ABSTRACT
Alongside the new taxonomies, categories and languages of gender and sexuality are a number of new ways of organising and understanding both gender and relationships. Beginning with a critique that attempts to update Judith Butler’s ‘heterosexual matrix’ for the twenty-first century, this chapter examines new gender terminology, transitions and pronouns. It looks at what non-binary identity (as a label) does for the critique of gender norms and explores how new axes of ‘attraction’, including platonic, aesthetic and sensual, compete with the more traditional romantic and sexual attraction forms. Together, these complexify the heterosexual matrix, further undoing regimes of compulsory heterosexuality.
