophobic propaganda.
It is difficult to be a nonbinary person in a world which still vastly refuses to acknowledge anything that goes past the binary.
