unwoke: lgbtq

unbroke: samnv

SAMNV: sapphic, achillean, mspec, nonconformant (of gender)/nonnormative, variant(s)

intervex:

Term proposal: gender sodality

As is, we have terms like:

  • Intergender: when your gender is connected, linked, or influenced by being intersex
  • Neurogender: when your gender is connected, linked, or influenced by being neurodivergent
  • Somatogender: when your gender is connected, linked or influenced by having a somatic disability
  • Indigender: when your gender is connected, linked, or influenced to being part of an Indigenous culture

These aren’t gender modalities. While sometimes they get used as gender identities, they often aren’t: they’re descriptors of the influence(s) on one’s gender identity.

I’d like to propose that we call them gender sodalities. 🎉

The word “sodality” is used in theology and anthropology as a contrast to “modality”. It comes from Latin sodalis (“companion”) and is used to refer to non-kin groups organized a shared purpose or affiliation. I like it here because these gender terms indicate that one’s gender is in conjunction with being part of a community.

Right now these gender terms tend to get grouped under exclusive genders, and they are exclusive, but I want a way to talk about the the influence descriptors that doesn’t apply to the exclusive gender identities and/or exclusive gender modalities.

I considered calling them “gender influences” but that word pair gets used a lot to refer to things like how one’s gender influences what occupation you pursue and stuff. Also: “gender identity”, “gender modality”, and “gender quality” all end in -ity and so I wanted to keep the trend going. @GoingRampant helped brainstorm ideas for terms with me and helped pick “sodality” out of the options.

Gender sodalities can be combined: for example, one who feels like their gender is a function of being both intersex and autistic could then say their gender sodality is interautigender.

I’m also going to coin two non-exclusive gender sodality terms:

1. Coenogender for when one has a sense of gender that feels connected, linked, or influenced by being part of the common hegemonic zeitgeist of Global North / Western society. Coeno- is used in scientific terminology to denote something is common or general. Does *not* mean the individual approves of Global North binarism! One can be influenced by something and also feel like it is a negative/restrictive influence! (Coeno- is usually pronounced /si:no/ in English, like see-no. It comes from Greek, and in Greek it’s pronounced closer to kee-no. I personally consider both correct.)

2. Eigengender for when one has a sense of gender that feels inherent to one’s self and unrelated to their intersex status, disability status, culture, etc. So one is not intergender, not neurogender, not somatogender, not indigender, nor coenogender. Eigen- in reference to the prefix used math: an eigenvector is one which is unchanged under transformation. It comes from German, meaning “one’s own”, characteristic of a given individual. Pronounced /ˈaɪ̯ɡən/ (like eye-gun – sound recording here)

Note: I am intergender, and do not identify as eigengender, though I do feel at least partly coenogender. Eigengender is coined in response to an anonymous ask for a term more general than extergender (not-intergender). Coenogender is coined as an option for those who feel none of the above and/or the “default” sodality.

Note for Americans: the spelling of coeno– with the o is intentional. This is because a different scientific prefix, caeno– (new/recent) gets Americanized as ceno– (e.g. Cenozoic). The two prefixes have different etymologies. It’s standard to spell coeno– with the o to avoid confusion, including in the US.

Tagging for archival: @liom-archive @radiomogai @themogaidragon

genderkoolaid:

“Misandrogyny is a system of mechanisms that—together with other systems of oppression—enforces the norms that constitute the patriarchal gender binary. According to those norms, everyone is either only a man or only a woman; GNC folk don’t exist. Misandrogyny enforces this nonexistence by (i) assigning GNC folk to a binary gender and punishing non-conformity to that gender, (ii) assimilating GNC folk and cultures into the binary gender system, and (iii) eliminating GNC folk and cultures. Although much has been written on gender policing, binary gender norms, transphobia, and other topics related to misandrogyny, we also need to appreciate that misandrogyny is a system of mechanisms that punishes those who violate binary gender norms. Future work should elaborate further on how misandrogyny intersects with other systems of oppression, including misogyny, transphobia, white supremacy, ableism, classism, and settler colonialism; and it should spell out how mechanisms of annihilation bring about social, legal, institutional, and epistemic nonexistence.”

— The Logic of Misandrogyny by Jeff M. Engelhardt

isabellascarlett1:

Happy Aro Week to:

– Aplatonic Aros 💗

– BIPOC Aros 💗

– Neurodivergent Aros 💗

– Aro Lesbians 💗

– Aro Gays 💗

– Non-monogamous Aros 💗

– Trans Aros 💗

– Romance repulsed Aros 💗

– Romance favorable Aros 💗

– AlloAros 💗

– AroAces 💗

– Aros in romantic relationships 💗

– Aros in Queerplatonic relationships 💗

– All Aros 💞

edwardallenpoe:

the "always has been" meme with earth having "aphobia" on it in white text, a quote above the first astronaut saying "wait, it was all just ableism?" and a quote above the second astronaut who's pointing a gun at the first astronaut saying "always has been"ALT

Whenever I see aphobia this is all I can think about. If you think loveless people are “psychotic” or “narcissistic” or “broken” I know how you actually feel about disordered/disabled people. Just telling on yourself with this one chief.

socksonat3am:

I made some more spooky Pride flags(these are by request)!

In order as they appear the flags are Abrosexual, AroAce, Aegosexual, Binotrix, Demiromantic, Lesboy, Mesque, OmniLesbian, Quoisexual, and Butch!

Use them as you wish! But credit me please! (And maybe follow my twitter! The username is the same as here @socksonat3am

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So, I recently decided to get a game for my phone called Pazu Girls Hair Salon, and while many of the things I wanted to do with it require Pazu Plus, I have been having some fun with the things that aren’t behind a paywall/subscription wall. And that includes the following Pride flag inspired styles:

Progress, ace, and bi. Soon I’m going to do and post pan, polyamorous, polysexual, four different versions of trans hairdos (two to represent those newly transitioning, and two to represent those who have been out for a while), and more.

Pan, newly transitioned trans, and fully transitioned trans.

Aro and intersex

And yeah, even though it’s the same two models, I like to imagine they’re different people each time. They just look the same.

Genderqueer, polyam, agender

Polysexual and nb

Have some lesbians!

Gay man and abros

Bigender, gender flux, maverique

Gender-fluid , stargender, xenogender, aesthetigender

The GNC special!

Trigender, dilkian, astorian

Erosian, ILI, cupio

Demifluid, gai, gaibian, simiac

Lumibrous, solibrous, pangender

I’ve started just doing one per flag where possible to cut down on phone space and try to get as many as possible in there without running into the Tumblr media limit.

Bear and leather

Valene and Mione

Terine

Fraspe and frithian

Florian, carolisexual, binotrix, Binitor

genderstarbucks:

Binoflexible + Binitrix!!

Binoflexible (also known as Binotrixflexible) is a term for when one is binotrix (being bi or otherwise mspec with no attraction to women) but being flexible in this identity. A binoflexible individual will always be attracted to non-women but very rarely will be attracted to women.

Biniflexible (also known as Binitrixflexible) is a term for when one is binitrix (being bi or otherwise mspec with no attraction to men) but being flexible in this identity. A biniflexible individual will always be attracted to non-men but very rarely will be attracted to men.

faggot-selfships:

Important Announcement

I kept going back and forth with what pronouns to use

But I finally figured out which one and how I want to use them!

I got new pronouns! I like ‘em! 🏳️‍⚧️

Keep reading

Binotrix Pride Flag

cookiejarids:

radiomogai:

beyond-mogai-pride-flags:

Binotrix (bi-no-trix) or Binetrix (bi-ne-trix): someone who is bi- but not attracted to women; a nowoma- person considering emself bi+ in specific form(s) of attraction.

Combining the bisexual flag purple with enboric and mascic flags. – AP

[PT: Binotrix Pride Flag. end PT]

[ID: a rectangular flag with 5 stripes, the colours from top to bottom are: mint green, white, purple, azure blue, black. End ID]

accessibilitea:

voidfanged:

— SCHIZOLUMIN

[pt, schizolumin, end pt]

a term/identity for pwSchizoaffective who connect with being an angel or being of the sun and nature due to having a disconnect with people; with themes of angels, flowers, the forest, the sun, books, and words.

requested by anon!

[ID 1: A flag with 7 horizontal stripes, that gradients from bright yellow to dark-ish lime and back again. In the middle of the flag, there’s the schizospec symbol in th color yellow, a w shaped arrow, which points both leftwards and rightwards. the arrow is surrounded by a spiky blob, reminiscent of an aura, which is the color yellow as well /end ID 1]

[ID 2: A lime line divider with a big bat symbol in the middle /end ID 2]

@radiomogai

just curious: are neogirl and neoboy considered nontrinary?

arco-pluris:

are they nonbinary in a binary system? if so, and the genders from such binary system are identical to two of the gendernesses within trinary system, then I’d say so.

typically it depends on if they are seen as nonbinary primarily/originally. does that make sense?

in my pov, neobinarities are philosophal.

I have facebook texts that talk about my viewpoints

another point is: neomulher (roughly neowoman) means trans woman in Brazil, a humorous term by Jo Soares.

to break this down: if you believe “the future is not trinary”, then yes neoboy is nontrinary

cyberneticloverboy:

01. sainylique! (sayn-ill-eek)

[pt: sainylique, pronounced sayn-ill-eek]

a gender which feels exclusive to the user in a holy, untainted, and pure way. this gender may feel angelic and “perfect”, a unique and virtuous way of experiencing gender.

02. demylique! (dem-ill-eek)

[pt: demylique, pronounced dem-ill-eek]

a gender which feels exclusive to the user in an unholy, tainted, and evil way. this gender may feel demonic and “tarnished”, a unique and wicked way of experiencing gender.

no spoons for id, help appreciated but not forced ❤
coined by felix!
sainylique for gold!
queued 20/1/25

A divider of eight heart shapes, spaced out evenly. The hearts are magenta.ALT

taglist!!! @radiomogai @idwl @rwuffles @daybreakthing @boingogender

taglist 2!!! @cocajimmycola @flutteringwings-coining

A point a friend on discord made was People with “mild” variations are often invalidated when they call themselves intersex and attacked, and not all people feel safe saying they are intersex for that reason and end up saying they are perisex. A term between the two would help with the safety of those people who do not feel safe and who are often forced to be put in a position they are not in.Not all people with mild variations consider themselves intersex. However, they are not considered perisex because they have variations in sex.Not everyone likes to use intersex. This is because they may find it very medicalizing (and sometimes the person has a variation in visible sex, but does not fit or does not want to see it fit into any medical term) or they may find it not medicalizing at all (some people really have problems with their sexual variation, causing disabilities, for example, and prefer to use more medical terms that define this). So, for those who feel that intersex is too medicalizing a term, you may prefer to use alternative termsI’m the asker about spectrum and I wanted to let you know these points Also. When I think about intersex as a spectrum, I meant in the linguistic/conceptual aspect. As like graysexual is in the asexual spectrum.Myself, my intersex variation isn’t studied yet (partial or mild EIS). And mesosex resonates with me. Even though in the end I could go with just being a dyadic ally or questioning/quoisex/extersex. I also feel as if like both the terms perisex and intersex could fit meSome people also say sex is a statistically bimodal spectrum. What do you think about it?

ipso-faculty:

Thanks for sharing! I’m glad the term mesosex resonates with you 😄 It’s honestly really useful to hear from people who feel the term mesosex resonates with them. I put the word out there because I had a sense there’s a demand but as somebody who feels solidly intersex I feel honestly weird having a say in a label I don’t myself use.

If you didn’t see it already, a mesosex person chimed into the original thread.

To me intersex is the anti-medicalizing term, especially in contrast to DSD, which to me is 100% medicalized. But that’s just me!

Analogies about Biological Sex

So you also asked about my thoughts on sex as a “statistically bimodal spectrum”, and the short answer is I think the term bimodal is misleading and possibly circular, and there are better analogies out there.

I already agree with what others have pointed out about sex not being a spectrum – a spectrum has one dimension (a line), and sex has dozens of dimensions (chromosomes, hormones, etc). Out of the analogies I’ve seen, I like most Hans Lindahl’s train tracks analogy for sex development.

But I’m gonna guess that by “sex as a statistically bimodal spectrum” you mean “sex as a statistically probability distribution/density” and take this as something distinct from the sex-as-spectrum model.

As it turns out, I have a lot to say about “bimodal”

In my experience, people tend to have huge misconceptions about what statistically bimodal means. It understandably gets conflated a lot with the idea that there are two separate populations.

So let’s think about height. People will say things like “height is bimodal” because they’re conditioned to think that men and women are separate, and the average man is taller than the average woman.

