“Nonbinary” an anthology of brief personal, life stories, written by persons who are not exclusively male or female (post 1): Nonbinary and multiple personality?

The book’s Introduction defines its title: “ ‘Nonbinary’ simply means not binary; when applied to gender, it means not exclusively male or female” (1, p xviii).

One of the initial personal stories, “Namesake” by Michal “MJ” Jones—“a black queer and nonbinary writer, activist, educator and musician” (1, p. 248)—recalls: “He’d pressed against my body, kissing me terribly while I was someplace else, someone else…Occupying this space is a constant coming-out process—a creative one where I come up with new names for myself and explain away the confused looks on strangers’ faces…Today, my spirit breathes, and embraces the name I was given, and the new names I create every day” (1, pp. 26, 28).

Comment: I have found the initial, brief, personal essays difficult to follow, but the above excerpts from one of them looks like a story of evolving, named, alternate personalities.

Added Sept 11: Have I, or the writers, misinterpreted? After all, many multiples are nonbinary; that is, not exclusively male or female, but have both male and female alternate personalities.

1. Micah Rajunov and Scott Duane (Editors). Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity. New York, Columbia University Press, 2019.