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The "A" in LGBTQIA+ stands for all "A" identities, such as Aromantic, Asexual, Agender, and also Androgyne!

As nobody seems to know / nobody (almost) ever mention us as a part of the acronym, I will for everyone.

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Androgyne -> gender identity (can have any gender presentation)

Androgynous -> gender presentation (can have any gender identity)

not all androgynes are androgynous and not every person who presents androgynous is androgyne

gender≠presentation

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The Necker Cube: a symbol for the androgyne community

The Necker cube is a bidimensional optical illusion first published in 1832 by Louis Albert Necker. It's particular because the person who observes this cube has no clue of the "real" direction of the image, as it can be both concave and convex based on how you look at it, giving us a multistable perception of it.

Cameron Reed in 1996 has first proposed the Necker Cube as a symbol for the androgyne community, since the ambiguity of this cube can be found in androgyny (physical, mental, or both).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

What is the necker cube:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necker_cube

A symbol for the androgyne community:

Who is Cameron Reed:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Reed

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I'm pretty sure that everyone knows these emojis, since they've been around for a few years now and are used daily.

But, despite that, a lot of folks seem to don't know the use they were created for.

This because those emojis are commonly known as "non-binary emojis" which is clearly wrong and dangerous to say, as it goes against all of the ideals for which we fight as a community. This because it seems to imply that all non-binary people are androgynous, or all men are masculine, and that all women are feminine, but it's a fact that this isn't the case.

Even when I was looking for example images to include in this post, I found more results by searching for photos as "non-binary emojis"

But the truth is, that these are simply gender neutral/androgynous emojis, and so they don't have a predestined target users. Emojis are here to help everyone to express their emotions, actions etc. with the help of colored icons that they feel best represent their person and what they are trying to say and/or represent. So even the conventionally known emojis of "man" and "woman" aren't really gendered at all. Everyone regardless of their actual gender can use any set of emoji, whether they are used to better represent how they appear irl <-[in real life]<- (conventionally masculine/feminine/androgynous), or whether they are used to represent how they really see and feel themselves, regardless of their physical appearance.

for example:

If you are a masculine woman and use the "mens" emoji set you're not saying that you're a man, you could just use them to represent your special connection to masculinity or to better represent yourself;

vice-versa if you're a feminine man you can do the same with the "womens" emoji set;

if a feminine or masculine non-binary person use the "binary" emojis sets they're not saying that they're no longer non-binary.

This could continue forever with all the most varied examples, just as we humans are not divided into three binaries, therefore neither are the emojis we use.

As well as pronouns, clothing, colors, activities, personal tastes, etc. are a matter of preference, also emojis are.

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Happy New Year!🎉

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Would it be correct to say “I am an androgyne” or is it more like nonbinary in the sense that you should add the word “person” after that?

Since English is not my first language, I don't exactly know if this could be a typo or not. As I think that this could work in the same way someone would say "I'm a girl/boy", I don't see the problem with saying "I'm an androgyne", but "I'm an androgyne person" I'm almost sure is incorrect to say, as it seems like "androgyne" is describing one physical trait like "I'm a white person", and that's also the reason why saying "I'm an androgynous person" for example is correct because it describes your physical appearence, not your gender.

What about if you try to say: "I'm androgyne" instead? :)

If anyone knows the answer better than me is free to reply this post!

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Hey, I made a subreddit for androgyne in general and I wanting to get a boost for it. I completely understand if you don’t do promos and delete this, but here it the link of you are interested https://www.reddit.com/r/Androgyne/

Hi! Sorry for the late response, I was quite inactive. I'll surely help you to boost your subreddit as I'm happy to see other people building online spaces for the androgyne community. So if you want to, go check out this cool subreddit folks!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Androgyne

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GENDER SYMBOLS

[image description : on the right the female gender symbol, colored with the traditional color associated to women, pink. On the right the male gender symbol, with the traditional color associated to men, blue. In the middle there is the androgyne symbol, obtained from a fusion of the two, it's purple, a color obtained mixing pink and blue, and this represents both at the same time or neutrality]

Today we talk about symbols! Why these exists? From where or what are they born?

