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The 2025 Gender Census is now open!

[ Link to survey ]

The 12th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 30th August 2025.

It’s short and easy, for most participants it takes 5 minutes or less.

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!

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.

If you can't wait for survey numbers, you can click here for a public spreadsheet of non-secret info with graphs as it comes in, updated manually a few times per day.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

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The animators at Titmouse learning about Molly’s coat and tattoos

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We used to dunk on people asking random users on here questions they could’ve googled but now that every single google search gives you an AI generated response it’s actually better for the environment to just ask a random tumblr user and see what they have to say.

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this is, as the kids say, frying me (a glasses wearer)

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just remember, one day you're going to open tumblr and the crabs will be raving like they never have before

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not to sound like a weak, morally impure centrist over here, but i think online leftist communities need to be a little more accepting of the concept that most people are just. not that well informed. we live in a society that provides access to an overwhelming amount of information and yet which discourages actually diving into much beyond the surface level. Most of the people you meet out in the world are just not gonna know much about a lot of what you care about, but that's not the same as being against those things, or being unwilling to learn, or being unnamenable to those ideas. Our modern society is an unending cascade of information and misinformation and disinformation and filtering through that shit enough to actually have a solid grasp of a subject, let alone a nuanced antiestablishment political take, is a skill that takes time and effort to develop, time and effort that is in very short supply. It really bothers me when I see leftists talk about how capitalism keeps us down by taking up all our time and energy and making recovery, both physical and emotional, cost what little we can afford, and then turn around and get upset that people are politically uninformed. On some level, you gotta meet some people where they are, and have a little faith in them to be open to new ideas and information. Ignorance is not inherently intentional, and it's not the same as antipathy.

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Transportation

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the way right wing grifters hold the witcher as this aggresively antiwoke "masculine" media makes me lose my SHIT. the novels are incredibly open, especially for its time, and theres so much talk about politics, and also god forbid, identity politics!! aaah!

geralt is literally othered in many ways, hes this gross, gangly thing who people are revolted by and religious zealots scoff at as a monster. (hm!) he's incredibly masculine in the sense he fights monsters, yes, but his best friend is a flamboyant feminine man who he spends all his time philosophizing with. he's not this stoic "i feel nothing graaah!" guy, he pretends he is neutral in conflicts despite being sooo biased in so many ways. he pretends he doesnt feel then proceeds to feel so much.

characters like Milva and angouleme are female characters who are "strong" and "independant" the worst things that a right wing grifter can have in a media!! characters like yennefer are incredibly cruel and "bitchy" women (the trope of jealous, mean girlfriends that right wing grifters love) who are humanized and treated like people - yen is bitchy because she needs to be. thats the world she lives in as a female sorceress. ciri is literally the most important person in the world in the witcher so why is it a big deal shes the protagainst of tw4 when shes literally the chosen one-type character?!

elihal is a crossdresser. ciri is bisexual. geralt's best friend is gender non conforming. triss is at least bicurious, and phillipa is a fucking lesbian. queer/gnc people have existed in the witcher for the longest damn time, female characters have always been important, why is the witcher what right wing dudebro gamers latch onto. do they see geralt, big hulking man who claims "he doesnt feel emotion" and take him at his word. did they not play the games or read any of the books. how do you come out of the witcher 3 and still think its completely apolitical.

(not saying the witcher is wholly unproblematic and the peak of representation just saying its far from apolitical)

(also iirc Andrzej Sapkowski makes a joke or something about the law and justice party in poland being bad, which is a conservative party... i cannot add more to this but it is from a Wera analysis video about the newest book)

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English added by me :)

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oh…….i had a dream that a religious cult had taken over the city and was hunting me, but I had a little dog I found in the trash named BATHMAT and he looked like a USED MOP and I miss him so much. I want to go back to sleep

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booktok YA n smut is one of those things where it’s rly hard to criticize it publicly for serious things like misogyny or racism or homophobia n how it enforces capitalism bc 99.9% of the backlash is ppl proclaiming the death of literature is coming bc women like to read porn. like I hate this as well but I hate it for a better reason that these ppl do.

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