#gender variation

[queering-ecology]

This is a summary (and maybe slight critique) of LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer History—chapter 09. Sexual and Gender Diversity in Native America and the Pacific Islands by Will Roscoe.

This piece is interesting as the theme study was published by the National Park Foundation and the National Park Service. (Connections can be made to the history of parks as places of constructing heteromasculinity and heteronormativity as well as their role in colonialism, but also the historic presence of queerness in rural places. )

This chapter discusses the significant diversity in gender roles, sexualities and identities among the indigenous peoples of ‘the united states’ though in my writing I would refer to the land, at least when discussing the land prior to colonialism, as Turtle Island.

Two Spirits in Native Tradition: Roles, Genders, Identities and Diversity

Roscoe chooses to begin the story from the perspective of a French colonizer whose intentions were to claim land for the French in what is now called Florida. His party is lost and tired and is saved by a Native who was probably from the Timucua people (09-2). This person gave the colonizers water and was described as, “an Indian woman of tall stature, which also was an Hermaphrodite” and later he encountered another ‘hermaphrodite’ serving as an emissary of a Timucuan king.  

“The multiplicity of gender and sexuality among native peoples was noted as early as 1540 along the Colorado River by Alarcon, in the 1770s in Hawai’I by Cook’s third expedition and in the same decade by Russian explorers in Alaska” (09-3). By being noticed, these gender diverse people had become targets for colonial violence. Such as when in 1513, “Vasco Nunez de Balboa had forty-two spirits in Panama thrown to his dogs” (09-3). I want to pause and be genuinely horrified and to feel sorrow for these people whose ‘crime’ was being different from what the colonists in their fucked-up worldview, knew.

Hermaphrodite is a term that was used by Europeans and other colonists to describe native people they encountered who appeared to be crossing or mixing genders. For the Europeans from this time, the term hermaphrodite “could indicate intersexuality, androgyny, or homosexuality” (09-4). In reality, “the sheer diversity of Native American and Pacific Island cultures makes the use of any umbrella term problematic” (09-3).

But colonists did often use other terms such as ‘sodomites’ and berdache—the latter of which became a ‘frontier’ term (used between colonists and Natives) to identify a social role among various tribes (09-4). The actual origins of the term linguistically are quite old but are not Native and was largely defined as a “younger or subordinate partner in a male homosexual relationship” (09-4).

#queer history #transphobia #erotophobia #colonialism #Timucua #two-spirits / #gender variation #social construction of gender #heteronormativity #queer theory

[incorrect-quote-directory]

#incorrect quotes #80% water #20% pizza #100% swag #thats 200% #im twice the man you'll ever be #gender variation #quote source #tumblr #wish i could find the original post #but it looks like both accounts deactivated

[muffinlance]

I was rereading fellow prisoner li and I had an idea

Canon divergence au where instead of anyone doing feminism at the north pole aang accidentally panics and says trans rights

Aka instead of giving them any time to regroup and plan, aang's mouth moves faster than his brain and when they say "girls learn healing boys learn combat" aang says "what about me?" and leans hard into the "avatar incarnation of all those who came before, polygender because I contain multitudes" thing. you can't sexism me I have all the sexes, they're ghosts who give me god powers when I'm stressed out

I am now deeply in love with "AU where Aang goes 'Avatar State, yip yip!' and turns into Yangchen every time Pakku tries to drag him away from the healing huts".

#Kyoshi wanted to come out but she would have cut a bitch #bitch (gender neutral except where it makes Pakku feel emasculated) #Kuruk occasionally comes out to correct Pakku's stances #Not because they're wrong but because it's funny #Pakku: THAT WAS A VARIATION USED TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO IT IS IN NO WAY INNATELY SUPERIOR #Kuruk: oh you mean it's a cultural thing. like #Pakku: Don't say-- #Kuruk: like not teaching women #atla #avatar the last airbender

[addicted-to-12th-intro]

gender is soup

i am fork

#gender thoughts of today #i'll admit it's not my experience bc I do have a strong sense of gender. it's only a question of what the gender is #i just made this variation of the joke and liked it a lot so I'm posting it #nonbinary #genderqueer #genderflux #agender

[mxtxfanatic]

There’s something to be said about how gender is weaponized in tgcf. Like, the gods can transform between different physical genders, but their powers aren’t divided into “girl weak, boy strong.” Ling Wen is more powerful in her male form because her followers worship her as a male god. The Brocade Immortal forces her into her male form when she wears it not because that affords it more martial skill and power but because it can’t handle being pressed against the female form of the woman it loves. Shi Qingxuan is the opposite: his female form is more powerful because he is worshipped as a female god, and he enjoys that. The gods go between their forms depending on which one brings the most benefit, making gender into a weapon.

Then we have Xie Lian who, though never physically transforming into a female form, repeatedly and successfully uses people’s gender assumptions as a shield. He makes himself into a bride as to not use an innocent civilian as bait to catch a ghost, and he later disguises himself as a mother to hide from the crowd of cultivators. Because his enemies in both cases perceived women as weak and fragile, the ghost bride did not think to see if Xie Lian was a threat, and the cultivators were embarrassed at having barged in on a “defenseless woman” dressing with her “child.” The shield of “woman” allowed Xie Lian to fool his enemies and complete his goals in both cases.

