I’mWE: Beyond the Binary
We are each born into a body, but not into a single story. The traditional idea dictates that our identities must align with fixed gender binaries and conform to narrow standards. It shapes—and contorts—how we see one another, how we allow ourselves to be seen, limits human expression, and impoverishes society.
My I’mWE project rejects that confinement.
Through visual composites that blend traditionally gendered forms, I’mWE reimagines the human body as fluid, liberated, and unapologetically whole. Each image collapses the physical and psychological divide between “male” and “female,” to reveal the shared humanity beneath it. This is not androgyny for its own sake. It’s an invitation to embrace multiplicity within us all.
In a climate of resurgent repression, where reactionaries seek to police bodies, identities, and impose binary conformity, these images insist on wholeness and liberation.
They offer new ways of seeing ourselves, others, and especially those whose sexual or gender identities have been erased, caricatured, or shoved into closets. For some viewers, the images reflect an inner reality long denied or validate a choice to be. For others, they might be disorienting, disrupting the comfort of clear categories. But dissonance need not be threatening. It can open possibilities for new understandings of self and other. It’s creative. It’s liberating.
This work emerges from, and speaks into, a broader cultural moment in which visibility matters, and representation has power. Yet I’mWE is not about representation alone. It’s about presence. Wholeness. These blended bodies visualize the truth that we are not fragmented opposites but lie within a spectrum of colors between black and white.
We are not this or that. We are this and that. We are beauty made plural. We are I’mWE.
-Nicholas King