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The 2021 Gender Census is now open!

[ Link to survey ]

The eighth annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 10th March 2021.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, retweet this tweet, boost this Mastodon post, check out this post on Reddit, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks like Facebook. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 24,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/gendercensus2021/

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

Thank you so much!

gendercensus

Friday 12th February 2021

It’s day 3 and there have been over 14,000 participants so far, which is way ahead of last year’s day 3, and well over halfway to beating last year’s record!

And it’s only lunchtime!

Several times yesterday there was a new survey response coming in every four seconds. Right now it’s more like two responses per minute.

[ Take the survey ]

fuckyeahasexual

I saw this chart and I thought it might help people navigate what activities they felt safe to do or not go. (I actually followed up with a guide of why things on this list are listed where they are.)

starlightomatic

hey (@americans) please remember that the pandemic is not over. please wear masks, keep six feet away from each other, don’t go out for unecessary stuff. i know that a lot of states are reopening but the cases are increasing again and we’re starting a second wave. i know we’re all tired of covid and there’s a lot going on right now but please please please remember this isn’t over. (6/10/20)

starlightomatic

I’m serious. I keep seeing posts about people going to restaurants, planning barbecues, going on dates with new people, etc. I’m begging you, please stop. We only got this under control because we isolated. What was the point of the last three months of hardship if we’re just going to go back and spread the virus again? This isn’t over just because you’re tired of it.

paracomas

one day i’ll write a book that’s someone’s favorite book and that’s going to be enough to keep going

theredscreech

Right now I’m writing my favourite book and that’s enough to keep going.

#writing

disparition

Swords of Salt

This is a piece about Anger, Atonement, Violence, Reflection, Fascism and Antifascism, and, as always, about Walls.

https://disparition.bandcamp.com/album/2-swords-of-salt I began work on this chapter as protests over police murders of Black citizens turned into a nationwide cry for justice. By the time I finished, state forces were openly attacking peaceful protestors and media all over the country, resistance to fascism had been declared terrorism by the regime, and my city and many others are now under indefinite curfew. The fight against white supremacy, a sickness engrained in our institutions and culture, is a fight we must share physically, emotionally, and spiritually. We must not only work against the machinery of state but against our own mentalities, assumptions, and narratives. 100% of the proceeds from this piece, as well as all Disparition income up through the end of this week’s “Bandcamp Day” are going directly to my local chapter of Black Lives Matter here in Los Angeles, the founding chapter of the movement, who work tirelessly to hold the LAPD accountable for the hundreds of murders and attacks they have committed. I am a Jewish person, this work is Jewish art, and I believe that Black Lives Matter. I fully align with the protestors and with the cause of restorative justice and liberation. Compassion is not a conspiracy, nor a coincidence. There is no such thing as an organization called ANTIFA, nor is there any worldwide Jewish conspiracy to cause civil unrest by paying protestors; instead there is this simple truth: the white supremacist power structure is a menace to the citizens of the world and must be pulled out by its roots – and in doing so, we must question our own. This piece is the second chapter of a series called “In A Walled City”, and in this context it is also a frame. What I write about, in the series in general, is a future – or a set of futures, a collection of branches. The worlds depicted in this series, as it evolves, are not of some seperate, fictional universe, but this one. This episode concerns not only the future, but the past – and the questions I ask myself in the present.

academiabutmakeitdiverse

animauxing

in your sunshine.

carry-on-my-wayward-butt

i dont actually know what a beat is

#uh #what's a beat #(I know what a beat is but I have a loose grasp of pacing)#writing #oops #I'm in this photo and I don't like it

welcometonightblogging

You know that meme where it’s one person waking up the other at, like, 3am to ask the other some really obscure question?

Both Cecil and Carlos are that person.

Just, the clock says 3:24am, and Cecil promptly headbutts Carlos’ chin as they’ve near simultaneously propped themselves up when they’ve heard the other moving.

“Ow- Do you- Do you think we can broadcast radio through teeth?”

“Why are people so sure horses exist?”

“Beca- Because, listen, if we find the frequency of Steve’s tee-”

#oh my god i love this #cecilos #accurate

blinkpen

characters that serve as externalizations of all your trauma and flaws and problems are all well and good but rebuilt confident characters that are the sort of person you want to be/would be if you were healthier and more secure in yourself are rad as well bc you will love them and have to get into their head to write them and if you genuinely aspire to self-improvement they will rub off you

blinkpen

in my personal experience, at least, it was never enough to simply torment my characters, and let them wallow in that misery - it can provide catharsis, this is true, but it’s a relief that often proves temporary. the bad feelings are let out in that moment, but inevitably, i’d have to go back and do it again. there’s nothing wrong with vent art, but that is what it is - the blowing off of steam that’s built up, and still has a source inside.

i started to get real catharsis, lasting catharsis, when i decided it was less about projecting my pains onto these characters, and more about having them bounce back in the ways i wish i could have, to keep going on being awesome heroes despite the hell they went through, or were still going through. and to write that, i had to sit down, and think how they would think, puzzle the motivation they needed to do this, to achieve this, how they would get themselves to do this. and in time, i became more able to emulate the same tenacity i gave to them. and that is some good shit right there.

perringwrites

My characters are thought experiments. The experiment is happiness. People think I’m wise and introspective, but really I’ve just been writing for a while.

#writing #evoy