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valideity · 11 months
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The 2023 Gender Census is now open!
[ Link to survey ]
The 10th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 9th May 2023.
It’s short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.
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After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.
If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 40,000 responses last year.
Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com
The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.
For the curious, you can also spy on some graphs and demographic data for the incoming responses here.
Thank you so much!
[ Link to survey ]
Image credit: Avery at Tradescantia Hub
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valideity · 1 year
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stoked that my post made it to someone cool :””) thoughts on will & testament overall??
i’ve read all vigdis hjorth’s english translated books so far except ‘is mother dead?’ but i’m so excited for that ~ i absolutely love her stream-of-consciousness writing style (she’s definitely one of my favourite authors)
{side note: would love to talk books with u more ~ do u have a goodreads or storygraph? weeeeeeeeeeee}
pls see attached a bit of the intro to ‘the freezer door’ ~ mattilda bernstein sycamore which i ♡ and i hope u do also
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Omg first of all thanks!! And love that u have the Care Work url / explanation! That book looks really good, I’m excited to read it.
Just half way through the last chapter of Will and Testament. And because I’ve been listening to the audio book and falling asleep to it I feel like I haven’t fully experienced it.
I am really enjoying it though. I think the writing style is perfect for this narrative and she’s able to convey some very nuanced interpersonal stuff in a very clever way, without being explicit with it. The subtle humor in some bits is nice. The looping narrative and descriptions of how she feels is very relatable, she has a very good understanding of what it’s like to be grappling with and trying to live with such a life experience. Im also in a vaguely similar place in my recovery from the same kind of thing that happened to Bergljot and the book has given me useful new ways to think through some things.
I haven’t read any of her other books. You seem like quite a fan! Which one is ur fav?
And I don’t have good reads or anything. Would love to see yours tho! Is it linked somewhere?
Oh thanks for sharing this book! It looks darling ! Have u read please miss by grace laverly or Paul takes on the form of a mortal girl by Andrea lawlor?
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valideity · 1 year
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on being alive at the end of the world pt. 2:
an excerpt from chapter 5 of “Pure Colour” by Sheila Heti
Here we are, just living in the credits at the end of the movie. Everyone wants to see their name up on a screen. And whoever wants it is capable of putting it there. That is the work we are doing collectively now: just putting our names up on a screen. We have been given the technology for this one minor thing, here at the very end of the world, this one consolation, this booby prize.
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I would like to come back after my death and see—
What?
Whether my works were kept by humanity. Whether my art is being exhibited fifty, seventy-five, a hundred years from now.
So you want to return to earth to google yourself?
Yes. Immortality means googling yourself forever.
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valideity · 1 year
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on living during the end of the world:
excerpt from chapter 5 of “Pure Colour” by Sheila Heti
We lived suspended in a soup, a depression so narrow and so deep we didn’t even recognize we were feeling it. There was a horrible stasis in the air and our lives. We stood still in the stillness of time. It was like being in a plane that was slowly twirling to the ground. Did you look at the other people, or did you not look? Did you hold someone’s hand and tell them, I love you, even if you’d only just met? Or did you squeeze your eyes shut and think of your loved ones, or think about your past, or pray? We were scuttling between these strategies like little bugs—sometimes praying, sometimes squeezing our eyes shut, sometimes thinking about the past, and sometimes saying I love you to a person we’d only just met—as civilization twirled all the way down. And apparently all the water had plastic in it, even the safe water that came in plastic bottles.
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valideity · 1 year
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erika de casier—do my thing [music video]
★ let’s exchange personalised music recs ★ dm me on last.fm
&&& of course erika de casier is friends with smerz ☭
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valideity · 1 year
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erika de casier—no butterflies, no nothing [music video]
★ let’s exchange personalised music recs ★ dm me on last.fm
i love how much she just has fun revisiting early 2000s r&b sounds & archetypes but in a slightly-unserious & self-aware way that like the lyrics are authentic to what’s going on in her life but she’s recognising that it’s all kind of absurd anyways
or at least that’s what i get from it ~
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valideity · 1 year
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Smerz—Grand Piano [music video]
★ let’s exchange personalised music recs ★ [dm me on last.fm]
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valideity · 2 years
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Fran Drescher at the 1997 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards
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valideity · 2 years
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“Saturn Devouring His Son” (1819-1823) Francisco de Goya by = 。= : 2009-08-28 12:24 Info and original painting here
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valideity · 2 years
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Susan Sontag, from On Photography (excerpted from “Uses of Photography”, John Berger)
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Jean-Michel Basquiat preparing for his first London show at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), December 1984.
Photos by Peter Nicholls for The Times
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valideity · 2 years
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whenever i think about this i.
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“Strength comes from knowing” - Maori aimed HIV awareness poster, New Zealand, 1980s
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valideity · 2 years
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i wanna thank the onion
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valideity · 2 years
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understanding gender is definitely NOT a myth
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valideity · 2 years
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I think disabled people deserve high income for free forever with no strings attached and I’m not kidding
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