Menon-Binary Gloves
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Happy non-binary Pride!
These gloves are inspired by two short essays by Alok Vaid-Menon, a brilliant, gender-nonconforming writer and performance artist who has captured an international audience for their groundbreaking work on gender, race, trauma, and being human. In particular, I’m inspired and awed by their relentless dedication to uncovering and examining the gender binary as a Western, white, colonial, and, ultimately, racist form of oppression.
This pattern was purely a labour of love, as a nerdy non-binary knitter who thinks themself entirely too clever; and admiration, as a long-time follower of Alok Vaid-Menon’s work.
Each glove “reads” one of two quotes from Vaid-Menon about being non-binary, converted into binary code:
“being non-binary isn’t new;
you can’t divide billions into two.”
Sizes
Smaller: approx. 7”/18 cm circumference, 23 cm/9” tall
Larger: approx. 7.5”/19 cm circumference, 25.5 cm/10” tall
Materials
Fingering weight yarn in two colours, approx 125yds of each
US3 (3.25mm) DPNs OR US1.5 (2.5mm) DPNs
stitch markers
tapestry needle
scrap yarn
Gauge
38 sts and 37 rows = 4”/10 cm on larger needles
Techniques used
These gloves are inspired by two short essays by Alok Vaid-Menon, a brilliant, gender-nonconforming writer and performance artist who has captured an international audience for their groundbreaking work on gender, race, trauma, and being human. In particular, I’m inspired and awed by their relentless dedication to uncovering and examining the gender binary as a Western, white, colonial, and, ultimately, racist form of oppression.
This pattern was purely a labour of love, as a nerdy non-binary knitter who thinks themself entirely too clever; and admiration, as a long-time follower of Alok Vaid-Menon’s work.
Each glove “reads” one of two quotes from Vaid-Menon about being non-binary, converted into binary code:
“being non-binary isn’t new;
you can’t divide billions into two.”
Sizes
Smaller: approx. 7”/18 cm circumference, 23 cm/9” tall
Larger: approx. 7.5”/19 cm circumference, 25.5 cm/10” tall
Materials
Fingering weight yarn in two colours, approx 125yds of each
US3 (3.25mm) DPNs OR US1.5 (2.5mm) DPNs
stitch markers
tapestry needle
scrap yarn
Gauge
38 sts and 37 rows = 4”/10 cm on larger needles
Techniques used
- stranded colourwork
- 1 x 1 twisted rib
- knitting in the round
