'When pop star, musician and all round icon Janelle Monae tweeted along with a trending hashtag simply saying ‘IAmNonbinary’, I allowed myself in that moment to just feel good'
Janelle Monae, in that tweet, could be seen as coming out, but without much else, we should not make assumptions.
It was a statement so complicated, yet so simple. A declaration maybe? Catching us up maybe? A show of support?For many reasons, coming out has always been another binary that, to many people, is not one that makes sense.The false idea of suddenly being ‘out’ after being ‘in’ doesn’t work for many people, especially if we are constantly re-coming out to people at work, or friends, or re-coming ‘in’ when having to hide on the streets, at job interviews, or to partners.
Although I have celebrated and understand why coming out is important, and why when those in the spotlight do it there is a sense of empowerment, so much visibility can often leave out the different shades of how people live, both metaphorically and literally.Not all of us want to exclaim our gender from rooftops, or can safely do so, so some of us don’t want to explain our pronouns or how we arrived at this destination.
Janelle left a mystery behind. Janelle left me questioning. Janelle just tweeted #IAmNonbinary over a Steven Universe GIF and it made me feel alive.Janelle is unapologetically Black. Janelle has become a reference point to many Black queer people.
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