Let’s start here: I’m mixed race, Chinese and white. My mother is Chinese, and she immigrated to the US during the 1980’s, to pursue her graduate degree at UCLA. My father is a white amerikkkan who raised me and my brother with white supremacist, sinophobic beliefs. Both my parents voted…

If the very act of existing in a marginalized body is an act of resistance to societal norms, then dancing in a marginalized body is downright revolutionary. So often, dance creates a physical language for culture, story, and, yes, gender norms. This physical language tells us that certain people can…

To answer the question in the title: YES, you belong and deserve to take up space. But not every dance class is ready to honor you in that space, and that is tremendously unfair. …

What happens when movements are described as inherently feminine or masculine? I would challenge dance teachers to dig a little deeper and utilize more descriptive language that all students can conceptualize. I’ve been in class where the whole theme of the choreography was described as “very masculine”. That’s it. The…

Hi! My name’s Harmony. I started nb_d MOVEMENT because I love to dance and have found it challenging to self express as a non binary dancer in heavily binary dance spaces. I believe “non-binary dance” should be “no big deal”. …

This is what happens when dance classes DON’T create gender expansive space: it pushes the labor back on the students to educate the teacher, advocate for their own presence, or operate in silence. Non-binary and trans folks in class often end up feeling out of place, searching for cues that…