rabid pride/rabies pride/rabiosexual/rabiespunk: a movement for neurodivergent trans people, who are often not taken seriously due to things they were born with and can’t control, to reclaim the fact that they are seen/treated as animals, contagious, diseased, etc. and to embrace their ‘feral’/’rabid’ characteristics. those who consider themselves rabid accept that they and other rabid folks are hyper, loud, open about their gender and neurotype, or otherwise ‘too much’ for cis neurotypicals. overall, this movement is focused on accepting oneself, finding others like you, and agreeing that no neurodivergent trans person should have to act ‘normal’ or hide their identity and symptoms to be perfect and proud.
here’s my rabies flag design! i’m definitely open to criticism, since i’m not 100% sure if i’m happy with it. you can check out this post to get a link to the original coiner’s description of rabies pride (and a discussion on how it was turned into a meme and completely divorced from its original meaning) - after learning this information, i decided to make this flag for myself and anyone else who wants to reclaim rabies pride!
i’m proposing the term rabiespunk to distinguish this term from rabies in general and to match with many other terms related to reclamation of queer and neurodivergent identities/stereotypes (such as voidpunk, amatopunk, and trenderpunk)! rabiosexual causes a lot of confusion, which is why i prefer not to use it for myself and wanted another term, but it’s up to you whether you prefer to use rabid, rabiosexual, or rabiespunk!
the colors all have multiple meanings, and most of the meanings are linked to meanings of other stripes, so i’m going to describe them in sets:
blue, pink, and yellow all represent the trans aspect of rabies pride (blue for male/masc/etc. trans people, pink for female/fem/etc. trans people, yellow for nonbinary/neutral/etc. trans people)
red, pink, and yellow all represent actual rabies (red for blood, pink and yellow to represent someone foaming at the mouth)
blue, green, and brown represent nature, both because rabid animals come from nature and to represent that neurodivergencies and trans identities are natural (blue for the sky, green for plants, brown for dirt and fur)
green, red, and yellow all represent the neurodivergent aspect of rabies pride (red comes directly from my neurodivergent flag, green and yellow are different shades in this flag but are also featured in that flag, and you can check that link to see their meanings in the nd flag)
brown also represents neurodivergent trans people of color, as they’re subject to more frequent and more dangerous stereotypes, and thus their experience of rabies pride may distinctly feature a reclamation of that. the specific shade of brown i used is a blend of the black and brown stripes from the philadelphia pride flag.