And when they say things like “height is bimodal” they think the distribution for adults will look like this:

But here’s what the adult human height distribution looks like:

The thing about normal/Gaussian distributions is that adding them together is tends to result in something that also looks normal/Gaussian.

If we look back at pink and blue distributions I hand drew, there’s a visual sleight of hand going on there. Where the area under the curve is pink or blue, we can think of one pixel as representing one human in the data set. But in the part where they overlap, it’s not one pixel per human, its one pixel for two humans – one from the womens’ data set, one from the men’s data set.

The result is that the size of the overlap looks half as small as it should be. It leads people to mistakenly think there is less overlap between men and women than there actually is.

So if we actually take that overlap and show how the distributions add together, we get something that immediately stops looking so “bimodal”:

With the two probability distributions that I drew there might be a small dip in the middle, but it would be quite small. 🙃

Two probability distributions need to be really far apart for them to produce something that actually looks bimodal. (Specifically, the difference between the means needs to be smaller than twice the standard deviation – details here.)

True bimodal distributions are rare. They do exist in nature. But most of the time when people see a probability distribution with two peaks, it is a result of misleading visuals, noisy data, or poorly-binned histograms. 👀

In grad school I was taught that bimodality is a sign your data is suspicious: “Statisticians are trained to be suspicious of distributions with multiple modes. Such distributions usually indicate inhomogeneity in the system, or, in plainer language, different causes for the different modes. All familiar proverbs about the inadvisibility of mixing apples and oranges apply.” (Gould, 1981)

In particular, the misinterpretation of (apparently) bimodal data has been used to confirm eugenicist ideas about racial differences, because when it comes to statistics we’re always a step or two away from having to grapple with the legacy of eugenics. ⚠️

So let’s get back the original question about seeing sex as statistically bimodal. The average person understands bimodal to mean “two populations”, not statistical bimodality.

So before I even get into what sex even is, right off the bat this analogy is dangerously circular: sex is what it is because it’s two separate populations.

Sex in humans is determined by a whole bunch of things that tend to correlate with each other (chromosomes, SRY gene, androgen levels, androgen sensitivity, estrogen levels, estrogen sensitivity, etc), so I can see the desire to illustrate that some things co-occur together more than others!

But I agree with @queercripintersex in the discussion of your previous ask that trying to project the multiple dimensions of sex into one dimension loses too much information, and is difficult to even do because so many factors are non-continuous (chromosomes, etc).

For the continuous variables, you can in theory try to find out if they have bimodal probability distributions. But quite rapidly run into issues of poor data. The data on testosterone levels in women is shockingly insufficient. Like I went looking for distributions of free testosterone levels and just look at how much noisier and sparse the data is for women (on the left) compared to men (on the right):

Source: Ooi et al, 1198

Even with all the noise in the data it’s still unlikely that at any of the age categories, that the men’s data and women’s data added together would produce bimodal distributions. There’s too much overlap.

As a general rule of thumb, any given physical difference (hormones, measurements, etc) has more variation within the sexes than between them.

Our culture has vastly overestimated the biological differences between the sexes. 😫 So I worry that adopting a sex-as-bimodal-distributions analogy will only feed this misconception. 🫤 I’m personally going to avoid using the analogy.

by proxy (por tabela): umbrella term for those who are indirectly or conditionally certain identity or within a specific community, or being biopolitically or extrapersonally identified (heteroidentification) as something depending on a given context or definition

example: white stripe asexuals; trans-aligned detransitioners; acquired sex traits that are commonly associated with intersex community; experimenting, curious, or questioning people among specific places that talk about these life experiences; belonging in an umbrella term that is commonly seen as the hyponym despite being a “sibling”, “cousin”, or a “relative” in such larger endogroup; allies and social contacts that protect and support such structurally marginalized person but are culturally persecuted for doing so

lobisbicho (unspecific grammatical gender), lobisbichx (neoneutral/indeterminate), lobisbiche (neoneuter/neoinanimate), or lobisbixe (socioneutral/cryptolectical): werefolk/wereperson/werehuman

yt westerners really think theres no intersectional imperialism. no blackness in Brazil, no white supremacy in Latin America, and that genocide, ethnic erasure, and racial cleasing in the americas were all justified after all

gloaming-sometimes:

ID/ a 7 stripe flag with a black bear paw in the upper left corner. the stripes colors from top to bottom are reddish orange, dark orange, light tangerine, warm yellow, white, warm grey and nearly black dark brown.ALT
ID/ a 7 stripe flag with a black bear paw in the upper left corner. the stripes colors from top to bottom are royal blue, indigo, lavender, light pink, white, cool grey, and nearly black dark blue.ALT
ID/ a 7 stripe flag with a black bear paw in the upper left corner. the stripes colors from top to bottom are deep magenta, rose, bubblegum pink, coral, white, pinkish grey, and nearly black dark magenta. ALT

butch bear || femme bear || butchfemme* bear

combo flags for butch, femme and butchfemme* bears! i suppose it is “geared towards” genderqueer/multigender/ect gaybians and sapphilleans, however these flags can be used by anyone who self identifies as butch/femme/butchfemme and as a bear this flag is for you 🙂

*when i say butchfemme i mean anyone who is butch and femme, whatever that means to the individual. the butchfemme i used in the title can be replaced with femmebutch, futch, or any other terms for this identity.

image descriptions in alt text!!

exemptuen: excempt from gender

ultravioletian: ultraviolet gender

beyond-mogai-pride-flags:

Juvelic Monogamy

Monogamy/monoamory: aspiring to be or being in a relationship with another individual, typically associated with being partnered and fidelitous singularly to that individual.

Monogamous Vincian (QLM/MLQ)/Achillean (MLM) Flag

the background is pear green above with black lowercase mu letter tails up, and blue below with the rest of mu in white.ALT

Vincian/achilean: a man-loving miaspec person or mascic queer folk; umbrella term for gayLm (gay for men/min), mingender/male pluralians (mspec), MDM/MSM (men who date/sex men) on the anattractional spectrum (aspec), gae/gai nlm (toric gĂŚ/QAI nblm) along other adjacent communities; inclusive of torians and other toradonic folks who wish to be included.

Monogamous Sapphic Pride Flag

the background is pink above with black lowercase mu letter tails up, and purple below with the rest of mu in white.ALT

Sapphic: queer loving women (QLW)/woman loving queeries (WLQ); umbrella term for lesbians, fingender/fiaspec pluralians, WSW/WDW (women who sex/date women) who are are aspec (nullarians/aloeians/athenians/absolnians/nullic nullians), trixians (gai trixic/gae nlw/QAI nblf)/SGA/SSA primlunic folk, and other adjacent groups and members of the community that wish to be included.

Duaric Monogamy Pride Flag

the background is pink above with black lowercase mu letter tails up, and blue below with the rest of mu in white.ALT

Duaric: woman-loving men or man-loving women; umbrella term for pluralians experiencing different/other-gender attraction and monospec hetero people. Inclusive of varioriented, aspec, and aptobinaryn’t folx.

Enbian Monogamy Flag

the background is comfy yellow above with black lowercase mu letter tails up, and vivid indigo below with the rest of mu in white.ALT

Enbian: nonbinary-loving nonbinary (NLN/NBLNB) person. Inclusive of cenelians, celarsians, and amplusic/ultric cypric people.

Diamoric/Mestric Monogamy Pride Flag

the background is vivid pear green above with black lowercase mu letter tails up, and ground mauve below with the rest of mu in white.ALT

Mestric: an umbrella term that includes any relationship, attraction, orientation, or partnership that includes non-binary individual(s), and all those that cannot be categorised according to a same-gender vs. opposite gender dichotomy.
Diamoric, also known as adonian, adonic, or cypric, is a term used by some non-binary individuals to describe their orientation, which does not fit into the similar/opposite gender attraction dichotomy due to being a uniquely non-binary experience. The term does not specify what gender(s) one is attracted to, it only specifies that one is non-binary and experiences attraction in a non-binary specific way.

beyond-mogai-pride-flags:

Bi Monogamous Pride Flag

the background is vivid vivid violet/lavender above with black lowercase mu letter tails up, and deep indigo below with the rest of mu in white.ALT

Bi: bispec (bi- spectrum) or bi+ (bi* plus more identities), which is an umbrella term for experiencing attraction or relationships involving more than one gender; attraction from two to all genders; being attracted to both male and female sexes (in the linear/bimodal spectrum, disregarding sex constellation model); (dated) duogamous, androgynous (ambiguous-presenting), intersex, androgyne (bigender/intergender), gynandromorphous or androgynomorphous (andromorphic gynomorph or gynomorphic andromorph); ambivalent attraction; sexually ambiguous or sexuality nonduality; more broadly, encompassing mspec identities, such as pan, ply, omni, tri, abro, amplusic, fluid, unlabeled, etc.

Monogamy or monoamoury: aspiring to be or being in a stable relationship with another person, typically monofidelitous partnering structure; enamouring or marrying only one person.

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beyond-mogai-pride-flags:

Monoamorous/Monogamous Lesbian Pride Flag

Monogamous/Monoamorous: being or aspiring to be in a gamous/amorous (marital/enamored) relationship; performing monofidelity or a singular interpersonal partnering (couple); someone who enforces amatonormative assimilation, reinforces romantic-love structure supremacy, or dynamicize natalist formation (compulsory monogamism nationalism).

Lesbian: sapphic with same-gender attraction or in a same-gender relationship; a female individual experiencing same-sex attraction; trixamoric lilaen (suptilic primlunic folk exclusively attracted to binary women); a woman-loving woman (WLW); a queeredly oriented woman (WLQ) or queer-loving woman (QLW); trixian (gai/gay trixic) or gae/QAI fiaspec folkette; fingender or nomingender folx loving fingender or non-mingender folx (FLF, NMLF, NMLNM, or FLNM); she/her or they/she person attracted to she/her or she/they people

TF is this, lesbian is a woman loving a woman, wtf is “non men”

xcus m. is the sentence “non men” in the chatroom with us right now?

themogaidragon:

Polymonoflux

Polymonoflux (poly mono flux)- When you fluctuate between being polyamorous and monoamorous.

Flag design by funCatty

Term coined by funCatty and Pride-Flags on Deviantart.

beyond-mogai-pride-flags:

Sapphic Himedanshi Pride Flag

8 stripes of purple, lighter purple, white, light yellow, soft orange, pink, red, and darker redALT

Himedanshi (姫男子, “princess boy”): a slang term for male fans of yuri media or otherwise enjoy any media works or fanworks with romantic relationships between women; himejin man.
Sapphic: a term for woman-loving queer individuals (WLQ) or queer attraction to women (QLW); an umbrella term for those who are women or woman-aligned attracted to women or woman-aligned folks (WLW/NBLW/NLW/WLN/WLNB).

This flag can be used in any way for whatever reason. It includes sapphix who reclaim himedanshi and multigender folks who feel described by these terms, for example. Himefudanshi (fuhimedanshi).

Gender Re-/Debinarized Flags

arco-pluris:

Gender Rebinarized Pride Flag

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Gender Rebinarization/Rebinarisation: indicating someone’s gender experience is rebinarised, otherwise their gender is embedded into binary again, so rebinary enby.

Gender Debinarized Pride Flag

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Gender Debinarization/Debinarisation: the quality of being unleashed from gender binary or having a gender experience that is debinarised, so debinary enby. The reversal way of rebinarie.

These pride flags are meant to represent people whose gender (identity &/or expression) is consensually associated with binary &/or not. Someone could be debinarized and rebinarized at the same time.

just curious: are neogirl and neoboy considered nontrinary?

are they nonbinary in a binary system? if so, and the genders from such binary system are identical to two of the gendernesses within trinary system, then I’d say so.

typically it depends on if they are seen as nonbinary primarily/originally. does that make sense?

in my pov, neobinarities are philosophal.

I have facebook texts that talk about my viewpoints

another point is: neomulher (roughly neowoman) means trans woman in Brazil, a humorous term by Jo Soares.

beyond-mogai-pride-flags:

Pir Pride Flag

[ ID: A flag with five horizontal stripes, the first and last stripes being thinner and the second and fourth stripes being thicker, in the following colors: light pink, hot pink, purple, dark indigo and orange. /End ID ]ALT

Pir: a misspelling of bi, specially in Brazilian Portuguese. It can be a reclaimed slang term, as it’s seen as a shorthand of piranha/piriguete or biscate (slutty/thot/hooker/bitch/hoe). Alts: pi, pyr.

For context, the term comes from a meme (see below) and the flag is a self-parody.

I believe this has been around the interwebs since… before 2013? idk

leptrois:

Null numbers theory

{pt.: Null numbers theory}

Correct me if this doesn’t yet.

