As W Magazine has pointed out that Jessie Mei Li uses both she/her and they/them pronouns. Li explained that the reason she uses both is that she's still learning more about her own gender identity.
"I was thinking, 'Well, am I completely non-binary? What am I?' And I realized, actually I am who I am," she explained. "I'm first and foremost, just a human being who likes what I like. I am also a woman, and that's how the world has viewed me the majority of my life. I'm proud of that as well, and I can identify with both those things."
Li also celebrates the fact that this self-exploration has allowed her to be more of who she feels she truly is — which she says is true for all of us. "I think that's the thing with your pronouns and gender identity, you can just be who you are," she expressed. "That was so freeing to me to understand that I could have multiple pronouns and some friends will refer to me as they, and some will refer to me as she, and that's okay ... I'm proud to be gender nonconforming."
