Between The Binary
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6 min readDec 19, 2017
How moving into a country of gendered language can change the way you navigate the world
‘Une chaise’, ‘un arbre’, ‘Une pomme’. A female chair, a male tree, a female apple.
When I moved to Paris last year I felt I had to rewire my brain in order to fit every noun I knew previously to be genderless into two neat boxes, and I still don’t quite know the rules for sorting them. Learning any language has its…