Null is typically zero, which is the neutral value. It’s distinguished from empty sets sometimes. Analogously, 0≠∅.

But what about complex numbers? What about adimensional places. Are they extranull (extrinull/externull)? Supranull (suprinull or supernull) means positive null, meaning either (0, +) or (+, 0). Or above null, meaning there’s more than 2 dimensions to consider. Exonull (exinull) would be null in dimensions that aren’t fathomable, I imagine. Ultranull (ulternull/ultrinull) would be an extreme null, so an ambivalently or omnivalently infinite junction (infininull). And transnull (enantionull)? Transfinite, for example, would imply it’s not in infinidimensional planes nor in finidimensional places (e.g. oligodimensional, multidimensional, unidimensional, adimensional, semidimensional, semitridimensional, etc.). So it’s technically phantasmal or phantasmagorical I’d technically say, because it’s related to speculative or imprecise prediction in statistics, like uncountable indeterminacy (radical or classical), surreal/unreal/irreal/areal mensuration or unlimited endlessliness. Like, this nullity is neither existent or inexistent.

Now antinull: it’s a miscellaneous yet present number. Things it can be: absolutely existent; different from zero; possible or precise; valid or defined. And hypernull would be almost null, and hyponull would be scarcely null. Allonull is a frequentistically distinct nullity. Non-null is a pseudo-random number that is not null. But anull would change depending on the context, since it’s absence of null in some way. And finally, extranull is outside a certain dimension.

leptrois:

-raleous/-rleous/-aleous (suffixes) or parallelous/paralelous (adjectives)

Definition: a modifier expressing a certain gender is equally distant from one another at all points

PT. Definition: a modifier expressing a certain gender is equally distant from one another at all points.

  • Antiparallel equivalent: -tileous (antiparalelous/antiparallelous)

-pencular (suffix) or pendriclear (adjective)

Definition: a modifier expressing a certain gender is perpendicular (orthogonal/transversal) to another.

PT. Definition: a modifier expressing a certain gender is perpendicular (orthogonal/transversal) to another.

Usage examples: my gender is pendriclear; I’m feeling parallelous today; boypencular, girlpencular, neupencular; maveriquerleous, girlaleous, maleraleous.

These are all up to the user’s interpretation. What it means to have an orthogonal gender is descriptively figurative. They could be used in the same way as antigender while not technically that (unless the user wants it to be).

It could also be a gender replication too (such as minigender without the size-specific part).

Comment: the parallelous suffix for aporagender could be inconsistent, but the more harmonious to the user, the better, so I can see them choosing aporarleous or aporaraleous over aporaleous because of apogender implication. However, I think they are allowed to pick what’s best for them if it fits.

beyond-mogai-pride-flags:

White Stripe Asexual Pride Flag

[ID: A flag with five horizontal stripes, the first and last of which are thinner. In order, they are gray, white, dark purple, white, and gray. /End ID.]ALT

White Stripe Asexual: an umbrella term for people within asexual community that is not necessarily asexual, although they may or may not be. Including questioning, traumatized, aromantics (that wish to be included), unlabeled, fluid/abro people, asexual people’s partners who are celibatary, etc.

They aren’t usually represented by grey/partial or black/null areas. It’s the counterpart of black stripe asexual.

We need stacy to incel ftm flag and incel to stacy mtf pride flags

theflaggerrrr:

“ Noirloy (top) & Noyirl (bottom) ”

Noirloy (no-iur-loy) – A gender related to being a man, a woman and agender, but the genderlessness completely erases ones womanhood, but it’s still there in a way or another.

Noyirl (No-e-iur) – A gender related to being a man, a woman and agender, but the genderlessness completely erases ones manhood, but it’s still there in a way or another.

[ID: A transparent image that says “Willy holds no DNI, but is not afraid to block.” with a picture of the account’s mascot (an orange-blue fox toy), who’s upside down.]

theflaggerrrr:

“ Gendergendergender… / Gender… ”

A multigender label for those whose multigender identity feels like many genders, but these genders aren’t specified as anything, thus they are just ‘genders’.

[ID: A transparent image that says “Willy holds no DNI, but is not afraid to block.” with a picture of the account’s mascot (an orange-blue fox toy), who’s upside down.]

nightsteppy:

vamoosean: a gender for when part or all of your gender experience is just walking away. it can be related to hatergender or autigender, but does not have to be. more than anything it is a gender where you just say “fuck it, bye.”

(vamoose + -ean [variant of -an])

requested by a friend! the flag was based on @dasharez0ne‘s classic “JUST WALK OUT” image (included under the cut)

[DNI IMAGE ID: DNI banner with text reading “DNI: transmed, anti-endo, exclu of good-faith IDs/pronouns, proship/anti-anti/etc, NSFW-themed blog”. The background of the banner is the diversity rainbow pride flag]

my coined terms tag | my created flags tag

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Me, awhile ago: behaviorally fraysexuals are also oppressed

Also me, now: there’s structural fraynormativity in some level in some societies, sometimes enforced more depending on the culture, however, being fray shouldn’t be admitted, according to the present normativity

cookiejarids:

storyshift-mogai:

Userboxes!

this user is radiomogais #1 supporter! | this user is radiomogais #1 fan!

free to use anywhere, credit is appreciated but not necessary! ❤

@radiomogai, @rabidbatboy !

[ID: a user box with a black outline and white body, the image is @radiomogai’s profile picture, which is a flag with 6 stripes, the colours from top to bottom are: grape purple, purple, cream white, teal, green, brown. The text reads: this user is radiomogai’s #1 supporter! End ID]

[ID: a user box with a black outline and white body, the image is @radiomogai’s profile picture, which is a flag with 6 stripes, the colours from top to bottom are: grape purple, purple, cream white, teal, green, brown. The text reads: this user is radiomogai’s #1 fan! End ID]

beyond-mogai-pride-flags:

Murantic Pride Flag

[Image description: A flag bisected diagonally. The upper/left portion is black, with the constellation symbol for Quadrans Muralis in white. The lower/right portion has five stripes colored pink, light red, white, yellow, and light green. End ID]

Murantic: Feeling/being removed from sex, gender, and orientation, as these concepts do not apply to you, but without necessarily being devoid of them. A combination of vacugender and coordinate terms for sex and orientation.

Using the symbol for the former constellation Quadrans Muralis is meant to convey a sense of removal, as mural quadrants were used for measuring the movement of celestial bodies away from a marked point.

Term created 2025-01-31, meaning suggested by Mod AP.

theflaggerrrr:

“ Integender ” (Not to be confused with intergender!)

A gender system that’s based off integers and integers scales.

Note: this probably doesn’t make sense, but it does in my head.

Weird little graphic I made explaining how this works:

Agender = Zero

Nonbinary = -1 to -49 or 1 to 49

+100(-100) / -100(+100) = Androgyne (Man + Woman)

Man = -100

Man-aligned = -51 and below

Demiboy = -50

Woman = 100

Woman-aligned = 51

Demigirl = 50

Hypergirl/boy = -/+101 (and above/below)

Xenine / Xenogender = Negative Infinite

Pangender = Infinite

Addition = Multigender (eg. 50 + (-50) = Demigirlboy)

There are more genders in between those.

Note 2: TSH♀ came up with this idea during math class. Do you think ♀ locked in too hard?

Note 3: you’re a nerd if you use this. (silly)

[ID: A transparent image that says “Willy holds no DNI, but is not afraid to block.” with a picture of the account’s mascot (an orange-blue fox toy), who’s upside down.]

idwl:

diasomnia’s housewarden bestows upon you…

a flag with seven stripes. the colors, from top to bottom, are black, red, dark red, green, dark green, violet, and dark violet. in the top left corner, there is a white square.ALT
a flag with seven stripes. the colors, from top to bottom, are black, bright red, bright orange, bright yellow, bright green, bright teal, and bright blue-purple. in the top left corner, there is a white circle.ALT
a flag with seven stripes. the colors, from top to bottom, are dark grey, bright red, bright orange, light desaturated yellow, desaturated bluish green, light desaturated blue, and desaturated blue. in the top left corner, there is a white four-pointed star.ALT
a flag with seven stripes. the colors, from top to bottom, are dark grey, red, orange, bright yellow, bright green, teal, and blue-purple. in the top left corner, there is a white circle and a white four-pointed star.ALT
a flag with seven stripes. the colors, from top to bottom, are black, dark red, dark orange, dark yellow, dark green, desaturated dark blue, and desaturated dark blue-purple. in the top left corner, there is a white square, white circle, and a white four-pointed star.ALT
a flag with seven stripes. the colors, from top to bottom, are black, dark red, dark orange, dark yellow, dark green, dark teal, and dark blue-purple. in the top left corner, there is a white square and a white circle.ALT

୨୧ coiner flags

[pt: coiner flags /end pt]

flags for different types of coiners! in order of left to right, the flags are for: liom coiners, mogai coiners, qai coiners, moqai coiners, liomoqai coiners, and liomogai coiners. since the flags are kind of similar, especially the last three, i used shapes to help add differentiation.

more will be coming soon; see this post for what i’ll be making!

flags by us!

  • please do not repost our creations, or add them to any wikis. our terms and flags can be used by everyone!

taglist: [ @radiomogai, @noxwithoutstars, @daybreakthing ]

did you coin nontrinary?https://leptrois.tumblr.com/post/652080651903909888/trinary-timeline I found a lot of links here crediting you.I’m a bit confused on it’s definition though. I think of nontrinary as just the trinary version of nonbinary, so it would include atrinary, midtrinary, anything that isn’t strictly one trinary gender all the time (and any other specification that are applied to nonbinary).but the definitions linked don’t seem to match, like they seem more narrow.so if I’m looking to credit a source for nontrinary, do I credit one of those links even though I use a different definition? And I’m not sure which one to credit, as the definition keeps changing.also, what does “some people can describe nonternary as abinary with gender alignment” mean?

2 disclaimers:

  1. Maybe I worded the definitions not adequately as I wanted. Mainly because I didn’t put so much effort in describing them meticulously or because my English was bad, or because I had learning issues, such as dyslexia, combined with the fact that I probably had a manic episode (plus probably daydreaming, psychosis, dissociation, hallucinations, schizophasia, and glossolalia) while coining them. Honestly, I’m involved in all these terminologies, be it anonymously or sideblogs. Except some, such as anontrinary (by mogai-mom).
  2. I like scales, I’m into hard sciences. So I have my own PoVs of everything, I like exogenous analogies and transdisciplinarity, and the urge to expand concepts and conlanging. Sometimes, in these situations, I divagate, that’s when I’m explaining things you know. @gender-archival even said I recoined my own terms because of my “contradictory explanations” and I was using another pseudonym.

Answering directly:

Yes, as far as I can tell, I was bold to coin it independently. Maybe someone else used it hypothetically somewhere else, I couldn’t be against this hypothetical use of it hypothetically. Honestly, it feels like I patented a gender when in fact it was always able to be defined in other ways that people would get what I meant, by analogy with nonbinary. So, use one of those links. BUT, when I coined non(qua)ternary, I technically coined nonternary as a potential synonym of nonquaternary (nonquadnary/nonquadrinary). That’s because androgyne could be its own gender. Like the fourth gender wouldn’t be hierarchically distinct from the third you know.

Last answer: that definition was suggested by @mogai-ringo, I think. Stereotypically, having an alignment is interpreted as being gendered or midbinarily gendered, and being neutrally aligned means that you’re unaligned or nonaligned. If you think about it, it’s nonsensical, but that’s how some people see it biasedly. You can wait for her to explain about her PoV, maybe it would be better, because right now I’m not sane to guess so much something that I forgot exactly what I felt when using this sentence. If it helps (probably not), I was this anon. What will really help you is that I agree with everything said here. I like when people mitigate or evaluate my terms too, and a lot of the time it’s accurate, except when they try to be narrower than me most times.

TL;DR yes I coined; it’s not narrow and it should follow the nonbinary definition just replacing binary with trinary.

Comments

Btw, I don’t mind other people semioticizing my terms. I actually like the idea of self-interpretation, philosophizing, and using them as they please. I don’t mind prosifications. In this aspect, I deliberate a lot.

I noticed the term nontrinary was a meme back in 2021 or around. Like you know it’s not a niched protologism anymore when big pages and high profile users start to react to it. And atrinary is nichedly popular I’d say, there are even a lot of backlash, commotion, and aftermath -trinary terms received. But I wasn’t the first one to allude to the gender trinary and wikis make it clear now.

