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, ETC.

Yarn: any fingering-weight yarn

Needles: 3.25mm DPNs OR 2.5mm DPNs

Gauge: 38 sts and 37 rows = 4”/10 cm on larger needles

Notions: Stitch markers, stitch holder or scrap yarn, tapestry needle for weaving in ends

TECHNIQUES USED
Links to how-to videos for each technique used have been included in the pattern

Stranded colourwork
1 x 1 twisted rib