Let’s Talk About Non-Binary: A Collective for Visibility and Change

Let’s Talk About Non-Binary is a collective for non-binary, gender fluid and genderqueer people, offering meeting spaces in Brussels, Wallonia as well as online. In response to a lack of visibility and representation of non-binary people, they propose a platform for meeting, sharing and reflecting on gender issues, aiming at more inclusiveness and understanding of non-binary identities in our society and our daily life.

“Our first meeting in 2019 resulted with the creation of a discord server. After the pandemic in 2021, during Genres Pluriels’ gender festival, they organised a non-binary meetup. This re-awakened the discord server. Since then we have organised our monthly meetups in Brussels and other cities, but also yearly outings at the beach, participating in multiple Pride events, organising crafting afternoons, parties for the 8th of March and so on. We try to be a very horizontal collective in which everybody can take part as long as it respects our core values of non-discrimination of any kind.”

“Our main priority is to continue putting together our monthly meetups in Brussels. We have also started to have monthly crafting afternoons. Our goal would be that everyone (with enough time and energy) gets to organise their own activity(ies). While the meetups are important to welcome new-comers and have thoughtful discussions, it’s also nice to participate in different activities with safe people in a safe environment. We are also working on being more inclusive. A few issues on how we run our meetups have been raised and we are focused on improving everyone’s experience. Some changes were already made for the last one and we had positive feedbacks.”

“Creating a safe(r) spaces can help improve the situation of non-binary, gender non-conforming, genderfluid and questioning people. The idea of our meetup is to be able to discuss issues and ask questions about being non-binary that people usually aren’t able to discuss in their day-to-day lives. Our meetups are done in chosen mixity to ensure that they are a safe(r) space. We also believe that activism in all its shapes is important. For example, a few people of the collective decided, for the Pride in Brussels, to organise a counter-Pride to denounce the political parties and corporations that don’t have their place there. It was also a way to give visibility to people who don’t usually get to be seen in those events such as non-binary folks, bi-pan people, trans people in general, people of colour, and so on. We also try to be present at other marches, such as the anti-fascist one after the elections or marches for Palestine.”