Important note

Something that I intentionally omitted when posting the second atrinary flag specifically is including the lack of full genderlessness (agenderness). Because then I interpreted that a- prefixed arities would always include agender (except anullary, but was that ever coined‽). That would be too late, except that I made some efforts in sideblogs to re-explain it and I’m not sure if that perspective caught on. Huh, you see wikis saying “not necessarily”, almost like because neutrality and neutrois are seen as agenderedness. It’s up for interpretation at this point. This I must confess that I recoined my own term.

Sobre o termo lesboyVi vc citou uma pĂĄgina filipina em relação ao uso antigo de lesboy. PorĂŠm encontrei usos mais antigoshttps://x.com/selsellina/status/82333209928540160 (2011, ĂŠ possĂ­vel encontrar vĂĄrias publicaçþes em indonĂŠsio, alĂŠm da fonte de uma pĂĄgina filipina presente no verbete da orientando)https://www.instagram.com/p/BTSQzIzgDVV (esse microblog do insta usou muito essa hashtag em 2017, confira vĂĄrias outras postagens em #lesboy)https://www.instagram.com/p/BILh5oBh-Hc (2016, br)E esse termo jĂĄ existia em inglĂŞs antes de eu postar a bandeira em 2020, slangdefine, por exemplo, jĂĄ possuĂ­a entrada atĂŠ onde sei, embora nĂŁo haja arquivaçþes anteriores a 2022 daquilo.

orientandoorg:

Oi, obrigade por fornecer estas fontes! Elas foram publicadas agora pouco.

Para facilitar o acesso a informaçþes do tipo, peço que utilize ao invÊs da função de mensagens/perguntas daqui o Tópico geral para correçþes e adiçþes.

alĂŠm da fonte de uma pĂĄgina filipina presente no verbete da orientando

Se você encontrou alguma postagem mais antiga de tal pågina mencionando o termo, eu apreciaria um link (caso você faça questão dessa informação ser adicionada), porque lembro de ter usado 2019 como ponto de partida especificamente porque vi alguns dos anos anteriores e a palavra não parecia aparecer neles.

E esse termo jĂĄ existia em inglĂŞs antes de eu postar a bandeira em 2020

A pĂĄgina nĂŁo disse que vocĂŞ cunhou o termo, nem de forma “mais definida”. SĂł associa a postagem em BMPF com a bandeira. O comentĂĄrio sobre o termo nĂŁo ter sido muito usado antes da bandeira tem mais a ver com minha experiĂŞncia com o termo: nunca vi ele sendo usado ou discutido antes de 2020. Dando mais uma pesquisada rĂĄpida sĂł pra confirmar melhor essa questĂŁo, o carrd lesboys ou surgiu ou sĂł começou a ser arquivado a partir de 2021, e, pesquisando por lesboy no Reddit, a comunidade pĂşblica mais antiga parece ser de 2023.

…Eu nem tenho certeza se o uso do termo lesboy nessas postagens de pessoas do sul da Ásia ĂŠ coerente com o uso do termo nas AmĂŠricas ou se o termo ĂŠ usado de forma diferente, e tambĂŠm nĂŁo tenho conhecimento cultural e linguĂ­stico o suficiente para tentar pesquisar qual a origem do termo por lĂĄ e se tais diferenças existem.

slangdefine, por exemplo, jĂĄ possuĂ­a entrada atĂŠ onde sei

Olhei as definiçþes em questão e elas não são relacionadas a como o termo Ê usado no Orientando ou em comunidades heterodissidentes atuais de forma geral.

É que eu perdi acesso ao meu pc, daĂ­ nĂŁo soube fazer login mais na orientando pra postar no tĂłpico, mas era bom eu postar por aqui para abordar mais autenticamente em relação a isso. Foi mais uma questĂŁo de pĂłs-confirmação, talvez eu tenha estranhado a frase de registros anteriores da bandeira um tantinho. Esse Ăşltimo link de insta dĂĄ a entender que talvez jĂĄ era usado num sentido cusper? O monema (significado) existia mesmo sem o lexema (seja por aglutinação ou sintagma) ser consagrado pela comunidade [que antes era uma teoria marginal (fringe), como os termos “guydyke” e “male lesbian”, que eram ou ainda sĂŁo controversos na comunidade]!

Acho que me expressei mal ali. Talvez por hipercorreção. Alguns links em filipino:

Aqui diz que tomboy Ê sinônimo de lÊsbica em tagalo. Serå que tem conotação de butch?

Esta fonte afirma que tomboi Ê um termo para designar masculinas em indonÊsio. Não sei se då para afirmar que a aglutinação seria o que seria negar a hipótese de que seria apenas ume lÊsbic masc.

E o que explicar quanto a brasileires usando a hashtag? Deve ser apenas algo cognoscĂ­vel ou reconhecibilidade, invencionice fĂĄcil.

Nesse aspecto poder-se-ia dizer que eu recunhei expandindo o conceito. Entretanto, eu sequer explicitamente usei o termo homem lÊsbico na cunhagem. Juro que estranhei todo o reboliço e reviravoltas na Êpoca da wiki defender o termo. Vou deixar dois links que explicam um pouco a controvÊrsia (obs.: os subsequentes ao primeiro possuem viÊs envenenado ou inflamado):

Mas, para mim, tudo bem. Eu aprendo a absorver conceitos em vez de deixĂĄ-los latentes no imaginĂĄrio.

A mogai miraheze tem uma breve histĂłria de lesboy mencionando lesboi, saphboy, e outras bandeiras que eu fiz anĂĄlogas.

radiomogai:

Please remember those in the MOGAI community who are not coiners. There is not enough appreciation for archivists, requesters, collectors, icon-makers, lurkers, accessibility blogs, everyone else. I believe that part of why there is so much pressure on coiners to coin consistently is because there is little value placed on any other activities within the community.

lgbtqflags:

Transmasc

transmasc(uline)- a masculine transgender person, someone transitioning to a masculine gender or presentation

flag created by: @gender-canvasser

date: March 15, 2023

lgbtqflags:

Transfem

transfem(inine)- a feminine transgender person, someone who is/has transitioned to a feminine gender or presentation

flag created by: @gender-canvasser

date: March 23, 2023

lgbtqflags:

Cusper

cusper- being on the cusp of two(or more) genders, sexualities, or terms

flag by: cusperwiki (Tumblr, deactivated)

date: 06.25.2020 (not verified)

idwl:

i think this is something that needs discussing

some of you act way too fucking entitled to coiners. or just, fucking ignorant towards their boundaries. and it’s gotta fucking stop.

we’re not gods, we’re not better than you, we’re not these untouchable famous beings, we’re not factory workers, we’re not anything but random guys you barely know. yeah, it’s cool that some of us can bring comfort and happiness to you guys. and for some of us, that’s our main goal. but for the rest of us, that’s just a (rather great and beautiful) side effect! a lot of us are doing this for ourselves!

we don’t owe you this happiness. we don’t owe you our creations, our time, our dedication.

coining is a hobby. it’s not our fucking jobs. most of us are just fucking around in our free time, or putting a label to our experiences. we’re not fucking paid for this, this is a thing we do for free. this is for fun. a lot of us also have school or jobs. not to mention, a huge chunk of this community is disabled— whether physically, or mentally. a lot of us can’t just pump out flag after flag. just because we enjoy coining doesn’t mean we’re gonna be your 24/7 readily available flag/term maker

coiners are people. we are people. we are human beings with wiggly fingers and stomachs and squishy faces, just like you. we have feelings and emotions and we cry and laugh and hit things. we all have human bodies. we all have abilities and limits.

please stop getting impatient with us. please stop expecting that we make things for you. please stop thinking we owe you things. stop requesting the same thing from multiple coiners. please stop being asses just because we didnt get your Oh So Important flag made in time, one you couldve made yourself. please check and respect our boundaries.

most importantly, please treat us like people

io-archival:

:

Catfaggender / Fagcatgender

Catfaggender / Fagcatgender – A xenogender related to cats and being a faggot.

[PT: Catfaggender / Fagcatgender /end pT]

io-archival:

:

Necroduskanin

Necroduskanin – A xenogender related to Dusk Mane Necrozama from the PokĂŠmon series.

[PT: Necroduskanin /end PT]

beyond-mogai-pride-flags:

Trandrogyne/Transdrogyne Pride Flag

Trandrogyne (trangi)/transdrogyne (transgi): describing a transversed androgyne; feeling your gender androgyny is tied to transverseness/transversality; or relatively mixing a travestic androgynous gender experience (transvestic in the sense that your lingender identity is a result of transversion).

Similar to transdrogynous and genderpunk. Mixing tra- with androgyne.

-ap

[Image: a 7-striped horizontal flag: dark teal, purple, light pink, white, light pink, purple, dark teal]

beyond-mogai-pride-flags:

TLT/T4T Pride Flag

image

TLT (trans loving trans): a trans person attracted to trans people, primarily or exclusively; a transcentered relationship (between trans people) or transgender individuals who celebrates transgender love.

-Kau

bisexual-cat:

☆ TRIXILLEAN & SAPPHORIC ☆

Trixillean – for when you are both trixic and achillean (nblw & mlm)

Sapphoric – for when you are both sapphic and toric (wlw & nblm)

───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─────

gendergasm:

BUTCH4MASC / MASC4BUTCH

a flag with 7 horizontal stripes. the colors in order are dark plum, ultraviolet purple, slightly dark cyan, light tan, teal, dark blue, and dark purple. ALT

butch4masc / masc4butch — pretty self explanatory; this flag is for butches who have a preference for mascs, regardless of it they also identify as butch or not ! can also be interpreted in reverse as mascs with a preference for butches

bunnymollyboo:

P4G ~ Pink 4 Green, pinkgender/pink in nature people who prefer greengender/green in nature people. Can also be used to describe a relationship between a pinkgender and greengender person

shk0lstun-flagz:

Trans gay/lesbian flags

⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘

Trans Gay

Trans gaylm/cinthean

A person under the trans umbrella who is gay/queerly attracted to men and is exclusively attracted to men. (specific nonbinaries might also be included)

⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘

Trans Lesbian

Transbian

A person under the trans umbrella who is lesbian/queerly attracted to women and is exclusively attracted to women. (specific nonbinaries might also be included)

santoffetti:

“No que tange ao binômio espaço/tempo, os longos e habituais transcursos da história, bem como a geografia do planeta são submetidos à lógica da instantaneidade: desaparecem. Tudo se dobra à tutela da imediatez. Ao mesmo tempo que o planeta é sacudido pela desterritorialização, ele se reterritorializa na e através das redes. No compasso da “temporalização” do espaço urbano efetuada pelo tempo real da velocidade da luz, processa-se também a socioespacialização do tempo na forma da imagem mediática da tela como novo contexto da atuação humana.”

— O mal-estar da teoria: a condição da crítica na sociedade tecnológica atual

Crítica do binômio “sexo/gênero”

Texto de Caia Coelho (2016)

Crítica do binômio “sexo/gênero”

Ao contrário do que se costuma pensar, criticar o binômio “sexo/gênero” não é abandonar o reconhecimento do genital como algo importante para a designação cis-normativa, para o controle da reprodução e para a produção da heterossexualidade diádica. Na verdade, é necessário considerar tais elementos para estabelecer uma crítica ao conhecimento biológico dessa parte do corpo, que obviamente não foi escolhida aleatoriamente e antecipa o gênero da sua própria historicidade, passando a ser considerado natural não só enquanto figuração anatômica, mas enquanto o eixo discursivo do cis-sexismo. Isso toma uma proporção tão grande que pessoas intersexo recém-nascidas sofrem, compulsoriamente, cirurgias para adequar a genitália a vaginas e pênis, uma prática violenta contra os Direitos Humanos.

Istvan Mesaros, em o Poder da Ideologia, revela como a ciência, com seus próprios critérios, procura invalidar a legitimidade da crítica: “aqueles que aceitam tacitamente a ideologia dominante como a estrutura objetiva do discurso ‘racional’ e ‘erudito’ rejeitam como ilegítimas todas as tentativas de identificar as suposições ocultas e valores implícitos com que está comprometida a ordem dominante. Assim, em nome da “objetividade” e da “ciência”, têm de desqualificar o uso de algumas categorias essenciais ao pensamento crítico. Reconhecer a legitimidade de tais categorias significaria consentir no exame das próprias suposições aceitas como verdadeiras, em conjunto com as conclusões convenientes que podem ser – e efetivamente são – extraídas dela”.

Se reconhecemos o “sexo” enquanto uma forma de saber sobre o corpo historicamente permeada e politicamente intencionada, torna-se de muito apoio que os conhecimentos biológicos mostrem uma diversidade que extrapole certas barreiras, divergências e contradições da própria literatura biomédica a respeito dos genitais. Quando se desautoriza o entendimento “oficial do sexo”, ou melhor, quando se desautoriza tal entendimento no campo da própria biologia, isso transpõe algumas barreiras entre as áreas interessadas em pesquisar o gênero e as áreas interessadas em pesquisar o corpo. Nessa altura, também acontece um hibridismo maior na biomedicina que, ao encarar outras possibilidades anatômicas além da diádica, nos permite pensar por que até então apenas dois ‘sexos’ estavam sendo estudados.

