general terms for groups of multiple genders, now with flags
Several days ago, I made a set of terms for granular multigender terms (plus some terms for multigender-with-partial-genders). There are holes in it (near-entirely caused by my nerdy need to name each one after a real star system, sorry), but my hope is that it’ll be useful. Hopefully, it’ll be more useful with this set of flags I’ve finally finished making.
(A link to that first post- https://kizzyveshkriset.tumblr.com/post/623308668122939392/general-terms-for-groups-of-multiple-genders-by ).
(A link to the basic flag post- https://kizzyveshkriset.tumblr.com/post/623346642389811200/a-five-striped-pride-flag-blue-cyan-white )
The basic flag has already been posted, but its five stripes’ meanings are:
- Blue - gender fluidity, by way of reference to the genderfluid flag
- Cyan - xenogenders and other distinctly outside-the-norm genders, partly because stars can’t shine cyan (the proper color would simply be a lighter blue, which doesn’t work as nicely on a flag)
- White - lack of gender in all its forms, whether partial or complete
- Yellow - similar genders
- Red - contrasting genders
Some of its heritage is from prior multigender flags, one of which is from the deactivated @duwang-flags-inc and the other of which I cannot find a source for.
There are a total of eight colors for each flag’s star and seven types of star (the number of points per star matches the number of genders involved, except for two genders whose star is a thinner three-pointed star with the point facing down instead of up).
The star colors correspond to:
- Purple - genders of fairly similar proportion
- Orange - genders of varying proportion
- Lime Green - genders of fluctuating proportion
- Forest Green - gender(s) including agender, demigender, or otherwise “incomplete” gender components (by way of reference to the agender flag)
- Fuchsia - genders of varying proportion where two genders are more prominent than all others
- Indigo - genders of varying proportion where one gender is more prominent than all others
- Gray-Blue - genders of varying proportion opposite the “standard” assumption for their proportion (e.g. as modifier for “nanofem” or somesuch)
- Gray-Brown - gender(s) including obscured or confusing components
Most of these colors have a more tenuous connection to meaning- there are just very few colors that work with the already-established colors, so my apologies for that.
This post is already long enough, but the readmore with all the flags is incoming.... These flags are free for use and modification, though I would prefer that if they are modified that any resultant terms stick with the celestial theme (and, of course, I’d love to see your creations- feel free to @ me.)
Dualgender Flags
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with a thin purple three-pointed star atop it. ]
Spicic (Alpha Virginis)- When one has two genders of fairly similar proportions.
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with a thin orange three-pointed star atop it. ]
Siric (Alpha Canis Majoris): When one has two genders of varying proportions.
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with a thin lime green three-pointed star atop it. ]
Miric (Omicron Ceti): When one has two genders that fluctuate in proportion.
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with a thin forest green three-pointed star atop it. ]
Cygnic (Cygnus X-1): When one has either one or two genders, but a strong component of one’s gender identity is agender or demigender.
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with a thin gray-blue three-pointed star atop it. ]
Procyonic (Alpha Canis Minoris): See Siric, but the proportions are counter to the standard assumption (perhaps use in conjunction with “libragender”, unless there’s a counter term?)
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with a thin gray-brown three-pointed star atop it. ]
Almazic (Epsilon Aurigae): When one has two genders but one is confusing or obscured.
Trigender Flags
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with a purple three-pointed star atop it. ]
Gliesic (Gliese 667): When one has three genders of fairly similar proportion.
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with an orange three-pointed star atop it. ]
Fomalhic (Alpha Piscis Austrini): When one has three genders of varying proportion.
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with a lime green three-pointed star atop it. ]
Algolic (Beta Persei): When one has three to four genders that fluctuate in proportion.
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with a forest green three-pointed star atop it. ]
Quvidelic (QV Telescopii): When one has three to five genders with some components being agender or demigenders.
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with a fuchsia three-pointed star atop it. ]
Rigikenic (Alpha Centauri): When one has three genders, two of which are much more prominent than the third.
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with an indigo three-pointed star atop it. ]
Polaric (Alpha Ursae Minoris): When one has three genders, one of which is more prominent than the other two.
Four-gender Flags
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with a purple four-pointed star atop it. ]
Xitauric (Xi Tauri): When one has four genders of fairly similar proportion.
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with an orange four-pointed star atop it. ]
Mizaric (Zeta Ursae Majoris): When one has four genders of varying proportion.
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with a fuchsia four-pointed star atop it. ]
Capellic (Alpha Aurigae): When one has four genders, two of which are major and two of which are minor.
Five-gender flags
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with a purple five-pointed star atop it. ]
Dabihic (Beta Capricorni): When one has five genders of fairly similar proportion.
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with an orange five-pointed star atop it. ]
Mintakic (Delta Orionis): When one has five genders of varying proportion.
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with a lime green five-pointed star atop it. ]
Almachic (Gamma Andromedae): When one has five to six genders that fluctuate in proportion.
Six-gender Flags
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with a purple six-pointed star atop it. ]
Betucic (Beta Tucanae): When one has six genders of fairly similar proportion.
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with an orange six-pointed star atop it. ]
Castoric (Alpha Geminorum): When one has six genders of varying proportion .
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with a forest green six-pointed star atop it. ]
Sagatic (Sagittarius A*): When one has six or more genders with some components being agender or demigenders.
Seven-plus Gender Flags
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with a purple seven-pointed star atop it. ]
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with a purple eight-pointed star atop it. ]
Djabbanic (Nu Scorpii): When one has seven or more genders of fairly similar proportion.
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with an orange seven-pointed star atop it. ]
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with an orange eight-pointed star atop it. ]
Arcassic (AR cassiopeiae): When one has seven or more genders of varying proportion.
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with a lime green seven-pointed star atop it. ]
[ A five-striped pride flag- blue, cyan, white, yellow, red- with a lime green eight-pointed star atop it. ]
Trapezic (Trapezium cluster): When one has more than seven genders that fluctuate in proportion to each other, or if one has many genders of chaotic proportions.
A stunning NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the super-massive star Eta Carinae and the bipolar Homunculus Nebula that surrounds it.
Eta Carinae is a stellar system located about 8,000 light-years away in the direction of the Carina constellation. It is about 10 billion miles (16 billion kilometers) across, which is about the diameter of our solar system. It contains at least two stars, one of which is around 120 times bigger in mass than our Sun. The other one is about 30 times bigger in mass than our Sun. The smaller star orbits around the larger companion star.
Eta Carinae suffered a giant outburst in the past. The light from that event reached Earth in 1841, when it became one of the brightest stars in the southern sky. The explosion produced two huge, billowing lobes of gas and dust, and a large, thin equatorial disk, all moving outward at a speed of about 1.5 million miles per hour (2.4 million kilometers per hour).
The star-system is about four million times brighter than our Sun. A bipolar emission-nebula called "Homunculus Nebula" surrounds the star system. In future, the star-system may explode in a supernova or even a hypernova.
High resolution image (2,000 × 2,000 pixels; 1 MB): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/EtaCarinae.jpg
Astronomy picture credit: NASA, Nathan Smith (University of California, Berkeley).
