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.
In 2015 I left my abuser of seven years, and since have been disabled with #PTSD and other chronic conditions, fighting #suicide. I was unable to work at all for five years. My personal narrative now is about recovery out of that #DarkSojourn. I'm usually in some kind of pain, and try not to whine too much about it. I'm #Genderfluid#nonbinary (they/them) of recent transition, #polyamorous, and #bisexual.
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.
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#Irish does not have a specific word for #genderfluid, but it is still possible to discuss it. You just have to say a gender (inscne) that is fluid (luaineach).
For example, "Sam is genderfluid" can be translated two ways:
• "Tá inscne luaineach ag Sam" (llit. "Sam has a fluid gender")
• "Is luaineach é inscne na Sam" (lit. "Sam's gender is fluid")
"A genderfluid person" is "Duine na/le inscne luaineach") (lit. "Person of/with fluid gender")
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.
"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."
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
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/