Anyways, just thought this was cool.

#tgcf #human metas mxtx #i realized partway through that i have been using gender to also mean ‘sex’ #don’t mind me i just think that sex and gender are the same thing #there is no ‘biological sex’ when there are a thousand and one sex variations #and the only one that matters for ‘gender’ assignment is looking at genitalia #and even that fails commonly as a categorization #so sex is also a socially constructed divider #it’s just all gender #anyways: that’s it for my pseudo biosocial lesson

[wildflowercryptid]

finally sketched up the design for my smeargle evo, mastsmear, that i talked about a year ago!

#i wanna do a cleaner version of this at some point but i'm still gonna share this now #the design is heavily inspired by leonardo da vinci ( if they wasn't already obvious ) #the reason why it evolves at lvl 20 specifically is bc that's the age at which da vinici was considered a master by his guild #also there's no gender variation everyone gets a lil paint-covered moostash #game freak pls hire me to just make this lil guy a reality you can fire me immediately after that idc #pokemon #fakemon #fan evolution #smeargle #mastsmear #🎨 : mj draws

[canisalbus]

My aunt is very sensitive to strong scents (buys my deodorant so that we know it won't harm her, because other than a couple brands, they give her migraines, we don't have scented candles, and I have a couple of perfumes, but I never wear them), so we're super careful there, but we also can't go into some stores because the perfume counter is Right There. When we go shopping, she knows to look for me in the candle aisle because I'll stand there sniffing each candle and giving a review to whoever is with me at the time

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#sounds like we'd probably have good time sniffing candles together #answered #anonymous #yeah the perfume counter is a hell of it's own #I live in a relatively small city so I can only think of one single shop that has a dedicated perfume section #so at least those are easy for me to avoid personally #I used to hate perfumes because the only ones I ever had experiences with were the fruity floral candy smells marketed for women #and the obnoxious overbearing alpha man perfumes for men #there's a lot of variation and interesting combinations if you venture outside the highest selling most strongly gendered mainstream ones #I stubbornly kept testing various ones until I figured out what notes and types of scents I like #and I feel like I have established a pretty reliable pattern #but I understand it's not for everyone and I genuinely try my best to avoid offending people's noses #my favorite thing is to put some on in the evening after I've taken a shower but before I go to bed #just for myself to enjoy for a couple hours

[nitewrighter]

Punk Poll 2: The Re-Punkening

Once again, this isn't about which subgenre you think is the "correct" or "Most moral" one or even which one you'd like to live in the most, it's about which subgenre you find the most aesthetically pleasing/narratively interesting.

#And no I'm not including hopepunk bcause that concept's too fucking broad #steampunk #cyberpunk #silkpunk #dieselpunk #Casette Futurism #Biopunk #Atompunk #really i consider cassette futurism more of an aesthetic than a subgenre but *shrug* #clockpunk #it also took me a while to be convinced that clockpunk wasn't just a 'coal makes me sad' variation of steampunk #Nah it goes back earlier! #Too much of teslapunk falls either too far to steampunk or dieselpunk for me to consider it its own subgenre #but i didn't want to be like 'there are only two genders: steampunk or dieselpunk' #science fiction

[saintbleeding]

[ID: Digital art of Martin and Jon from TMA. Martin is a short, fat, white man with long brown hair in a low bun, wearing glasses and a rosy pink half-binder. Jon is a taller British-Indian man with grey hair tied back and a patchy beard. He has various different scars across his body and wears a mostly-unbuttoned short-sleeved green shirt. They are facing one another with fond smiles as Martin reaches to place a small bunch of forget-me-nots in Jon’s beard, which is already full of apple blossoms and yarrow flowers. In the side of his hair there is a dwarf sunflower, and in Martin’s there is another apple blossom. They are encircled in various flowers and plants (clockwise from top): yarrow, cornflower, apple blossoms on branches, ivy leaves, forget-me-nots, red salvia flowers, and dwarf sunflowers. Behind them a clear blue sky is faintly visible. End ID.]

firstly im not immune to choosing which flowers to draw based on dubious floriography resources. secondly. men in love. thank u

#the magnus archives #tma #jmart #jonmartin #jon sims #martin blackwood #just got rly emotional earlier today bc like. havin long hair and bein non op and wanting to wear pretty things? doesnt make u not a dude #and they. deserve to have fun. with their genders and in general. im right #my #saint draws #AND YES FROM THE SOURCE I LOOKED AT EVERY ONE OF THOSE FLOWERS IS. SO SCHMOOPY #variations on love fidelity gentleness affection etc. U get it

[noandpickles]

My list of demands for the next mass effect game:

1. LET US FUCK A KROGAN

2. he/him asari companion

thank you

#mass effect #there was a piece of ambient conversation in me:a where an asari ambassador #was explaining their species sex schema to an angaran delegation #and they said that most asari are genderless and use she/her pronouns as the default #but that like any species there is variation in gender #and that some asari use other pronouns instead #and i can think of nothing else #(nothing else but krogan balls that is)

