I wonder about this in terms of genre. Just as I don’t want to identify as non-binary, regardless of the potential room for accuracy, I don’t want to identify as a “writer of neither genres.” But how much does want matter when perception is what labels us in the mainstream?
Rachel Charlene Lewis writes for Electric Literature on the complications in labeling both genre and gender, and the strength of bending their conventions.
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