Criticar o binômio “sexo/gênero” significa a tentativa de perceber as entrelinhas do discurso; perceber o que não foi dito, mas constitui o discurso; perceber a ideologia na “objetividade científica” e a permeabilidade dela na história. Para todas as populações trans, transexuais, transgêneros e travestis, o principal efeito do “sexo” enquanto natural e do gênero enquanto “construído” é que, para o corpo cis-gênero, haveria “harmonia” entre esses dois eixos de sustentação do corpo e, para nós, haveria o destino psiquiátrico da patologia, quando não o destino estigmatizante da simulação.

A primeira, e imatura, definição de “cis-generidade” registrada historicamente (1995) é feita por Carl Bujis, um homem trans, e quatro anos depois é descrita por Donna Lynn Mathews, uma mulher transexual, como o significante que assinala a compatibilidade entre a identidade, a apresentação e a morfologia física de alguém: “uma vez que definimos o gênero como as características comportamentais, culturais e psicológicas associadas a um sexo, cisgênero significa estar do mesmo lado das características comportamentais, culturais e psicológicas associadas a um sexo”.

Em sua genealogia da cisgêneridade, “O Cisgênero Existe”, Leila Dumaresq contextualiza historicamente e analisa a evolução do conceito. A respeito de Carl Bujis e Donna Lynn Lewis, a autora relembra que essa definição foi escrita “no século onde as pessoas trans impuseram-se como grupo social e político; E também é o século marcado pela patologização e um crescente interesse médico em nós. As marcas deste conflito aparecem na exigência de laudos e procedimentos médicos para termos a existência civil e jurídica reconhecida. Naquele momento ainda fazia sentido usar o jargão biomédico que trouxe alguma aceitação social e que definia o trans para definir o cis. Ingenuamente, as pessoas trans quiseram expressar alteridade nos mesmos termos usados para nos descrever. Logo ficou evidente que isso não era possível e que o jogo biomédico não foi feito para permitir a expressão trans”.

Dessa forma, a não ser que você esteja disputando o conceito de sexo dentro do departamento de biologia ou medicina, ou seja, apontando incoerências da própria bibliografia, não adianta usar outras palavras, como se elas fossem mais ou menos isentas ideologicamente, pois pertencem ao mesmo vocabulário biomédico. A definição desses termos está comprometida com o diadismo e com o cis-sexismo. Por isso, dizer que “XY” é biológico e a associação disso ao universo masculino é “social”, embora tenha bastante potencial didático, é apenas eufemístico. Para não virar um problema linguístico, a nossa crítica precisa desautorizar a pretensa “universalidade” da ciência; precisa falar desses termos como garantias da cis-normatividade e da heterossexualidade, do diadismo e do controle reprodutivo; precisa localizar a utilidade e o controle desses conceitos; precisa saber que, realmente, o conhecimento sobre o corpo não é o corpo em si.

hello! im new to your blog and really interested in the things that you post! i want to know if you are aware of nise da silveira and the movimento anti manicomial. nise da silveira revolutionized psychiatry in brazil during the 40s-50s when she created the museu de imagens do inconsciente and casa das palmeiras, the later being an outpatient clinic for formerly institutionalized people. the movimento anti manicomial is a movement against psychiatric hospitals. anyway, i think you would like to research both of these things!!

trans-axolotl:

okay answering this ask so late but YES the movimento anti manicomial is so important to me and i think is honestly one of the biggest and most successful examples of like, building radical alternatives to psychiatry. ik it’s defintely not perfect and there’s still many problems with institutionalization in Brazil today, but it’s still such important work and history. i was just watching a documentary about it a couple months ago–i should see if i can find a public version of it to share.

it would absolutely be amazing to visit the museu de imagens do inconsciente in person someday, i’ve looked through the art on the website but would love to visit and connect with people there.

i actually have an acquaintance that’s working on getting a lot of writing from the movimento anti manicomial translated into English and i’m really excited to keep reading and learning more!!

anyway defintely recommend people looking into nise da silveira, franco basaglia and the trieste movement, and bethel house in Japan to learn more about successful examples of deinstitutionalization.

Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, and Revolt by Sasha Warren is a great book that gives a really good overview of a lot of radical movements within psychiatry and antipsychiatry, and talks about Nise da Silveria, Trieste, and just so much psychiatry history/analysis of how psychiatry functions.

thanks so much for the ask, i absolutely LOVE getting to talk with other people about mad liberationist movements like this one 🙂

clowncaraz-journal:

Zoanship

A type of relationship characterized by lifelasting or lifelong primal or feral connection to someone.

Expressions of said relationship are not romantic, sexual, platonic, queerplatonic, or alterous, but is deeply physical and intimate. It may be experienced as caring and being cared for by a pack member in ways that friends wouldn’t.

May also be represented by primal kinks, BDSM, kink at pride, animal roleplay (pup play, pony play, etc,) non-sexual nudity and exposure.

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@radiomogai

@beyond-mogai-pride-flags

fakeosphere:

aetherlift:

fakeosphere:

A North Vietnamese Army officer laughs at the peace symbol necklace of a captured American soldier, 1973

i dont think he was laughing, i think he was smiling.

there was like a bottom-up ceasefire system where american soldiers would display peace symbols advertising their intention to ignore orders and not fire at north vietnamese soldiers unless fired upon first, and north vietnamese soldiers were under orders to do the same if they encountered groups of american soldiers doing this, and they actively worked to distribute information among american soldiers advertising this policy.

see this twitter thread for more info:

Actually really cool thank you

lecialucille:

🎀🌻☘️ねこねこねこねこねこねこねこねこ🎀🌻☘️

“Non-binary” is not a sex. Call yourself altersex, non-binary refers to gender.

your-bigender-big-brother:

My sex is of a nonbinary quality (nonbinarine.) My gender is the same. It hurts no one to refer to myself in this way.

Altersex refers to an actual want for specific genitals. That’s not at all what I’m referencing when I say my sex is nonbinary. “I am altersex” is not the same as “My sex is nonbinary.” Altersex is physical.

I shouldn’t have to use inaccurate language to refer to any aspect of my identity just because you decided nonbinary is a strict box and shouldn’t be used the way I use it.

My sex is also legally non-binary, my birth certificate explicitly uses those words, sex: non-binary.

People can have nonbinary pronouns, a nonbinary presentation, a nonbinary mind (psychologically nonbinary).

You can be skeletally or archaeologically nonbinary. It’s all about self conceptualization. Science made up a lot of terms to classify nature, it’s a social and philosophal construct. It’s all a case of linguistics.

And let stupefy anon: enbysex was coined before altersex.

scrumptious-human:

boxofroxxie:

Had some extra time before I left!

TW: Minor blood

COCSA Trauma Survivor Pride Flags for @anarchistspolygon. Sorry that there are so many, I made a few flag variants because I was messing around and I wanted to make sure you got what you wanted/needed! Just in case.

I didn’t realized I’d be comforted by this flags existence, it makes me feel seen.

ryanyflags:

Is there a difference between pangender nonbinary/abinary/etc. and pannonbinary/panabinary/etc. ? I’ve always only used the first example, but looking into the possible names of these terms, I’ve come upon the second example. Should I list them as synonyms on my neocities?

Pangender abinary (afaik, it doesn’t have a formal definition yet):

  • Panabinary
  • Pangender leaning abinary or abinary leaning pangender
  • Bigender of pangender and abinary
  • Demipangender abinary, demiabinary pangender, or demipangender demiabinary
  • A pangender individual who experiences at least one abinary gender
  • Those who are using abinary and/or pangender as an experience tied to their pronoun, presentation, alignment, element, energy, aura, astral percentage, and other things.

Pangender nonbinary would include pangendres using nby as umbrella term or emphasize their enbitude, bibinary pannonbinary and demibinary deminonbinary pangendred folx, maginonbinary pixelbinary

Anyway, I don’t know if it has a concrete meaning or was consistently signified/conceptualized by someone else, just like ‘agender x’ system or nonbinary (wo)man. @ryany

autism-coded:

intervex:

Even more autism pride flag options

After my latest autistic pride flag post, @pride-cat messaged me suggesting a mashup of the red-orange-yellow-lime-green (ROYLG) flag with the Autistic Pride Day logo. Here’s what I came up with:

Five concentric infinity symbols of green, lime, yellow, orange, and red. They're on the dark grey background from the disability pride flag.ALT
Same as before but white background.ALT
Seven concentric infinity symbols of dark grey, red, yellow, white, blue, green, dark grey. They are the colours from the disability pride flag. The background is plain white.ALT

The top one uses the grey from the disability pride flag and the colours from the ROYLG flag. Bottom left uses a white background like the neurodiversity flag. Bottom right uses disability pride colours.

(At pride-cat’s suggestion, I tried putting the APD logo on the ROYLG flag but felt like it blended into the background in a way I found unsatisfying 🙁 – you can see pride-cat’s version here.)

@posting-stuffies tagged me about @ryanyflags’s gold infinity icons, so here are two flags putting the gold infinity first on a plain white background then on the grey background:

Gold infinity loop on plain white background.ALT
Gold infinity loop on plain dark grey background.ALT

While on the idea of “plain symbol for autism on a white background” I figured I’d make use of the aufinity symbol by @palpablenotion:

Stylized A to look like an infinity symbol known as the aufinity symbol. It's on a plain white background.ALT
Stylized A to look like an infinity symbol known as the aufinity symbol. It's on a gold background with green and red on the corners.ALT
Same as before but now there's a rainbow infinity.ALT

And then finally, this post by @spaghettimakesflags and this post by @themogaidragon inspired some more flag ideas that led to:

Seven stripe flag of dark blue, teal, chartreuse, white, chratreuse, teal, dark blue. In the middle is a white aufinity in a white bubble.ALT
Same as before but aufinity is replaced with rainbow infinity.ALT
Same as before but now it's the nautilus symbol.ALT
Now the nautilus symbol has the green lime yellow orange red background.ALT
The rainbow infinity on the ROYLG backgroundALT
And now the gold infinity on the ROYLG background.ALT

These are all free to use and remix! I hope this helps for moving people away from autistic flags that have Metis style infinity symbols in them (such as the original ROYLG design). 🧡

Code used to generate flag combinations is on github. SVGs here.

In the near future I’m thinking of putting out a survey of autistic flag options. I’m assembling a list of options here, so if you know of any autistic flag designs that don’t use a solid white infinity that aren’t in the document please let me know! 🧡

Tagging for archival: @radiomogai @liom-archive @disabilityflagsarchive @disabilitypride

oh wow, these are AMAZING! i have been FED! thank you for your service! 🫡 if you put out that survey, don’t hesitate to tag me and i’ll totally participate.

anyway, since you brought up the aufinity symbol, here is probably a great place to mention that i had been using that + your nautilus design (as well as “AuTiSTiC” simply written out in the letters’ designated colors) as potential tattoo ideas which i’d share the list of on a reddit post but the mods of that sub removed it for unknown reasons?, since i absolutely want to get something that highlights my autistic identity and the sheer number of options is overwhelming ─ in a good way, of course. the point is, though, i turned the .png template into the ROYLG gradient as one of the options i might consider:

stylized capital letter 'A' to look like an infinity symbol known as the "aufinity" symbol, colored in a slanted ROYLG (red, orange, yellow, lime, green) gradient from top to bottom after the original designated flag. there is twice as much yellow in the middle as the other colors.ALT
stylized capital letter 'A' to look like an infinity symbol known as the "aufinity" symbol, colored in a slanted ROYLG (red, orange, yellow, lime, green) gradient from top to bottom after the original designated flagALT

it would have the same issue as the APD symbol on the background, but i don’t have any intention of slapping this over that; it’s meant to stand out on its own with a nod back to the flag. i’m not typically a huge fan of solid white or black bases just because it feels incomplete to me for some reason (like getting a transparent image off google but realizing it still has a background), but i’m aware that’s entirely just my perspective, and honestly i actually really like the rainbow symbol on it, at least better than on the ROYLG. i wish it existed as a unicode with its creativity working so well, along with the interlocked venus/neutral-ring/mars that bisexuality has.

i want to use every autism design you’ve ever made somehow and give them the recognition they deserve, it’s just all so exciting! ∞

caeliangel:

IMAGE ID. 3 rectangular flags with 7 stripes that are, in order: dark pink, dull redish orange, light orange, light pastel yellow, blue, violet, dark purple. END OF ID.