[redditreceipts]

thoughts of intersex people on being used as a debate tactic by transgender people

intersex people face oppression because of their sexed bodies and therefore need to be included in feminist thought. For a long time, feminists have ignored the existence of intersex people, the political right sees being intersex as a disorder that needs "correction", and TRAs use intersex people as a tool to further their ideology.

in the intersex subreddit, I see A LOT of radfem talking points and critical thought. I really think that it is time for feminists to listen to intersex people and include them into our activism, because at this moment, the only people who even talk about intersex people are TRAs.

many intersex people are fed up with being used as a talking point, but apart from TRAs, there is no real alternative. intersex and radical feminist action have united goals:

rejection of beauty standards and practice of body neutrality

objection to surgical intervention on children for non-medical reasons

objection to oppression because of biological sex characteristics

material analysis instead of identity-based analysis

furthering research into bodies that are not those of men

#intersex #radfem #radical feminism #radblr #radical feminists do interact #radical feminists please touch #gender critical #feminism #intersex variations #intersex women #terfblr #gc feminism #gc feminist #gender abolition #radfems please touch #radfems please interact #radfem safe #transbian #listen to trans women #misogynist #reddit #transgender #male to female #trans

[incorrect-quote-directory]

Source: Drake and Josh

Person 1: Maybe I just like you!

Person 2: Maybe I just like you, too!

Person 1: Oh really?!

Person 2: Yeah, maybe I’ve liked you for a really long time but I didn’t realize it cause I hated you so much!

Person 1: Are you saying you like me or not? I’m saying I like you!

Person 2: Well, then I’m saying I like you!

Person 1: FINE! Then I guess we’re boyfriend and girlfriend!

Person 2: Fine! On one condition.

Person 2: I get to be the boyfriend!

#i get to be the boyfriend #i get to be the girlfriend #drake and josh #incorrect quotes #gender variation #if there's possibilites for changes in gendered terms #im using that tag #quote source

[dat-physics-boi]

Transphobes enforcing the gender binary be like:

#lgbtqia+ #crosspost from reddit #nonbinary #the gender binary #transgender #not everyone fits the mold #and even among those that do there's variation

[rapono-writes-stuff]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Lethal Company (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Bracken | Flower Man (Lethal Company) & Reader Characters: Reader, Bracken | Flower Man (Lethal Company), Employees (Lethal Company) Additional Tags: inspired by a tumblr post, Unusual monster behavior, Horror, somber, Hurt/Comfort, Giving Up, I'm back on my bullshit (positive), lethal company is not immune to my tropes, being hunted by the Bracken is terrifying and that's why I love them, ambiguous ending Summary:

You're alone in the abanonded darkness, aimlessly searching, when it finds you. There's hands around your neck, and you know there's no use in fighting them.

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*whips* 

Hey guess who's not dead (and went to therapy!)

#post #fanfic #fanfiction #ao3 #lethal company #lethal company fanfic #bracken #reader insert #gender neutral reader #comfort in monsters #here's something more akin to what I usually write (lol) #i'll post the scrapped scenes from it later today (probably) #(or tomorrow if I forget) #this fic is for hug enjoyers :) #the depression variation to the anxiety flavoured one I'll (hopefully) write later

[sunkern-plus]

not enbian as in "nonbinary as a singular third gender who presents androgynously/neutrally who desires other nonbinary people who do the same", but enbian as in "nonbinary person with a weird outherine xenine gender who loves the whole spectrum of nonbinary people"

#nblnb #nln #enbian #basically: all variations of nonbinary people are open to me (as long as youre 23+ years of age) #no matter if youre a gender hoarder with trillions and trillions of obscure genders you believe only you use #or if youre the stereotypical neutrois person with a stereotypically gender neutral presentatiom #or if youre a maverique pandrogyne with a deliberately fucky presentation #or if youre genderfuck/other political genders like anarchogender and display your nonbinariness through punk fashion and body mods #or if youre a nonbinary trans woman who feels alienated by the transfem community because youre butch or dont desire a slim feminine look #or if youre a nonbinary trans man and feel alienated from the trans man community because you want to look like a fat drag queen #basically: all nonbinary people all over this spectrum are. ahem. dating material to me #and thats not even the extent of all the kinds of nonbinary people im into bc nonbinary is a diverse experience

[daz4i]

skk is so t4t to me at this point i can't process them as anything else fr

#specifically the trans guy chuuya/nb dazai variation #op's blog is unfortunately deleted but that one post abt chuuya's story being like an allegory to being trans if you look for it #(like. being told you're one thing. believing you are smth else. fighting to prove it but eventually just accepting it is already enough) #and you know my approach to nb dazai (<- insane in an excited and passionate way) #like there's the gender neutral ''i'' and the princess thing and generally the whole vibe of having a ''weird'' identity #fhe neutrality and the separation from others. i feel you man (<- is projecting so much rn but it's ok. it's my blog 🧐) #i can't phrase it properly rn but. but yeah. you get me.