I hate that there's no room for nonbinary people in media. When a character's gender is "ambiguous" (neither seen as masculine nor feminine) and solely referred to with neutral terms such as "they/them" and person, individual, etc, people can't stand that. They can't stand the idea that a nonbinary person wouldn't want to be a boy or girl, isn't a boy or a girl. They have to be a girlthing or a boything (why are all nonbinary people things? Why is it never girlenby or boyenby?), they have to be transfem or transmasc. When they're put into relationships, they have to be either lesbian or gay. Nobody can be cenelian or enbian or diamoric or gai or strayt or trixic or toric. That doesn't exist.
I'm sick of it. I'm sick of seeing nonbinarity be shoved into category after category after category when the whole point of being nonbinary is that we want to opt out.
Make a habit to mix up the pronouns for those who use any+ pronouns btw. Make a habit to use people's neopronouns because most people won't. Make a habit to refer to your friends, loved ones, acquaintances, anyone you know that has 'weird' genders with the particular gendered terms for those genders, even if they're obscure. I promise you you will be making a nonbinary/abinary/genderqueer/etc. individual's day
The subculture and identity (like amatopunk, for example) that staunchly rejects, fights against, and directly opposes exorsexism and binarism. It's about redefining gender, abolishing the sex and gender arities, and being loudly supportive of nonbinarity. It is for nonbinary and anonbinary folks, but it is not exclusive to them; in fact, it is encouraged that binary people be exorpunk.
Some other topics exorpunk is about:
Recognizing gender, especially nonbinarity, as a spectrum
Rejecting bioessentialism, gender essentialism, and the idea that male and female/masculinity and femininity are opposities
Rejecting transmedicalism, truscum, and embracing the many ways of transitioning as a nonbinary person
Opposing the idea that gender qualities (such as masculinity, femininity, neutrality, etc) go hand-in-hand with gender, as this is used to uphold the western binary
Abolishing exorsexism, binarism, gender arity, and sex arity
Opposing labels that sort people into gender arities, as well as the people who sort us
Not only adopting, but popularizing, nonbinary (societal-wise and gender-wise) and neutral alternatives to binary sayings and labels
Uplifting and learning about the (gender) identities of POC which don't fit into the western binary
Fighting colonialist and western ideas of queerness and gender, especially when they're pushed onto marginalized cultures and awestern identities
Uplifting intersex people, who are often the targets of exorsexism (alongside intersexism, of course)
Supporting nonbinary people, encouraging them to be loud about their identity
Flag meaning:
Black: Lives lost due to transphobia, exorsexism, binarism, and intersexism; the struggles that those outside of gender and sex arity face
Blue: Activism, education, and freedom
Green: Awestern gender identities and gender identities of poc that dont fall under the western binary
Deep Yellow: Joy, encouragement, positivity; intersexness and allyship towards intersex people
White: A color often used in flags to represent nonbinarity and community alike
Symbols are self-explanatory.
Here are alternative flags for those who focus on how exorsexism affects intersex people and POC/awestern folks. The exorpunk flag is already inclusive of them, so this isn't to single them out. Instead, it's for those who want to highlight the fact they combat these sides of the issue. I am white and perisex, but I had my intersex and POC friends give input on these.
@radiomogai @genderaverse @halosmic
Glossary:
Anonbinary: "A gender that definitely isn’t binary, but is still even outside of nonbinary." source (link)
Awestern: Identities that are completely outside of the western concepts/understandings of binary and queer. Could also be identities that predate western influence and colonialism and the ideals that came along with that (coined by Glinda of @emailmeurheart on Discord, so no source.)
Binarism: I cannot find a good source on the definition I'm using. However, binarism generally refers to the western binary being enforced on colonialized peoples and awestern individuals.
Exorsexism: "Discrimination against non-binary, intersex, and altersex individuals, as well as against individuals with gender modalities other than cis and trans." source (link)
Gender arity: "It categorizes gender [systems] based on the number of established/existing gender categories within one's experience or within a given culture. The most well known gender arity is the Western gender binary." source (link)