୨୧ • Transdian xenogender

Flag for transdian (trans veldian) inviduals who identify with xenogender(s) of any kind.

PT. Transdian xenogender. Flag for transdian (trans veldian) inviduals who identify with xenogender(s) of any kind. END OF PT.

ryanyflags:

ryanyflags:

ryanyflags:

Xenogender flag (symbol + outline). It has 7 equally sized horizontal stripes. From top to bottom, the colours are: cerise pink, light coral, apricot orange, canary yellow, sky blue, medium purple, and grape purple. In the middle is the iris astronomical symbol, a rainbow with a star inside it, coloured white. The symbol is outlined with a gradient of cerise pink, light coral, apricot orange, canary yellow, sky blue, medium purple, and grape purple, the same colours as the xenogender flag.ALT
Xenogender flag (symbol). It has 7 equally sized horizontal stripes. From top to bottom, the colours are: cerise pink, light coral, apricot orange, canary yellow, sky blue, medium purple, and grape purple. In the middle is the iris astronomical symbol, a rainbow with a star inside it, coloured white.ALT
Xenogender flag (plain). It has 7 equally sized horizontal stripes. From top to bottom, the colours are: cerise pink, light coral, apricot orange, canary yellow, sky blue, medium purple, and grape purple.ALT

xenogender (symbol + outline) ✦ (symbol) ✦ (plain)
[pt: xenogender (symbol plus outline), (symbol), (plain)]

A decorative divider. It's in the shape of a straight line, with a 4 pointed star in the center. The colours, from left to right, are a chunky horizontal gradient of cerise pink, light coral, apricot orange, canary yellow, sky blue, medium purple, and grape purple.ALT

Some xenogender flag edits :3

↓ References:
✦ xenogender coining (just an archive, I couldn’t find the original source)
✦ xenogender flag (by @pastelroswell / @variant-archive)

A decorative divider. It's in the shape of a straight line, with a 4 pointed star in the center. The colours, from left to right, are a chunky horizontal gradient of cerise pink, light coral, apricot orange, canary yellow, sky blue, medium purple, and grape purple.ALT

I just wanted to edit the colours a bit, and add a outline to improve contrast (and also because it looks pretty :). I’ve actually done something similar before with these xenogender gender combo flags.

A transparent image with the xenogender symbol in the middle, coloured white. The xenogender symbol is the iris astronomical symbol, a rainbow with a star inside it. The symbol is outlined with a gradient of cerise pink, light coral, apricot orange, canary yellow, sky blue, medium purple, and grape purple, the same colours as the xenogender flag.ALT
Xenogender symbol, coloured white. The xenogender symbol is the iris astronomical symbol, a rainbow with a star inside it. The symbol is outlined with a gradient of cerise pink, light coral, apricot orange, canary yellow, sky blue, medium purple, and grape purple, the same colours as the xenogender flag.ALT

@arco-pluris there wasn’t, I exported some though, so here you go 🙂

The first version has empty space, so it can be overlayed without worrying about centering/sizing. And the second is just the symbol, no empty space.

A transparent image with the xenogender symbol in the middle, coloured black. The xenogender symbol is the iris astronomical symbol, a rainbow with a star inside it. The symbol is outlined with a gradient of cerise pink, light coral, apricot orange, canary yellow, sky blue, medium purple, and grape purple, the same colours as the xenogender flag.ALT
Xenogender symbol, coloured black. The xenogender symbol is the iris astronomical symbol, a rainbow with a star inside it. The symbol is outlined with a gradient of cerise pink, light coral, apricot orange, canary yellow, sky blue, medium purple, and grape purple, the same colours as the xenogender flag.ALT

@arco-pluris here’s the black versions

ritalara:

ignitiondorks:

skullopendra:

gaydaphne:

cloudstreamer:

gayestcheese:

omarnorthtower:

stanford-pines:

okay so theres an episode of whats new scooby doo where the gang goes home on valentines day, and i guess the studio really wanted to avoid the implication that daphne and fred were sleeping together because daphne and velma live together and fred lives with shaggy and scooby 

but that attempt at avoiding anything risque backfired spectacularly because now it just seems like daphne and velma are a comfortably domestic couple and fred is trying to learn how to live with his boyfriends over excitable and really hungry great dane

It’s far cuter like this anyway.

OOOOOOOOOOOOH SNAP

CANON

i don’t have a source for this just a gut feeling, but doesn’t everyone in the gang call him “freddie” at some point?

which would imply that the entire gang is poly and dating

If any group in pop culture is poly, it’s definitely the errant kids from the 60s with a groovy hippie van

100% the Scooby gang is poly – with varying degree of romantic & sexual. Fred & Daphne are primaries, Thelma probably has othe partners outside of the pod, Shaggy is demi-romantic.

I must admit I feel reluctant and speechless about the term turigirl since its coining (turiagirl).

It’s mainly because of history and etymology, which is triggeringly intriguing to me.

pfaugh:

el-shab-hussein:

el-shab-hussein:

el-shab-hussein:

As a rule of thumb, don’t reblog donation posts or people asking for donations unless they’ve been vetted and reblogged by Palestinian bloggers. We usually go to lengths to verify this shit because we know scammers have been faking to get people to send them money, using the urgency of our genocide as bait.

It’s disgusting this is what we’re dealing with, but people are losing money because of some truly evil people out there.

Accounts don’t just randomly spring up on tumblr without gofundmes while asking for someone to help them create a campaign. Fuck out of here with that shit.

I’m also gonna stop listing the reasons why I recognize something is a scam. It’s becoming more and more clear there is 1 person behind this STRING of scams and they’re leaving less trails behind but it still reeks of them and their MO.

DO NOT TRUST ANY GOFUNDME OR REQUEST FOR CROWDFUNDING THAT PALESTINIAN BLOGGERS HAVEN’T VERIFIED.

At this point I’m fine receiving a bunch of inbox messages asking me to vet x y z so y’all can avoid this shit. But please have some critical thinking!

People are exploiting our situation.

Reblog this post.

Whether you wanna read the whole thing or not idc.

REBLOG IT.

The person this was about deleted the 4th or 5th scam account they made and are definitely gonna make a new one soon. I don’t want anybody falling for this anymore.

OP’s masterlist of vetted requests

every little bit helps.

shk0lstun-flagz:

Angled Aroace flags pt 2 :

Aceflux-Aro ⬇️

( Aromantic and Aceflux )

Aceflux-Greyro ⬇️

( Greyromantic and Aceflux )

Aroflux-Ace ⬇️

( Asexual and Aroflux )

Aroflux-Greyace ⬇️

( Greysexual and Aroflux )

Angled Aroace flags Pt 1 ( Link )

shk0lstun-flagz:

Other variants of the Demiaroace / Demiromantic / Demisexual Flags

Demiaroace : ⬇️

Demiromantic : ⬇️

Demisexual : ⬇️

shk0lstun-flagz:

Opalian

NBYMLM / NBYMLNBY Flag

– optional attraction label for gaylm and multisexual nonbinary men (demiboys, boyflux, etc). describes attraction towards men and nonbinary ppl

( alternative flag )

Torian / Torician

NBYLM / NBYLNBY Flag

( toric and enbian )

– optional attraction label for gaylm and multisexual nonbinaries. describes attraction towards nonbinaries and men

Both flags are similar purposely since the meanings are still kinda almost the same so… so are the flags lol

shk0lstun-flagz:

Enbyspec Flag

A flag that represents all nonbinary identities on the spectrum, kinda like the rainbow flag but for the nonbinary community specifically

shk0lstun-flagz:

shk0lstun-flagz:

shk0lstun-flagz:

I made a t4t (tlt) pride flag 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

flag is for for any trans people to use that have a t4t preference or are strictly t4t . It can be used by any trans person of any gender / sexuality, or it could be used as a orientation identity on its own 🙂

( did my own version of the flag since the the og creator of the flag was “proudly” panphobic or something and excluded demisexuality for some reason 💀 )

Multisexual flags but their T4T themed like this flag I made ⬆️

T4T Bisexual / Biromantic : ⬇️

T4T Pansexual / Panromantic : ⬇️

T4T Omnisexual / Omniromantic

T4T Polysexual / Polyromantic

wlw and mlm Monosexual T4T Flags

T4T Lesbian : ⬇️

T4T Cinthean Gaylm : ⬇️

shk0lstun-flagz:

T4T Polyamorous : ⬇️

T4T Ambiamorous : ⬇️

shk0lstun-flagz:

💙 Romeric Flag 🌹

(MLW) Romerics are men who experiences attraction to women. they may or may not be attracted to to their genders as well. It’s a term for any queer men who experiences attraction to women : transhets, a-spec hets , and any mspec men – bi, pan, omni, etc.. Similarly to how achillean/sapphic are used this can be used by queer men to emphasize their attraction to women.

❤️ Julietian Flag 🌹

(WLM) Julietians are women who experiences attraction to men. they may or may not be attracted to to their genders as well. It’s a term for any queer women who experiences attraction to men : transhets, a-spec hets , and any mspec women – bi, pan, omni, etc.. Similarly to how achillean/sapphic are used this can be used by queer women to emphasize their attraction to men.

❤️💙 Duaric Flag 🌹

Descirbes any queer hets : enbyhets, transhets, a-spec hets. This can be used as an alternate to “straight” or “het”, when referring to a relationship between a man and woman, because in that case one or more people involved might be mspec (bi/pan +) or otherwise not straight

….

– All of these include some nonbinaries depending on their alignment or unalignment and if they feel comfortable with being included in that specific attraction/label

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Simplified Versions :

Juvelic Flags

shk0lstun-flagz:

🌹 Romeopalian 💚

Romeric and Opalian terms combined

( nbymlm, nbymlnby mlw )

An **optional attraction label used by nonbinary men-aligned mspec (bi,pan + ) ppl. It can be used to indicate that they have little to no preferences in their attraction, they are attracted to all genders in a mostly equal amount

🌹 Julieridian 💖

Iridian and Julietian terms combined

( nbywlw, nbywlnby, wlm )

An **optional attraction label used by nonbinary women-aligned mspec (bi,pan + ) ppl. It can used to indicate that they have little to no preferences in their attraction, they are attracted to all genders in a mostly equal amount

shk0lstun-flagz:

Gxrly Trans Man / FTM / MTM

An identity meant to ease dysphoria, and/or help deal with transphobes by simply ignoring them as they don’t matter. For trans men that would like to reclaim the traditional “fem” terms/pronouns that incorrectly get used on them as gender neutral instead. The x is there to indicate NOT being a binary girl at all but instead it’s connected to the word “girl” in a nonbinary/gender neutral way, or in a way a man would consider themself to be “girly”

Shx FTM Pronoun Flag

Shx/Hxr/Hxrs/Hxrself

This pronoun flag is meant to go with the Gxrly trans man identity by viewing all the times you get called “she/her” as gender neutral. I feel like shx/hxr is a cool gender neutral looking version even if it sounds the same 💀 made this for myself since I simply cannot use regular she/her as a transman lol, but others can and that’s cool too

She FTM Pronoun Flag

For trans men who are comfortable with regular she/her pronouns 🙂

shk0lstun-flagz:

Pluralilium

(plura-lily-yum)

a term for mspecs that prefer other mspecs or are exclusively mspec4mspec for whatever reason

shk0lstun-flagz:

Queeromtonic

Describes ones attraction and / or relationship where it’s somewhere between queer platonic and romantic or feels both simultaneously. This could be due to not understanding the difference between romantic and platonic feelings/attraction – inspo by the Queeromfluid label – label / flag by me

shk0lstun-flagz:

Specific QPRS

A-spec Relationship Preferences

Queeryromic (QYR)

– ( queer-ree-rome-ick ) Describes a specific type of queerplatonic relationship that does involve romantic interaction but no sexual acts in the relationship. Sexual acts are NOT present but Romantic acts are ; whats considered romantic is up to the ppl involved such as cuddling / kissing but those may not be it, it could be other acts. Was made specifically for sex repulsed and romance favorable/indifferent A-specs that are ok with or desire a nonsexual romantic/queerplatonic relationship

Queeramoric (QER)

– ( queer-rah-more-ick ) Describes a specific type of queerplatonic relationship that does involve sexual interaction in the relationship, one might prefer intimate acts over romantic acts. These sexual acts may be a way to express and strengthen the platonic, and emotional bond in the relationship. Was made specifically for sex favorable / indifferent A-specs that are ok with or desire sexual interaction in a relationship in a unique A-spec / queerplatonic way

Queeraromic (QEAR)

