#feminon

[feminon]

I was bored so made a feminon symbol + agender girl symbol

Combining the Venus and Null sign, to signify the absence of traditional binary gender with the paradoxical alignment of womanhood, the astrological sign associated w the societal concept of “women” and “feminine” along with the Null Set, The Empty Set, The Void Set, defined simply by its lack of elements, the size of which is always zero.

Feminine + Nothing = Feminon

Some varieties under the cut.

These are nowhere near crisp and perfect but it was fun making them! Anyone who identifies as an agender girl or similar feel free to use with credit.

Pls don’t ask me to make aroace spectrum feminon symbols - while I’m aroace I don’t see my gender as interacting with that aspect of my identity and making feminon ace symbols would be about as useful as making polyamorous/vegan/kink feminon symbols. I’ve made orientation+intersex variants simply because those are aspects tht I find relevant to my gender.

Lesbian

Gay/Pride

Bi

Pansexual

Trans

Non-Binary

Agender

Intersex (Older Variant)

Intersex (2013 OIIA variant)

[feminon]

I realize I use feminon/feminone alot without actually having an explanation for what it means so I thought I’d try and put it into as concrete words as I’m capable. This is rly self-indulgent and probably liable to change but its taken me a lot to feel comfortable relating to my gender in a way tht I can actually talk abt i guess

Feminon/feminone is term I coined for funsies to describe a trans/nonbinary identity that revolves around the lack of, rejection of or nullification of conventional and binary gender in relation to oneself, but that is also to at least some extent woman aligned.

Gendered terms and being associated with the conventional definition of “female” makes me extremely uncomfortable, and I want to be as far removed from the concept of rigid gender as possible. But the general concept of reclaiming womanhood as something much more expansive and separate than what it is defined as in human society is also very important and empowering to me.

What’s this mogai bullshit? Its just a word! I’m not claiming any sort of special recognition or representation as a separate marginalized identity. Its literally just a word I made up to describe how I feel about my gender. Also its just fun. Got great wordplay (feminine+nothing), can be spelled TWO whole ways, and its like there’s a lack of gender there but its girl-shaped. Girls own the void fuckers. (Also after a quick google search apparently feminone is a type of synthetic estrogen....o yea its trans babey)

How do you reject binary gender if you align with womanhood? Binary gender is tied up into both biological and societal essentialism - the idea that in order to be what is conventionally known as “Woman” you must fulfil not only certain biological criteria, but also societal ones in terms of your roles (what you are expected to do and be) and agency (what you are capable of doing and being) in relation to men. There are many ways of rejecting or redefining these and still identifying with womanhood, because they aren’t inherently based in any truth.

So isn’t your identity just a rejection of gender roles? Aren’t you just a gnc cis woman?

Nope ! Although rejecting the gender binary does not inherently make one trans, I am very much not cis. Its the difference between going “My assigned gender is my gender, but I don’t adhere to convention regarding it” versus “My assigned gender does not suit me in any way, I’m defining my own.”

The way I relate to my gender is in no way connected to my assigned gender, I experience dysphoria, and my physical characteristics differ from what is considered typical to the gender I was assigned. (Note: having dysphoria is not a prerequisite for being trans, and being intersex does not automatically make one trans/non-cis but these are both characteristics of myself that have contributed to how I define my gender).

Ok so if you don’t ID with your assigned gender at all then where does the womanhood/girlhood bit come in?

Because I feel a connection to womanhood/girlhood as a Concept that can be defined in ways that are way beyond just what society has defined it as, both in terms of spiritual association with womanhood and the idea of womanhood as an identity that transcends human definitions of gender. And in terms of how I’m marginalized, I’m aligned with womanhood.

So why not just identify as agender? Or just as a nb girl/demigirl?

I did originally - but I don’t feel like I don’t possess a gender entirely, I just feel like my gender is outside of conventional gender, and is specifically shaped by the rejection of the human definition of it. While I do sometimes describe myself as a nb girl, I am mostly uncomfortable with using gendered terms to describe myself. Same goes for other terms that could vaguely describe similar, like xenogender or agender. Its basically none gender with left girl.

Basically bottom line, its a fun word used to describe an expansive identity that is inherently non-cis and rejecting of the gender binary while personally redefining what “female”/”woman”/”girl” means, and I’m cool if other people find it relatable as a term to describe themselves as well. I just needed a word that summed up my feeling of “I’m sort of a woman I guess, but let’s not call me that.” and my feeling of reclaiming and redefining what it means to be fem-aligned in a way that empowers me.

Some notes tho this is, absolutely not for cis women, is inclusive of trans women, and uh? Don’t make a male equivalent? Its an identity specifically shaped by being trans and redefining what it means to be aligned with womanhood and rejecting the rigid gender binary that marginalizes people who are aligned with womanhood in some way shape or form. Also masculacking really doesn’t have the same ring to it.

[feminon]

They believed that the skin can see. That the skin that we have on our body, it can see, and feel. Light, love, warmth, coming toward it. Anger, coming toward it. And they said that, when you take a woman out of her skin, and ask her to be something different than she really is, you literally blind her. You literally put out her eyes. Her thousands of eyes that are all over her body.

The Joyous Body: Myths and Stories of the Wise Woman Archetype (Dangerous Old Woman) by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD

[feminon]

The point of being a woman is to not eat drink and be merry, if you want to be a real person, a real woman, you would eat drink and be scary. What it means is that, you be as you are. And some people will find that hopefully frightening.

Aunt Edna, The Joyous Body: Myths and Stories of the Wise Woman Archetype (Dangerous Old Woman) by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD