In this StyleLikeU video, Alok Vaid-Menon describes the ways gender is not about body parts. “The world I’m fighting for is where we stop making assumptions around everything [and] where we allow people to self-narrate their bodies,” says Vaid-Menon, an Indian-American poet. “I think that’s a profoundly radical act, because we exist in a western colonial system that’s invested in categorizing every single thing about you and creating norms about every single thing, rather than actually recognizing none of us fit into norms.” [via StyleLikeU]