– ( queer-rah-row-mick ) Describes a specific type of queerplatonic relationship that does involve sexual and romantic interaction in the relationship. These acts may be a way to express and strengthen the platonic, and emotional bond in the relationship. Was made specifically for romance and sex favorable/indifferent A-specs who are ok with or desire sexual / romantic interaction in a relationship in a unique A-spec / queerplatonic way

shk0lstun-flagz:

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Auto Flags

🧡 Autospec : ⬇️

💖 Autosexual : ⬇️

❤️ Autoromantic : ⬇️

💙 Autorose : ⬇️ ( Autosexual and Autoromantic )

Auto Symbols : ⬇️

+ an Autoamorous Flag

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TransWoman Pride flag ♀🏳️‍⚧️

A flag specifically for trans woman/woman-aligned ppl

– not necessarily a transfem flag (not all trans woman are feminine and not all transfems are women)

Trans Man Pride Flag (Link)

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QueerStraight/Het Flag

For any queerhets : transhets, enbyhets, a-spec hets, gnc hets. Queer and het as in not in the standard cis-het or allo normative way

Queerstraight Symbol

Represents all queer straight ppl

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+Îť+

Hyperqueer/+HYQ+

Or Hyperlabeled / +HYL+

User of multiple microlabels. Using many labels because you feel like your identity is just broad and it’s important to you to be specific. This label can be a way to shorten your identity, to show that there is more to your queer identity

-repost with slightly updated def / flag design-

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Girlboy or Boygirlneutral/neu

being a gender neutral girlboy/boygirl : using the label “girlboy/boygirl” to describe yourself in a nby or gender neutral way

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Boyneutral/neu

being a gender neutral boy : using the label “boy” to describe yourself in a nby or gender neutral way

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Girlneutral/neu

being a gender neutral girl : using the label “girl” to describe yourself in a nby or gender neutral way

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( coined by me )

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IntruAroAce

– For any Aroacespec that feel confused/conflicted about romantic and sexual attraction because they struggle with sexual and romantic intrusive thoughts

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IntruAro / Intruromantic

– For any Arospec that feel confused/conflicted about romantic attraction because they struggle with romantic intrusive thoughts

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IntruAce / Intrusexual

– For any Acespec that feel confused/conflicted about sexual attraction because they struggle with sexual intrusive thoughts

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Anxious A-spec Flag

For Any anxious A-specs or for those that feel like their anxiety is linked to their a-spec identity(s)

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T4T-Flexible : a label for trans ppl who prefer t4t attraction/relationships but with some cis folks as exceptions

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Flags/Specific Types of t4t-flexibility

T4T-Flexible

T4T4c

Preferring t4t with some cis exceptions, this flag is for both cis men and women as some exceptions

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T4T-Flexible4cm

T4T4cm

Preferring t4t with some cis men exceptions, but not cis women for whatever reason that may be : dysphoria, truama, or just not attracted to either trans/cis women at all

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T4T-Flexible4cw

T4T4cw

Preferring t4t with some cis women exceptions, but not cis men for whatever reason that may be : dysphoria, truama, or just not attracted to either trans/cis men at all

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Pretendgirl

pretending to be feminine or “girlish”-like but not actually a girl/feminine, the label could also best defined by the user. anyone who isn’t a binary girl can use this

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Pretendboy

pretending to be masculine or “boyish”-like but not actually a boy/masculine, the label can also best be defined by the user. anyone who isn’t a binary boy can use this

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Achillean Expression Labels

These are for those that feel like their achillean identity influences their gender expression/modality

💖 Ros- (boy/nby+)

For any nby/mlm that consider themselves feminine aligned in some way. Could be Fem in expression, presentation and/or gender.

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❤️ Rosevean-

[ rose-vee-in ] (Or Rosandrogyne) For any nby/mlm that consider themselves feminine-androgynous aligned in some way. Could be fem-andro in expression, presentation, and/or gender.

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💜 Lavdroian-

[ lav-drow-ee-in ] (Or Lavdrogyne) For any nby/mlm that consider themselves neutral and/or androgynous aligned in some way. Could be Neutral / Androgynous in expression, presentation, and/or gender

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💚 Lavdian-

[ lav-dee-uhn ] (or lavdainth / lavandroth) For any nby/mlm that consider themselves masc-androgynous aligned in some way. Could be masc-andro in expression, presentation, and/or gender

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💙 Androth-

(other names : dainthean / dainth [ dane-thee-in ] ) For any nby/mlm that consider themselves completely masculine or queerly masculine aligned in expression, presentation, and/or gender. Identifying with masculinity to a greater extent than with fem, androgyny.

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Alt Demigender Flags

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Demiboy / Demiman – partially boy/man

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Demigirl / Demiwoman – partially girl/woman

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Demigirlboy / Demimanwoman – partially boygirl/manwoman

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Demienby / Deminonbinary – partially enby/nonbinary

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Demifluid / Demigenderfluid – partially genderfluid

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Demienboy / Demanby – partially enboy/manby (:nonbinary and boy/man)

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Demigirlby / Demiwomanby – partially girlby/womanby (:nonbinary and girl/woman)

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BinaryMan

For those exclusively aligned to binary manhood ; not having any other layers to their gender identity

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DinaryMan

being a binary and a nonbinary man simultaneously or fluidly

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BinaryWoman

For those exclusively aligned to binary womanhood ; not having any other layers to their gender identity

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DinaryWoman

being a binary and a nonbinary woman simultaneously or fluidly

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Man-Pref Bi

For any bi oriented person who have an attraction preference for men

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Woman-Pref Bi

For any bi oriented person who have an attraction preference for women

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Masc-Pref Bi

For any bi oriented person who have an attraction preference for anyone who is masculine or present’s masculine

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Fem-Pref Bi

For any bi oriented person who have an attraction preference for anyone who is feminine or presents feminine

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Edit : sorry for portraying the stereotypical blue equal masc, and fem equals pink thing on these. The original bi flags meanings aren’t defined like that (bi flag meaning) , I was already aware of the meanings as I made these but I had the intention of these flags having separate meanings, different from the original I didn’t really think too hard on the colors tbh I just really wanted to stick to the same aesthetic of the bi flag but with these versions having symbols on them too show an attraction preference.

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☂️ “Gay” ♂

(mspec homoflexible-achillean)

Brolly gay for mspec-achilleans specifically

mlm/nbylm

For homoflexible or any mspec achilleans that use gay as umbrella term for their orientation. Their attraction to men/similar genders might be stronger or more often than their attraction towards other genders.

☂️ “Gay” ♀

(mspec homoflexible-sapphic)

Parasol gay for mspec-sapphics specifically

wlw/nbylw

For homoflexible or any mspec sapphics that use “gay” as umbrella term for their orientation. Their attraction to women/similar genders might be stronger or more often than their attraction towards other genders.

( Umbrella gay enbian/saphillean flag )

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FtM4FtM / T-M4T-M

( or mtm4ftm / mtm if some trans men prefer that label over ftm )

for any achillean mlm trans men that prioritize their attraction to other trans men / men-aligned people

– does not have to be exclusive, it could just be a preference

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T4T-AroAce

For any trans t4t aroace-specs

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T4T-Ace

For any trans t4t ace-specs

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T4T-Aro

For any trans t4t aro-specs

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Trans MTM

for transgender men who consider themselves transitioning from male to male, as they have always been male, just not in the way being male is traditionally defined as.

It is an alterative to FtM as FtM implies that one was female at some point, then transitioned to male, which does not accurately describe how some trans men view their gender. Female-to-male is a framing that’s easier to explain, but only because it’s still rooted in the concept of binary sex distinctions and assuming gender based on sex, which many trans people want to do away with entirely.

Alt Flag from the one in this wiki ( link )

Simplified version

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Romericflux

(romeric mlw)

a man attracted to women but this attraction fluctuates in intensity or is rarely ; from feeling no attraction, weakly attracted, or strongly attracted to women. Includes het and any mspec men / some nbys

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Julietianflux

(julietian wlm)

a woman attracted to men but this attraction fluctuates in intensity or is rarely ; from feeling no attraction, weakly attracted, or strongly attracted to men. Includes het and any mspec women / some nbys

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Achilleanflux

(achillean mlm)

a man attracted to other men but this attraction fluctuates in intensity or is rarely ; from feeling no attraction, weakly attracted, or strongly attracted to men. Includes gay and any mspec men / some nbys

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Sapphicflux

(sapphic wlw)

a woman attracted to other women but this attraction fluctuates in intensity or is rarely ; from feeling no attraction, weakly attracted, or strongly attracted to women. Includes lesbian and any mspec women / some nbys

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– these are a-spec identities in way since the attraction can become almost little to none

– does not have to be rom/sexual attraction could be other forms of attractions too, it’s up to the user however this attraction may fluctuate

– nonbinary people are included in all these attractions depending on their alignment or unalignment, or if they just feel comfortable feeling included in that specific attraction / label

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☂️ Gay

(nbylm , nbylw, nbylnby )

For nonbinary mspec – saphillean/enbians that use the label “gay” as an umbrella term. They experience attraction in a “gay” way its never het.

Links to other umbrella gay flags : ( nby,mlm / nby,wlw )

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Bi-Juvelic Flags

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Bi-Achillean

– For any bi oriented achilleans that want to emphasize their achillean attraction : mlm (or nbymlm)

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Bi-Sapphic

– For any bi oriented sapphics that want to emphasize their sapphic attraction : wlw (or nbywlw)

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Bi-Romeric

– For any bi oriented romerics that want to emphasize their romeric attraction : mlw ( or nbymlw)

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Bi-Julietian

– For any bi oriented julietians that want to emphasize their julietian attraction : wlm (or nbywlm)

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BiPan / PanBi

– For mspecs that relate to both the bi and pan definitions, or use both labels interchangeably

Symbol :

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Pan-Juvelic Flags

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Pan-Achillean

For any pan oriented achilleans that want to emphasize their achillean attraction : mlm (or nbymlm)

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Pan-Sapphic

For any pan oriented sapphics that want to emphasize their sapphic attraction : wlw (or nbywlw)

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Pan-Romeric

For any pan oriented romerics that want to emphasize their romeric attraction : mlw (or nbymlw)

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Pan-Julietian

For any pan oriented julietians that want to emphasize their julietian attraction : wlm (or nbywlm)

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Ply-Juvelic Flags

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Ply-Achillean

For any ply oriented achilleans that want to emphasize their achillean attraction : mlm (or nbymlm)

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Ply-Sapphic

For any ply oriented sapphics that wan to emphasize their sapphic attraction : wlw (or nbywlw)

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Ply-Romeric

For any ply oriented romerics that want to emphasize their romeric attraction : mlw (or nbymlw)

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Ply-Julietian

For any ply oriented julietians that want to emphasize their julietian attraction : wlm (or nbywlm)

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Omni-Juvelic flags

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Omni-Achillean

For any omni oriented achilleans that want to emphasize their achillean attraction : mlm (or nbylm)

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Omni-Sapphic

For any omni oriented sapphics that want to emphasize their sapphics attraction : wlw (or nbylw)

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Omni-Romeric

For any omni oriented romerics that want to emphasize their romeric attraction : mlw (or nbymlw)

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Omni-Julietian

For any omni oriented julietians that want to emphasize their julietian attraction : wlm (or nbywlm)

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Masculinx / Mascx

(mask-you-luhn-ex) / ( masc-ex) A xenic-neutral nonconforming type of Masculinity

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Femixine / Femx

( feh-muh-zin) / ( fem-ex ) A xenic-neutral nonconforming type of Femininity

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Androgynx

( an-draa-juh-nex ) A xenic-neutral nonconforming type of Androgyny

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– These are gender presentations they don’t have to effect ones gender

– These are a personal feelings of one’s expression, it feels nonconforming and xenic-neutral : could mean being connected to masc/fem/androgyny in a xenic way (feels strange, otherworldly, or foreign) and it also feels neutral in nature. But it’s best defined by the individual

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Tomboy – a girl (or nby) who is “boyish” / GNC (masculine/androgynous) in expression or behavior

୨・┈﹕✦﹕﹕✦﹕┈・୧

Janegirl – a boy (or nby) who is “girlish” / GNC (feminine/androgynous) in expression or behavior

୨・┈﹕✦﹕﹕✦﹕┈・୧

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GNC

Gender-nonconforming

A person who doesn’t adhere to societal pressures to conform to gender norms and roles

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Reoriented / Adapt-oriented

A Term for folks who would be willing to re-adjust their orientation/attraction in way that would align and support their current partner(s) possible gender identity changes or transitioning

( example : a straight woman whose partner transitions to a woman would readjust her orientation to be lesbian/sapphic or multisexual out of support of her partners new gender identity.)

