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Saw this painting by Max Ernst in a museum today and it's the most accurate depiction of my gender experience I've ever seen

It captures the interaction femininity and non-binarity have within myself so well. The right figure is femininity or female identity within myself holding up non-binarity and helping it stand as it is more easily defined and less complex to describe. The left figure changes texture and materials a lot and is hard to describe and grasp and really caputures how hard it is for me to grasp my own idea of non-binarity. And I like that they're hugging and interacting because that's what I feel like as well.

I saw it in the exhibition "Queere Moderne" at Kunststammlung NRW. Here's more info about the artwork on their website: https://sammlung.kunstsammlung.de/en/works/3507

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