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Grey Riley sits in their living room on Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at their home in Columbia. When her son came out as nonbinary in middle school, Riley began having conversations about gender with other people, which helped them realize their own genderqueerness identity. “My internal sense of self was very fluid and shiftable. And sometimes I could feel girlish ways but then sometimes I could feel boyish ways, and 90% of the time I just felt like an alien or a cryptid, or something,” Riley said. “I think, honestly, so much of the conversations around identity and the queer community kind of go in reverse. Like, the younger kids are the ones out there teaching us about ourselves more than we are teaching them about themselves. And I think that's honestly really been true for, like, a lot of the history of the queer community. A lot of times it's been the younger people kind of paving the way for older people who hid that sort of thing in secret.”

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