This is a hand-curated collection of 44 creations-- games, zines, and other media-- that are about people who are nonbinary, genderless (agender), genderfluid, genderqueer, bigender, or who do not identify as only a man or only a woman all of the time.
This collection is part of my directory of other people's creations on itch.io, Curated Collections of LGBTQIA, where you can find more collections about other topics. I personally select and review each creation in them to make sure they meet the criteria of queer positivity, authenticity, and quality, even if they are different than my own views or experiences as a queer person myself.
Content: Rated PG-13
Medium: An interactive fiction story created with Ink. It can run in your web browser.
Length: About ten minutes long. You can play it again to make different choices along the way and reveal different variations on the storyline, though it always reaches the same ending (as far as I know).
Genre: Fiction in a realistic setting.
About: You loved Pokémon Red, where you had no choice but to play as a boy. Now that Pokémon Crystal has been released, you're excited to finally get to choose for your character to be a girl. You wonder why that choice feels strangely difficult.
Told through a series of vignettes that are likely to be familiar to Millennials, the trans masculine nonbinary protagonist grows up and is prompted to question their gender through interactions with school, friends, and loved ones, as well as through the character selection screens in well-known video games over the years.
They're especially delighted by the nonbinary option in Fallen London.
Mood: Nostalgic, anxious, hopeful.
archive of the nonbinary wiki
Content: Rated PG for a couple of swear words.
Accessibility: Not screen reader friendly.
Medium: Book, zine. There is a version for reading on screen and a version for printing.
Length: About a five minute read.
Genre: Nonfiction, personal.
About: The author describes his feelings of looking forward to top surgery after scheduling it, and reflects on what held him back from doing it sooner even though he had always wanted it.
Queer themes: Transgender. Nonbinary. Transition.
Mood: Excitement.
Content: Rated PG-13. Sexuality and body dysphoria.
Accessibility: Not screen reader friendly.
Medium: A mini zine that can be printed and folded from one piece of paper.
Length: Four small pages, with cover. Under a five minute read.
Genre: Nonfiction, personal.
About: As described by the author,
"as a nonbinary person, my thoughts for what I want from top surgery are often conflicting and confusing. this zine shows the spiral that my thoughts usually take when I get stuck on the topic."
Queer themes: Transgender. Trans masculine nonbinary people. Transition.
Reviewer's note to readers who may be new to the idea of nonbinary genders: What body shape each nonbinary person wants to have is unique to them as an individual, it isn't one size fits all. Some nonbinary people have complicated feelings about their chests, as in this zine, whereas others have very simple feelings about wanting or not wanting to have breasts.
Mood: Anxious.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A book, a mini zine.
Genre: Nonfiction.
About why the author goes by it/its pronouns.
Mood: Mysterious.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A tiny computer game created with Bitsy. It runs in your web browser. This is a walking simulator with no ending and no choices.
Length: About ten minutes to see all.
Genre: Futuristic science fiction.
About: What would you give up to be yourself? You left the Earth to be true to yourself.
Queer themes: Transgender. Nonbinary.
Content: Rated G. Background music with no lyrics. WARNING FOR FLICKERING LIGHTS. There is a different version that you can download that doesn't have flickering lights.
Medium: A computer game created with Bitsy. It can run in your web browser.
Length: About five minutes. You can play again and make different choices to reveal different text.
Genre: Philosophy.
About: This was created for the nonbinary game jam. The game describes how philosophers divide everything in the world into elements. This is about how dividing things into categories changes how we think about things. If everything is either fire or water, what is a dragon?
Mood: Mysterious.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: Comic book.
About: As described by the authors,
"SHUVAH is an 11-page comic created for Heartwood: Non-Binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy (2019, Power & Magic Press) about Ofra, a middle-aged trans Jew who returns to the forest where they had a mysterious experience 40 years earlier. A collaboration with Ezra's partner Jey Barnes, the story was co-developed, with the script then written by Ezra and illustrated by Jey. It features uniquely Jewish forest spirits, a lovable scruffy dog companion, and themes of self-acceptance, growth and change."
Queer themes: Transgender. Trans feminine nonbinary people.
Vibe: Mysterious.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: Books, mini zines. This is a pair of mini zines, designed to be printed and folded from a single sheet of paper each.
Genre: Nonfiction.