The origin of the female and male symbol dates back to the Mesopotamian era, where the first astronomers who observed the sky had decided to associate the planet Mars to the God of fire and war, and in fact the male symbol would represent a spear (the oblique arrow) with an shield (the circle). While the female symbol has been associated with the planet Venus, and with the Goddess of beauty and love. The female symbol represents a portable mirror (the circle) with a handle to hold it (the cross below). These symbols were not originally created to indicate the gender or sex of a person, this type of usage dates back at least in the Renaissance. These glyphs could be associated with the stereotypes of society regarding the two binary genders (or from the generally more marked traits of them, and generally associated with masculinity and femininity): the strong and warrior male, the beautiful and sentimental female, in short. The androgynous symbol instead combines the meaning of what are, taken individually, the essences of male and female, just to indicate how androgynes in fact feel both ways or feel in some way that they possess both traits or that they are somewhere between them, the whole point of androgyny itself is rejecting gender roles and broke up the stereotypes.

I personally think about this as a symbol that simply means freedom, the freedom for ALL people to be what they want to be; whether this means being the opposite of what it was supposed for them to be, or being both, or sometimes being one and sometimes the other, or being neither at all, understood both as a gender expression and as gender identity. Women can be strong, men can be romantic, nonbinary people don't have to be androgynous if they don't want to, and so on. It's not a matter of biological sex or gender, but what a person want to be.

Let's break gender roles, let's break stereotypes.

[P.S: the explanation on the meaning, use, and history of gender symbols is very summarized and only the parts that had to do with the speech that were made were chosen. If you want to know more about the subject, search on the internet to find everything there is to know about it.]

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SUBSETS OF ANDROGYNE!

Androgyne can be used as a label itself, but it's also an umbrella term!

In fact, there are some micro-labels that fall under this umbrella, and they are used by some people to better describe their androgyne identity.

We can find:

Femandrogyne: an androgyne person that feels more feminine than masculine;

Mascandrogyne: the opposite, androgyne that feels more masculine than feminine;

Neutrandrogyne: an androgyne with equal amounts of masculinity and femininity, and/or simply neutral;

Versandrogyne: an androgyne with amounts of femininity and masculinity that fluctuate, for example they could go between femandrogyne and mascandrogyne;

Demiandrogyne: an androgyne who relates partially, but not fully, to the androgyne experience (this term is also under the demigender umbrella).

Remember that you don't have to use these terms if you don't want to. For example a versandrogyne could choose to use just the term androgyne for themselves, and that's okay.

And also, you don't have to be only androgyne! You could go with all the labels that seems to fit you, not androgyne (or other identity/ies) exclusively! You could use cisgender, transgender, non-binary, bigender, genderfluid... also xenogenders! Don't limit yourself, language is here to express who you are! (and if you don't want to label yourself at all, that's also okay!)

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Sorry for the inactivity guys!

Don't worry I'm still alive and posting again soon!

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FLAGS

Let's talk about flags! As with all other parts of the LGBTQIA+, also for Androgyne there are a lot of pride flags. Some of them have meanings that are known, for others they are not known, but let's go step by step:

The aesthetics of my blog, and even my posts themselves, contain colors taken from or photos of this flag. This why? Because This is the official androgyne pride flag, or the most used / common / known, and also for more practical reasons I decided to base the aesthetic part of this blog on this flag, so that those who chew the topic or already know about it, can immediately catch the eye through the vision of these classic colors.

The pink means femininity, the light blue masculinity, and the purple a mix of them both, you can probably understand it even without explanations, and this is precisely the beauty of this flag: it is easy to understand, simple, symbolic.

(Fun fuct, that's also how I found out about androgyne! I had only seen a photo of the flag with the name of the gender it represents in description, and I had understood everything even before informing myself about it)

Perhaps some of you will think that colors are very stereotyped, and if this is partly true, on the other hand androgyny as identity and movement aims to break gender roles and the suffocating binary system, taking both or completely denying them.

This is the most known alternative of the original flag. The red means woman, the blue man, the purple a mix of the two, but there is also the yellow that represent nonbinary-ness and grey for neutrality.

Also this is a very common alternative, and my favorite for the meaning.

