This morning there was an interesting presentation at #lgm about using new typographic ligatures to make written language more gender-neutral. Great ideas with graphically interesting solutions. Thanks to the "Bye Bye Binary"-collective. https://typotheque.genderfluid.space/
Lee Teka is also a comic artist (often under E.L. Tedana), and you can help support them by buying this wonderful anthology of their work from ABO Comix: https://www.abocomix.com/store/p303/bodeofwork.html
I'm TapTap, I'm 33, gender fluid, and after a tame but conservative upbringing I finally feel safe & able to get clothes that feel right to me.
Please make yourself VISIBLE by registering to #VOTE and participating in every election you can! A lot of gross policies are very local, where your vote counts much more. "Both sides" is a form of vote suppression
Block anyone who tries to discourage you or others from voting. Monsters.
"Quite an enjoyable read. The voice, the prose, the characters and plot - everything was good. If you love sci-fi, space operas, advanced technology, alien civilisations, flawed characters and high personal stakes, this is the book for you."
You know, I'm still baffled by the fact that Dorian Electra released a Hyperpop album in 2020 where they collaborated with Pussy Riot, the Village People, and Rebecca Black (helping launch her comeback) to satirize and roast incels, edgelords, conspiracy theorists, and tradwives.
And it honestly had better analysis of the online far right in it than many of my academic colleagues had in their papers and activism.
If you haven't, go listen to it and just imbibe the campy genderfuckery that is Dorian Electra's "My Agenda."
Gender-fluid be like slosh slosh slosh.
So much gender, I can't choose just one.
:ms_blue_potion: :ms_pink_potion: :ms_purple_potion: :ms_blue_potion: :ms_pink_potion: :ms_purple_potion:
Asking fellow #genderfluid and/or #nonbinary people who use languages with grammatical genders: Does anyone else see their grammatical gender and gender identity as two separate concepts?
Like for me, I generally use they/them pronouns in English for myself (or sometimes she/her or he/him), but usually only the equivalent of he/him in Polish.
I feel like I have a male grammatical gender, but in the same way a brush (pędzel) or paper (papier) has, if that makes sense.
The selfie du jour, while waiting for curbside delivery of a proper webcam after reluctantly limping along on my phone camera all these years into the online meeting era. Yes, I'm that kind of weird contradictory luddite tightwad who goes "I have a camera already, why do I need another gizmo?" 🤣 Sporting my version of the US Pacific Northwest fall layered look.
Wearing one of my favorite hats - swag from a local Halloween season event (a soapbox derby style race in wacky coffins, costumes encouraged!). The logo is an homage to Rat Fink monster hotrod art and I love it to pieces 💗
Me after breaking my little medical fast with a nice strong latte. Yep, just not a natural morning person, never was, never will be. (But that sunrise drive through deserted streets was pretty sweet...)
Who was the earliest fictional #genderqueer or #genderfluid character that we can give a specific year to? (I don't want to count mythical figures like Loki, unless we know when the myth of his pregnancy was written.)
The earliest I can think of is Krazy Kat, from the early 1910s.
Nanabozho (in syllabics: ᓇᓇᐳᔓ, [nɐˌnɐbʊˈʒʊ]), also known as Nanabush, is a spirit in Anishinaabe aadizookaan (traditional storytelling), particularly among the Ojibwe. Nanabozho figures prominently in their storytelling, including the story of the world's creation. Nanabozho is the Ojibwe trickster figure and...
Nanabozho - the genderfluid shapeshifting Ojibwe trickster god who slapped Paul Bunyan silly with a walleye bass. (en.wikipedia.org)
Nanabozho (in syllabics: ᓇᓇᐳᔓ, [nɐˌnɐbʊˈʒʊ]), also known as Nanabush, is a spirit in Anishinaabe aadizookaan (traditional storytelling), particularly among the Ojibwe. Nanabozho figures prominently in their storytelling, including the story of the world's creation. Nanabozho is the Ojibwe trickster figure and...