#glossaries

[chemicalarospec]

Hot take but glossaries should be at the FRONT OF THE FKING BOOK SO I KNOW THEY FREAKING EXIST

[herenya-sedai]

maybe it’s an accent thing but it definitely sounds to me more like they’re saying more-RAIN, not mwah-RAIN 

and I had a moment of “Have I been saying her name wrong all these years???” But this is the glossary.

(anyway, MORE RAIN is fine, I’ve sometimes called her that myself, I’m just pleased that I hadn’t misremembered)

[woman-loving]

While it’s not really significant to how bisexuality can be understood, a lot of the current difficulty with “correctly” defining bisexuality is probably because the most obvious (and undoubtedly intended) interpretation of the construction ‘two-sexual’ would relate to “both men and women” or “two sexes(genders),” but that’s outmoded. I feel like it might be beneficial for introductory explanations of “bisexuality” to at least acknowledge this, while also describing the variety of ways people might envision its meaning and that it’s not necessary to stick to a strict, literal reading.

I will also say, though, that I think LGBTQ glossaries (that most basic of “resources” intended to help both cis straight people and those recently out or questioning) can actually do a disservice by simplifying the richness of our identities (the internal debates, developments, alternate understandings, complexities, intersections) into one-line soundbites. Not only that, but I think the expansive LGBTQ ones also promote standardization across terms, so that all terms are defined by the same variable (usually attraction) and potential overlap is reduced. I hope people understand that every glossary is an assertion of authoritative knowledge. Their compilation involves discarding some understandings in favor of others, and these selections tend to be based on one of multiple possible understandings of sexuality and identity, so that some worldviews but not others are reflected.

I think this may also help inform the conflict over “MOGAI” (and stereotyped ace/aro) approaches to identity. I feel like “MOGAI” is most associated with glossary blogs proposing many specialized identities. Specialized identities aren’t necessarily bad, but some (often including myself) find the imagined norm against which they are defined to be unrealistic, restricting, or insulting. There can also be a naturalizing effect in defining experiences as “sexual orientations,” which often suggests objectivity, social neutrality, and innateness. (An observation that applies to wider LGBTQ uses of “sexual orientation” as well.) Combined with technical-sounding formula of identity term constructions, the proliferation of specialized terms can appear to represent a more complete, updated, and “accurate” accumulation of knowledge compared to sources that omit them, putting other approaches on the defensive.

For critics, the acronym “MOGAI” also seems to represent an unwanted assimilation into a universalizing, generic category, and an approach to sexuality and identity that prioritizes that framing at the expense of other groupings or focuses. The pretensions to universal inclusivity through generic language could have potentially helped position it as more neutral and up-to-date than alternatives like “LGBTQ,” although it did not end up being successfully adopted on a large scale. “Queer” works in a similar way, though, and people have been more successful at positioning it as more culturally neutral and universally inclusive than alternatives, even though none of these categories (including LGBT/LGBTQ) actually are. They all represent some but not all possible approaches to phenomena we’re attempting to organize and name.

[nonbinaryresource]

hi, so i've been questioning my gender again recently and i feel like i'm a girl, not exacltly boy more like boy adjacent, and like i'm agender at the same time. they just fight against each other and one "wins" and that's how i present myself that day. i haven't found a word i really like that describes this, i've only heard of ambonec (which i was told was if you id as man, woman, and genderless all at once) and i don't think that's right for me

Here are a few glossaries you can utilize to help find a microlabel:

http://genderfluidsupport.tumblr.com/genderhttp://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Gender_Identitieshttps://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/Main_Page

There’s also a bunch of blogs like @beyond-mogai-pride-flags​, @genderlist​, @imoga-pride​, and @variant-archive​ that are meant to help collect labels and be lexicon/pride resources.

You can utilize the search feature to help narrow down your search. ^^

The terms that immediately came to mind for me when I read your ask were: nonbinary, trigender, polygender, and genderflux. As for the boy adjacent part of your gender, you might be interested in the term proxvir.

Please note that there’s no rules as to how you have to label. You can choose:

One label

Multiple labels

Together/at the same time

Fluctuating/at different times

An umbrella/general term

A microlabel(s)

A microlabel(s) and umbrella term

A label that you have specially created to describe your experience/identity

No label whatsoever

Questioning as a label

I’m sorry this probably isn’t what you were hoping for, but no one can determine the right term(s) for you except you. Also, there is not always some magical ‘aha!’ revelation moment. Sometimes it takes some time to settle on a term. It took me a matter of years to come to accept that I was nonbinary and be totally comfortable thinking of myself as such. I spent months searching for the perfect term before accepting it was overwhelming me, backing off, and just sitting with nonbinary for a while. There wasn’t a time when the pieces just fell together at the same time or when the heavens opened up and sang to me. I grew into the terms. I fell into love with them, very, very slowly. The only sudden thing was realizing, years later, that I had actually, at some point I hadn’t even known, accepted I was nonbinary and that the term nonbinary felt right for me.

I hope this helped, and good luck finding a term you like!

~Tera

[nonbinaryresource]

hey. so i've been thinking about my gender a lot recently and i've been identifying as an agender demiboy, but I don't feel like that works. Like, it fits completely, cause I'm agender and a guy/masculine, but I hate being considered "male-lite". I was wondering if any of you/your followers knew of any list of masc nonbinary genders or any list of gender seperate by masc/fem/unaligned/etc so I could look through some labels? Or if any of you knew any labels that could also work?

I don’t know of a glossary organized in this manner, unfortunately, but that would be very useful to look through! My trick for looking through glossaries is just to use the browser’s find function and hit common, relative terms like: boy, man, and masc, and just focus on the identities with my keyword.

You could just drop the demi and go by agender man as another option, though! But also, try not to let yourself get pulled down by anybody who’s going to describe you as something like “male-lite”. 

~Tera

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