About: One mini zine is advice for people who are nonbinary about their transition options, focusing on how nonbinary people don't necessarily look androgynous or have a medical transition. The other mini zine is a primer on what "nonbinary" means, and some words to know.
Content: Rated G. Fantasy body horror imagery and simple artistic gore.
Medium: An illustrated book.
Length: 15 pages. About a five minute read.
Genre: Nonfiction, memoir, journal.
About: This uses horror imagery to express the artist's feelings of degradation and alienation because of having to move back into her parents' suburban home, where she has no sense of belonging or community. The artist explained,
"I make a lot of sad art. I just never share it with anyone. I made this a year ago back in October 2023. I had just started HRT [hormone replacement therapy] a month or so before writing it and my intent was to print it small and hide it in nooks and crannies around my town."
Queer themes: Transgender. Trans feminine nonbinary people.
Vibe: Sad, but with a direction toward hope.
Content: Rated G. Warning for talk about institutional sexism (governmental and medical discrimination against transgender people).
Medium: A tiny computer game created with Bitsy. It runs in your web browser. This is a kinetic game with one ending and no choices.
Length: About three minutes.
Genre: Nonfiction, diary, memoir.
About: The author's experiences of questioning, coming out, and starting hormone therapy during a time that is difficult for transgender people.
Queer themes: Transgender women and trans feminine nonbinary people. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT), estrogen, and finasteride.
Vibe: Serious.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A book, a zine.
Length: Eight pages. About a three minute read.
About: A colorful experiment in using mixed media to describe the author's un-describable nonbinary gender.
Vibe: Fun.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: A mini zine. You can print and fold it from a single sheet of paper.
Genre: Nonfiction, workbook.
About: A tiny little journaling workbook that you can fill out to explore your gender.
Vibe: Fun.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: Book, a mini zine that you can print and fold from a single piece of paper.
Genre: Nonfiction.
About: The genderfluid author's reasons for going by xe/xir pronouns.
Content: Rated G.
Medium: Instructions for a physical game. The instruction book is available in a version for reading on screen, and another version for printing and folding as a zine.
Genre: Comedy, satire.
About: You play this game as you go about your day in real life. For anything you see, do, wear, feel, or experience, use the Genderizer 3000 to assign either a male or female gender to them. This game is meant to be a satire that helps us notice how much of life is divided into these genders, how arbitrary and nonsensical it can be, and how these made-up divisions might be getting in the way of us enjoying full happy lives.
Content: Rated PG-13.
Medium: Book, zine. There is a version for reading on screen and a version for printing.
About: This is a punk parody of a zine that you print and fill out to describe your gender.
Queer themes: Transgender, nonbinary, xenogender, questioning.
Vibe: Satirical, punk, anarchic.
Content: Rated G. Warning for description of family members expressing sexist discrimination.
Medium: Comic book.
Length: 38 pages, with covers.
Genre: Nonfiction. Memoir. Commentary on media.
About: "A comic exploring the creator's nonbinary identity and feeling like a werewolf through the roleplaying game 'Women are Werewolves.'"
Content: Rated PG-13. Blood. Bare chest of a person who isn't a woman.
Medium: Comic book.
Genre: Nonfiction. Memoir.
About: "Collection of autobio comics I drew during 2018-2019, more or less chronicling my first 18 months on testosterone."
Queer themes: Transgender. Nonbinary. Transition.
Content: Rated PG. Swear words.
Medium: Book.
Genre: Nonfiction. Cookbook.
Length: Twelve pages long, with covers.
About: Recipes and body positivity.
Queer themes: Transgender, nonbinary.
Vibe: Loving.
Content: Rated PG-13. About dysphoria. Mentions sexual assault. Bare chest of a person who isn't a woman.
Medium: A short nonfiction writing piece, enhanced with multimedia and interactive elements. It runs in your web browser.
Length: A five minute read.
About the author's complicated feelings about his breasts, as a nonbinary person who doesn't want to be thought of as a woman but also doesn't want top surgery.
Queer themes: Transgender. Trans masculine agender. Gender dysphoria.
Vibe: Candid.
Content: Rated PG-13. Warning for examples of sexism (slurs and myths about people who are transgender, lesbian, or bisexual), and description of puberty.
Medium: Book. An anthology zine. Essays, comics, poetry, and illustrations.
Genre: Nonfiction.
Length: 28 pages, with covers.
About: As described in its listing,
"#EnbyLife is a zine of collected stories, poetry, comics and art by non-binary and gender diverse people. Non-binary (enby) people are those of us who don't fit within Western society's gender binary (male/female). Our stories are often erased (if even heard at all).
The amazing artists and creatives in this zine include: Sally King, Wolfram-J VK of QueerContent, Madi, Emory Alden Black, Luca, Nicki Warren, AlexB, Anonymous, Doc, Izzie Austin, and Rae White."
The main character of these furry science fiction comics is neutrois, which is a nonbinary gender.
Content: Rated PG-13. Warnings for swear words, simple drawings of nude body parts, sexism (transphobia), and non-consensual drugging of drinks.
Medium: A short visual novel. It runs in your web browser.
Genre: Fantasy. Furry.
Length: About ten minutes.
About: An ostrich witch who runs a magic shop creates Build-A-Gender potions. The mini game for creating the potions is interesting: you choose five items from a long list of different aspects of gender dysphoria and euphoria, and then the witch summarizes what they might mean in combination. For the player, this can be a practical tool for thinking about gender, how to break it down into parts, and how to describe the genders of one's self and others.
The story explores different uses for these potions. The witch gets the idea from a customer who asks for a potion to make his child stop being transgender. The witch angrily hatches a plan to make transphobes have one day of firsthand experience of what it feels like to have gender dysphoria. Luckily, a friend stops the witch and warns that this plan would be unethical for many reasons. The friend suggests more thoughtful uses. For example, people questioning their own genders could use a potion to compare against their usual feelings.
Content: Rated PG-13. Blood, gore (not detailed), body horror, unreality, dissociation, body dysphoria, body dysmorphia, compulsive eyelash pulling (trichotillomania).
Medium: Comic book.
Length: 64 pages, with covers.
Genre: Memoir.
Queer themes: Nonbinary. Description of dysphoria. Transition.
Content: Rated PG-13. Dialog about hook-ups, not explicit.
Medium: A game created with Bitsy. It runs in your web browser.
Length: About five minutes. One ending, no choices, one play through to see all.
About: Two enbies who drive giant mechs flirt with each other.
Queer themes: Nonbinary people. Dysphoria. Queer relationships.
Vibe: Charming, silly.
"Assets: Mug, Cap, Bucket hat, Bow, Tie, Folding Fan, Party Hat, Shark Plushs, Protest Sign, Button Pin, Pin, Handheld Flags, Poster, Flags and Flag Poles, Balloons, Balloon Arches, Umbrella, Garlands
"Pride Flags: Agender, Asexual, Bisexual, Gay Men, Genderfluid, Genderqueer, Intersex, Lesbian, Nonbinary, Pansexual, Rainbow, Rainbow Progressive, Straight, Straight Ally, Trans and many more"
(emphasis added)
Content: Rated PG. Mentions of trauma and abuse.
Medium: Book. Zine. There is a version for reading on screen, and a version for printing and folding.
Genre and subject: Nonfiction.
Length: 48 pages.
About: As described by the creator,
"I personally have a weird story about how I got to my name and I love hearing other trans people's stories about their names so I want to make a work honoring those unique experiences! This 48 page zine collects the short stories, personal essays, and poetry written by transgender and nonbinary people about their relationship with their chosen name."
Queer themes: transgender women, transgender men, and nonbinary people. LGBTQIA BIPOC. Spirituality, religion, and irreligion among LGBTQIA people.
Vibe: Hope and joy. Gender euphoria.
Content: Rated R. Nudity and sexual content.
Medium: Book. Zine.
About: As described by the author,
"a zine about my nonbinary relationship with my own chest. it is made other nonbinary people in mind, especially to those to whom going through mastectomy feels very complicated."
Content: Rated PG-13. Sexual health education.
Accessibility: Screen reader friendly.
Medium: Book. Zine.
Genre: Nonfiction.
Length: Twelve pages, with covers.
About: The trans nonbinary author shares advice from their experiences with taking Testosterone (T). They tell about the voice changes as a trained signer, nutritional supplements to prevent cramping from muscle growth as a kung fu nerd, and changes in sexual feelings as a 95% asexual. They also share about bottom growth and changes in needs for protein and care for skin and body hair.
Queer themes: transition, trans masculine hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
Vibe: Positive and helpful with a touch of exasperated humor.
