THIS IS US

Become What You Are

In a binary world, everyone who looks at me sorts me into “man” or “woman.” Everyone is wrong.

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
Published in
6 min readJul 19, 2021

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Pictured: Fluid, probably some genders. Photo by Giuseppe Famiani on Unsplash

“You look very much like yourself,” my husband told me. We were in a pool in Virginia, late at night, taking turns dragging each other through water as warm as blood.

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
Human Parts

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.