I am starting to read the book Sacred Gender by Ariana Serpentine. It is a book about trans and non-binary spirituality. At the end of the first chapter there is an exercise in which one is asked to describe one’s gender without using words like male/female, man/woman, masculine/feminine, etc. Here is my response.

My gender is

• Nurturing
• Delicate
• Fragile
• Weeping
• Comforting
• Weary
• Dark
• Star filled
• It is a spider’s web covered with dew, glistening in the morning light.
• It is bruised and battered and yet still hopeful.
• It is needy, desirous of the company of others.
• Lonely
• Beautiful
• Gentle
• Lyrical
• Flowing
• Lithe
• Deep and vast
• Timeless

So what is your gender?