A safe space for (gender)queer folks! DNI: donate requests and hate in any form will be blocked! He/They/Fey/Dem. I'm a soft non-binary man with a gender that's entirely removed from the gender binary concept. Terms I identify with: genderqueerpunk, aporagender, contra- and apobinary, kenochoric, abinary, subversigender, abs-&isogender, contrariangender, rebelgender, scorpigender, hiddaroric & lonewolfgender.
The LGBTQ refugees of South Sudan (Africa) are in shock right now after the news they got from the government official of South Sudan forcing the refugees to evacuate from the camp without any support from them. There are big challenges they're going through, like not being given enough food, water and other basic needs to last long enough - everything they get provided for a "month" is barely enough for a week. Not even speaking of the daily threats of aggression they face.
These challenges now became much worse...
They're given 10 days to leave but they don't have funds to evacuate them or even funds to rent a house for them. The official stated it very well that any lgbt person found in the camp after 10 days will be imprisoned, or even deported.
Please, if you're able to help them to get some funds for transport or a house to rent to save their lives....
DONATE HERE!!!
The refugees are in fear of their lives and don't know what to do next.
Ok, so hear me out: This is a new way to graph your gender, with a lot of possibilities. Gender charts exist, but they are either too complex or don't have much depth. I was tired of searching for a gender chart where I could list my actual gender on.
So, I've decided to make a gender spectrum of my own!
Why this might work for you:
•This is an easy way to graph your gender identity and expression.
•This gender graph is for everyone with any kind of gender. It's okay to not know every term that is listed here. Just fill in what you know, or maybe take a moment to study the terms that are new to you!
•You can fill in the scales however you like, or leave spaces open. It's all up to you!
This is how it works:
•On top, you get asked the question "what do you identify as?" The options listed are cisgender, transgender, nonbinary, intersex and other.
I separated nonbinary from transgender, since not every nonbinary person identifies as trans.
In the 'other' category you can think of terms like isogender and absgender.
•In the middle, you can graph your gender identity. There's a horizontal line from male to female, and a vertical line from agender to any other gender. Think of X-gender, aporagender, xenogender and many more.
In the middle of this graph, you find the term 'androgynous'. This is meant as a term for anyone who feels in between male or female. Intersex people might prefer the term intergender here.
•On the left side, you find the number of genders that you experience. This goes from 0, a half, one and multiple up to experiencing all genders at once.
•On the right side, you can graph your gender expression. Do you prefer to conform to a gender binary expression, or rather not? Yes is at the bottom (gender conforming), no is at the top (gender non-conforming).
•At the bottom, you find a question about if your gender is relevant to you or not. If not, you could be cassgender or apagender for example.
Please remember, you can pinpoint yourself anywhere on any of these scales!
Taking things to a deeper level:
If you are someone who understands there are many different kinds of gender, or if you are willing to learn about this, I made a gender spectrum chart especially for you:
If you feel ready to explore your gender identity or a deeper level, or learn about new gender terms, this is the way to do it!
It works the same as the gender graph listed above, but there is more depth to it and you find a lot of terms on there!
•Feel free to add even more terms yourself, or give me feedback on how I can make this chart even more inclusive!
•If you don't feel like this gender spectrum is something for you, please just continue scrolling. I've put many months of research into making this, so I'd like to see respectful comments only!
•If there are enough likes and reblogs on this post, I'll make even more accessible versions of the charts and add them to my socials and my soon to be released website! GO GO GO!!!
outherineslider / oumanslider / ouneslider / etc. : a gender term, where outherine/ouman/oune/etc. is the static gender.
kenochoricslider / omenslider / hexslider / etc. : a gender term, where kenochoric / omen / hex / etc. is the static gender.
xenogenderslider / xenanslider / xipslider / etc. : a gender term, where xenogender/xenan/xip/etc. is the static gender.
As always, I listed some examples, but as long as they have a similar meaning, you can use other terms too (e.g. emveeslider instead of mavslider).
↓ References:
✦ genderslider coining
✦ genderslider flag
✦ the androgyne, agender, neutrois, maverique, ilyagender, aporagender, outherine, kenochoric, and xenogender flags I used (includes their sources)
I wasn't quite sure how to incorporate other gender flags into the genderslider flag, because the base flag doesn't really have much colour/stripe meanings besides the center dark blue bar representing a sliding scale.
I settled on putting the putting the gender flag in the background, and the blue/green slider on top. It's pretty simplistic, but I wasn't sure how else to mix the flags together, and I think it fits decently. They're layered on top of each other, with the base gender being static / always present, and the slider changing on top (I also think the cool colours fit with change/fluidity, like water).
I added outlines to the slider for better contrast. For the outline colours, I chose what it was on top of (in the case of 2 center stripes, what it contrasted best with), and if that didn't fit, then plain white (though kenochoricslider specifically uses black, to match the overall theme better).
There's also 2 slider versions, rounded and squared, since I couldn't choose between them. The squared version is more like the original flag, but rounded feels more like a slider to me (which I think is influenced by my learning of css design, IRL sliders are probably more rectangular).
Some more graphics continuing this set of pride flag edits! As always, I used some sex term flags created by @ryanyflags. Kemel (kenochoric sex term) can be found here and midbinmel (midbinary sex term) is here. Ilyamel (ilyagender sex term) is mine, found here.
aberrochoric/kenorrorex! ⸻ a term that is both aberrorex (link) & kenochoric (link), aberrorex-in-nature (AEXIN) & kenochoric-in-nature (KEIN), aberrorex-aligned & kenochoric-aligned (kenic), or any other combination between the two terms!
for the kenochoric asker, as a fellow kenic individual:
kenochoric is a neogender, which is not considered under xenogender. they may overlap, and may go hand in hand even, but the rule of thumb is that xenos =/= neos.
i'm pretty sure you can be outherine in any capacity and fit any neogender, considering the concept of neogenders is, simply put, that they're New Genders (you can read more here), while xenogender is understood as "an umbrella term for non-binary gender identities that cannot be fully described through their relation to concepts typically used to describe gender such as male, female, woman, man, masculinity, femininity, androgyny, neutrality, agenrinity, or outherinity." (from here)
in practice, xenogenders have been expanded to function alongside neogenders, but xeninity is meant to "fill the gap" of gender experiences. neogenders, on the other hand, are their standalone, new thing. "future" genders, if you will (/lh /silly). all this to say, your kenochoric identity can exist on itself alongside your outherine identity no problem in the slightest, no contradiction even. ofc you can do whatever you want forever, but yeah !
just wanted to add some to the conversation, since i'm very interested in kenochoric and it's a neoumbrella i treasure !! hope this made sense hahah
Xenogenders are neogenders. So are any terms that have been coined from 2000 and onward. The coiner themselves said so. Unless I'm reading it wrong which is likely, because the definition is really hard to read and understand for me.
What I don't agree with is the coiner claiming "MOGAI" genders only fall under neogenders. MOGAI, I thought, was coined to include as many queer identities as possible. Because of that, the definition for neogender is insinuating that MOGAI was coined as a way to exclude people. MOGAI doesn't mean identities coined recently. It's literally for marginalized identities, so nonbinary (not a neogender) would fall under it. That bothers me a lot!
But yes, kenochoric and outherine can exist alongside each other. That can happen with just about any gender.
A term for kenochoric folks who present their kenosity in a purposefully uncanny and frightening manner. This could be through alternative fashion, body modification, etcetera.
(Image ID: A flag with eight stripes that go from a dark desaturated blue to light grey the closer they are to the bottom. There is a variation of the mars symbol in black that is outlined in light grey, which is a circle with a question mark where the arrow typically would be.)