The black and the white stand for the fact that androgyne could be more binary than other identities, the pink is the femininity (understood as gender or aesthetically) the light blue is masculinity (again with gender-meaning or aesthetically) and they are divided from the purple, that is a comfortable blending of the two that made up the unique identity of androgynes.

This is very particular! And it brokes the pink-purple-blue system. In fact it is less known that the orange is a color that means masculinity, and purple can mean femininity, despite to being used as a symbol of the mix between the two binary genders.

In the middle we have white, that means the absence of gender (like the nonbinary and the genderqueer flags), with the Necker Cube, an optical illusion symbol of the androgyne community, because it is concave or convex based on how you look at it.

I really love the stripes of this flag!

The dark blue stripe means masculinity, the light blue stripe means community, the purple stripe androgyne identity, the light pink represents love, and finally the dark pink represents femininity.

Here we have green, that is a gender neutral color, that represents the androgyny achieved through the negation of masculine and feminine caracteristics. But we have also the purple, which represents androgyny obtained instead from the combination of masculinity and femininity caracteristics. Purple and green are also complementary colors and they symbolizes the fact that the androgyne is an identity that is both masculine and feminine, but also a gender on its own.

FOLLOWING THE FLAGS THAT DON'T HAVE A CERTAIN MEANING:

For me it's not a big deal anyway, I believe that the colors speak by their own ^-^

OUTDATED FLAGS:

The meaning is a little bit uncertin but it's believed that grey represents neutrality/outside the binary and the two stripes represent the equality of the two genders

AND NOW:

It's up to you to choose the flag that fits your experience best :)

What's your favorite flag?

SOURCE:

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Happy Androgyne Pride Day to everyone!🏳️‍🌈🎉

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i'm genderfluid and am androgyne a lot

And that's okay! I personally identify as both androgyne and genderfluid, because the one is my "gender base" but I can also experience other genders or combinations of genders. And it's okay to be phisically or present androgynous if you are genderfluid too! The most important thing is to be ourselves ^-^

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Hey folks! Stay tuned, I'll post tomorrow :)

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Welcome to Androgyne Culture Is!

Hello everyone!

ABOUT ME: I'm Syde (spelled like the word "side"), I go by any pronouns [he/she/they] and I'm an adult. I use both androgyne and nonbinary gender labels :)

I'm so excited about this! I've never blogged before, so excuse me in advance if my posts aren't perfect at first!

To start I tell you that English is not my first language, so if you see any typos forgive me!

I started this blog to dedicate it to my gender identity, since I identify myself as androgyne, [<-tap the word for more info!] and I have not found any other blog that talks about it, but only posts isolated from the themes of the various accounts, or posts from people who use this term directly, so my job is to bring them all together here!

What will the blog be about specifically?

-I will explain what it means to be androgyne and androgynous;

-I will talk about everything about this specific gender identity;

-As this is another x-culture-is blog, all of you can express yourselves about it based on your own experiences;

-If you have any questions, because maybe you are questioning or something else, I will try to answer to help you;

-I will also reblog anything that is or that I may found related to the androgyne gender experience and hopefully help to highlight other creators posts about it.

This is a safe space for the whole lgbtq+ community: no one is left out and everyone is welcomed here, whether you are androgyne or just curious about it.

Don't expect posts about other topics as this is a very specific blog

DNI (DO NOT INTERACT IF) you are:

-Homo / les / bi / a / trans / phobic, or any type of queerphobic in general;

-Exclusionists;

-Terfs;

-Transmed;

-Racists;

-Nazists;

-Pedophiles;

-Misogynists;

-Mysandrists;

-If you are looking for qualified help: I ​​can only give you advice or answers based on my personal experience and what I know about it, I can't go beyond that unfortunately;

-Looking for sex chat or other NSFW stuff: You'll be blocked + Tumblr isn't the right place for that, there are a lot of minors here! I want to keep it safe for everyone;

-Any kind of hatred or closed-mindedness in general will not be tolerated. (Even if you could not understand everything, you can still respect that!)

If any of these dni criteria will not be respected, simply the subjects in question will be blocked and reported.

THANKS FOR READING, ENJOY YOUR STAY! ^-^

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