  • Mostly for any mono-oriented folks that feel like they would do this for their current partner(s) but mspecs could use it as well to show that they would be supportive/adapt to any gender change/transition their current partner(s) might go through

The opposite of this : Nonreoriented / Nonadapt-oriented

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Nonreoriented / Nonadapt-oriented

A Term for folks mono oriented folks, who due to a type of attraction dysphoria or gender preferences, wouldn’t be able to continue a relationship if their partner(s) change or transition into a gender out of their range of genders their attracted to. However that doesn’t mean they are against their ex-partners gender change.

(Example : a gay man who’s partner transitions to a woman, then the relationship eventually ending due some type of dysphoria on one or both sides not because of transphobia.)

The opposite of this : Reoriented / Adapt oriented

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Grey-Aqueerplatonic

Feeling queer platonic attraction rarely, ambiguously or at a low intensity.

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Enbian

Used to describe nonbinary individuals attracted (exclusively or not) to nonbinary people

– alternative flag made for fun

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Demitomboy

Being partially a tomboy : a masc/gnc “boyish” girl

Demijanegirl

Being partially a janegirl : a fem/gnc “girlish” boy

– Tomboy and Janegirl flags –

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Achilenbian

Refers to those that are both achillean and enbian

Saphenbian

Refers to those that are both sapphic and enbian

Terms from ( here )

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HeGirl

A type of gender/pronoun-nonconformity, where one likes to be referred to as a he/him along with being called a girl. Not exclusive to girls, anyone who’s comfortable with the label “girl” can also be this

SheBoy

A type of gender/pronoun-nonconformity, where one likes to be referred to as a she/her along with being called a boy. Not exclusive to boys, anyone who’s comfortable with the label “boy” can also be this

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Juvelic Flags

Juvelic Symbols

From left to right in order :

Achillean – MLM

Sapphic – WLW

Romeric – MLW

Julietian – WLM

⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘

– Flag redesigns made for fun

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transnull flag set

lesbian / gay / bi

nb / genderfluid / agender

ace / aro / aegoaroace

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Bipolar Flags

for lgbts who have bipolar ! in order: lesbian, gay, bi, trans, pansexual, nonbinary, asexual, aromantic, genderfluid

DO NOT INTERACT if you are bigoted, ace/aro/pan exclusionist, support mspec lesbians/gays, or support endogenic/non-traumagenic systems.

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Acinthean gay flag

A gaylm that uses the cinthean and achillean labels

Saphbian lesbian flag

A lesbian that also uses the sapphic label

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Cinthigirl/g-rl

a term for any fem/gnc gaylm cintheans. They may feel connected to or represented by femininity, being non-conformingly “girlish” with their expression or gender in some way but they are not a binary-girl/woman. Alternatively could typed as ( cinthig-rl ) if one would like to emphasize not actually being a girl.

⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘

Cinthiboygirl/g-rlboy

a term for any gnc/gaylm cintheans. They may like the “boygirl” label for themselves to express their nonconformity in some way but they aren’t a binary girl/woman. Alternatively can be typed as cinthiboyg-rl to emphasize not actually being a girl (or cinthib-yg-rl if one prefers being completely neutral)

⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘

Lesbyboy/b-y

A term for any masc/gnc lesbians. They may feel connected to or represented by masculinity, being non-conformingly “boyish” with their expression or identity in some way but they are not a binary boy/man. Alternatively could be typed as ( lesbyb-y ) to emphasize not actually being a boy.

⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘

Lesbyboygirl/girlb-y

A term for any gnc lesbians. They may like the “boygirl” label for themselves to express their nonconformity in some way but they aren’t a binary boy/man. Alternatively can be typed as lesbyb-ygirl to emphasize not actually being a boy ( or lesbyb-yg-rl if one prefers being completely neutral)

– Inspired by the offboy and offgirl labels –

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CintheanGay Flag (blue)

For gay men & nonbinary folks that are primarily or exclusively attracted to other men (and might also be attracted towards some specific nonbinary folks)

– Lazy flag design idea tbh but I just wanted to see what the 2 flags looked like combined. Personally I never really liked either of the flags but I do like the cinthean flags layout & and colors of the blue one. So I combined what I liked from both into one and now I love it 100% 🙏

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Cinthiboy/man

// or : Gayboy/man

When ones gender IS gay/cinthean and male, only wanting to be perceived as a man/boy as it’s important to their gay/cinthean identity since they are both heavily connected inseparable identities to this individual.

Lesbygirl/woman

When ones gender IS lesbian & female, only wanting to be perceived as a woman/girl as its important to their lesbian identity since they are both heavily connected inseparable identities to this individual.

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Man+/Boy+

When one is entirely a man/boy +plus additional genders. Being male is the main part of their gender identity while the other genders are simply just additional.

Woman+/Girl+

When one is entirely a woman/girl +plus additional genders. Being female is the main part of their gender identity while the other genders are simply just additional.

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Trans Flags

⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘

Trans Man

⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘

Trans Woman

⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘

Transmasculine

⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘

Transfeminine

⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘⍘

((Link)) Transfem and Transmasc Symbols)

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Mangirl / Girlman

** a label / identity best defined by that individual **

Could mean :

– being bi-gender : a man that is a girl / a girl that is a man

– a feminine/gnc man : a man that likes using the “girl” label and possibly other fem terms/labels

Womanboy / Boywoman

** a label / identity best defined by that individual **

Could mean :

– being bi-gender : a woman that is a boy / a boy that is a woman

– a masculine/gnc woman : a woman that likes using the “boy” label and possibly other masc terms/labels

themagicalkidproject:

Rowanian is a term and flag coined by @haunted-thing describing someone who is attracted to both men in a queer and straight way and women in a queer and straight way!

This Magical Kid has a Royal and Sky theme. She uses She/He pronouns!

His name is Thistle, after a shade of purple seen in the Rowanian flag (just between the 3rd and 4th stripes)! He can control shadows and dissolve into them!

Her Magical Kid weapon is a Spell Book– she can use it for shooting out beams of light- of course, he has to be careful. Too much light means no shadows to control!

A useless fact about him is that she has Gifted ADHD and often infodumps about the histories of fonts!

(The Magical Kid Project is a project wherein I steadily turn Pride flags into Magical Kids)

caeliangel:

IMAGE ID. 3 rectangular flags with 7 stripes. The first flags stripes, in order: dull violet, dull purple, light dull pink, dirty white, dull yellowish green, dull brown, dull darker brown. The second flags stripes, in order: dark dull red, dull orange, light dull orange, dirty white, dull light green, dull green, dark dull green. The last flags stripes, in order: dark dull magenta, dull magenta, dull pink, light grey, dull light brown, dull brown, dark dull brown. END OF ID.

୨୧ • racoon velaurian, alpaca gaybian, sheep rowanian

︵︵︵︵︵︵★ ꒱ explanations :

Terms similar to “bambi lesbian”, but for velaurians, gaybians and rowanians.

PT. racoon velaurian, alpaca gaybian, sheep rowanian. explanations. Terms similar to “bambi lesbian”, but for velaurians, gaybians and rowanians. END OF PT.

haunted-thing:

image id: rectangular flag with six stripes that are,in order: dark muted purple, medium muted purple, light muted pink, light muted blue, medium muted blue, dark muted blue-purple /end id

rowanian

rowanian: being both sophian and jamian / experiencing both straight and queer attraction to women & experiencing both queer and straight attraction to men .

requested by @eerieangels ! :3

radiomogai:

haunted-thing:

flags need id

aubrian – lancian – parkian

aubrian ; experiencing neither straight nor queer attraction to women

lancian ; experiencing neither straight or queer attraction to men

parkian ; experiencing neither straight nor queer attraction to nonbinary people

cousin terms to sophian and jamian

tags ; @radiomogai , @eerieangels , @jiiamp

[ID: Three flags with six equal horizontal stripes. In order, the stripes of the first flag are dark indigo, indigo, light purple, very pale pink, magenta, and pinkish-purple. The stripes of the second flag are dark green, green, light green, very pale green, turquoise, and soft muted blue. The stripes of the third flag are dark red-orange, orange, light orange, very pale yellow, light orange-ish red, and raspberry pink. /End ID.]

[PT: aubrian – lancian – parkian. end PT]

IDs by @liom-archive

themogaidragon:

Libidoist Terms List

PT: Libidoist Terms List /end PT

These are terms to refer to sex drive, aka libido, experiences of sexual urges/desires. For example, urges/desires or lack thereof to masturbate, have sexual relationships, participate in sexual acts, etc regardless of orientation.

Under the cut are the terms I could find.

Keep reading

general techniques to avoid gross shipping of your characters

demonicae:

harperhug:

queenofthecommunistcannibals:

much-vexed-glowy-mimic:

fission-mailure:

sangled:

  1. have most characters be non-minors, around the same age range. this is mostly to minimize underage nonsense.
  2. while family relationships are important, save them as background elements, explored every now and then. focus mainly on the bonds of non-related characters and how their different backgrounds play off each other.
  3. limit the overly edgy tone, where pain and suffering are near-romanticized. try to emphasize wholesomeness, health, and the various ways characters can have good relationships despite their differences. a lot of nintendo franchises are good examples.
  4. avoid creating significant characters who are utterly irredeemable with harmful ethics. (for me personally, i limit elements such as abuse and discrimination for background conflicts while presenting more interesting, morally gray arguments, where either side is right/flawed) if you’re going to have a villain, either make them team rocket goofy or classic disney fun.
  5. just. try not to have characters + relationships rely on racial tropes. if you overly rely on a tough dark-skinned / dainty light-skinned formula, you’re going to see some racist shipping. mix it up. round ‘em out.
  6. same goes for gendered tropes. if a dude is downright violent and irresponsible and a level-headed girl has to put up with his flaws without him facing consequence, that’s a downright unbalanced relationship. and do keep in mind that if two boys utterly despise each other, people will absolutely take that a certain way. again, with #3, try to play off disdain as comedic or with exception rather than constant seething hatred.

obviously these aren’t hard and fast rules, and what/how you create will vary. but it’s how i generally approach my work

I am legitimately amazed that tumblr’s weird obsession with Never Have Anything Unwholesome writing advice has now reached the point of:

– Don’t have children in your work,

– Don’t have families in your work.

– Don’t have any themes or ideas darker than Nintendo, because that’s romanticising suffering.

– Don’t have villains unless they’re in the relatively simplistic, child-friendly mould of Disney or Pokemon, and don’t try to deal with any difficult themes.

– Don’t have characters dislike each other.

The idea that you should build your work – because these are all fundamental aspects of a story – around preventative measures against ‘gross shipping,’ and that coincidentally all those measures boil down to “Have as little nuance, conflict, or difficult and unpleasant things as possible,” is kind of creepy.

‘Next on Writing Stories: Don’t.’

That first post is literally the worst writing advice I have ever heard. It is physically painful how terrible it is. Never follow any of this.

Here is my writing advice: write whatever the fuck you want, however you want to. Fiction is fiction and you are not responsible for people who do not understand that.

Hays’ Code for the modern era.

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I have two university degrees in Creative Writing. BA and
MA.

I have been writing professionally for A Long Time.

I think, instinctually, most people look at this kind of
advice and recognise it as unhelpful for writing anything that isn’t aimed at
very young children.

This is the voice of someone who has taken so much of Tumblr’s
self-critical rhetoric and internalised it to the point that they can’t write a
paragraph without censoring themselves.

And I get it, I really do, this website will tell you that
so much of what we do is harmful to someone, somewhere. And most sane human beings want to cause as little
suffering to others as possible. But this is NOT helpful when it comes to
writing fiction.

This is because fiction is meant to be an exploration. They
are meant to ask questions we don’t ask in polite conversation. Fiction is a
tool for asking ‘what if?’

It is the perfect place to have conflict, have prejudice, and
bile-raising gore. The best place to write about paedophiles, murderers, lynching,
and age gap relationships.

You don’t have to babysit your readers, if they don’t
like what they’re reading they’ll walk away.

I have preferences for what I do and do not want to read, we
all do (I personally start to feel a little sweaty and ill at heavy gore) but
to impose our preferences onto everyone else and forbid topics from being
explored in fiction is a slippery slope that has historically ended in heavy censorship
and book burnings.

Cleansing fiction of anything you see as ‘impure’ results in
dead stories that serve no purpose. A puritanical approach to fiction only
sanitises works for a small percentage of people.

I think that comes from a notion that all fiction should
cater to all people. Which is a very Tumblr-esque approach that I’ve not really
encountered elsewhere.

So, in case you haven’t heard this before, I’m putting it
out there: Not everything is written with you in mind, and there will be a lot
of stories that aren’t ‘for you.’

When writing: write for yourself. If you are happy with what
you have created, chances are someone else will like it too. Write something
you would want to read.