#Māhū

[celluloidrainbow]

A PLACE IN THE MIDDLE (2014) dir. Joe Wilson & Dean Hamer Eleven year old Ho'onani dreams of leading the hula troupe at her inner-city Honolulu school. The only trouble is that the group is just for boys. She's fortunate that her teacher understands first-hand what it's like to be 'in the middle' - the ancient Hawaiian tradition of embracing both male and female spirit. Together they set out to prove that what matters most is to be true to yourself. (link in title)

[crossdreamers]

Honolulu's Glade Nightclub was an important meeting place for trans people in the 1960s

Mitchell Kuga has written an interesting article about the 1960s meeting place for Honolulu's Māhū and transgender community:

Remembering the 1960s Bar That Became a Refuge for Honolulu's Māhū Community

Here are some of the main points:

Historical Significance: The Glade nightclub in Honolulu’s Red Light District became a refuge for the māhū community in the 1960s, offering a space for gender fluid performers amidst widespread persecution.

Cultural Impact: The “Boys Will Be Girls Revue” was a groundbreaking show that ran for 17 years, attracting diverse audiences and helping to change public perceptions of the māhū community.

Persecution and Resilience: Performers faced significant harassment and legal challenges, including the “intent to deceive” law, but they often fought back and supported each other.

Legacy and Recognition: The Glade’s history is now being memorialized by institutions like the Bishop Museum and the City of Honolulu, highlighting its importance as a queer landmark.

Read the article here.

Māhū ("in the middle") are seen as third gender people with spiritual and social roles. Historically, the term māhū referred to people assigned male at birth. In 2003 the term mahuwahine was created within Hawaii's LGBTQ community: māhū + wahine ("woman"). The structure of the word is similar to Samoan fa'a (the way of) + fafine (woman/wife).

[forgotten-daydreamer]

"Inclusivity feels so forced these days!" meanwhile Araki's like, here's my canon lgbtq+ fellas:

1. Dio, the main villain in part 1 and 3 (and in other parts too, indirectly) is bisexual, 1987-

2. Sorbet and Gelato, and Tiziano and Squalo, are both gay couples from "Vento Aureo", 1995-99.

3. In the Japanese version, F.F. from "Stone Ocean" changes pronouns between "ore" and "atashi", the former being usually used by men, the latest by women. In the English version, the other characters use they/them pronouns for F.F., 2000-2003.

4. Scarlet Valentine, from "Steel Ball Run", is bisexual, 2004-2011. And from the same part, during the Sugar Mountain arc, two girl can be seen visibly hugging and snuggling in a romantic way: when Gyro asks them if he can offter them drinks, he simply looks at them and leaves, defeated.

5. Dragona Joestar, from "JojoLands", is māhū, 2023-

These are all canon, mind you, and I'm sure I missed someone as well.

[bipedalegg]

i know it's been said before, but the existence of intersex people proves the existence of nonbinary people. sex is not binary, and neither is gender. not to mention cultural gender identities that are thousands of years old

[desktopmermaid]

I’m playing infinite wealth rn and I’m rly charmed with it. It’s interesting to see what locations were changed for the game and what parts were kept realistic. It’s so strange seeing areas me and my friends would hang out.

Anyway. This is near where a tourist almost ran me over with a Segway

[birdybellicose]

So Dragona Joestar is most likely non-binary or Māhū which makes me so damn excited and clap my hand like a seal in pure joy but just one thing Araki....WHAT ARE DRAGONA'S PREFERRED PRONOUNS!?

PRONOUNS ARE IMPORTANT TO EVEN NON-BINARY AND GENDER FLUID PEOPLE!! EVEN IF ITS JUST THEY/THEM!! IF DRAGONA DOESNT MIND BOTH THEN JUST SAY SO MANE!!

[halfmouse]

[queerasfact]

International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

On the 9th of August, the UN celebrates the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, and we celebrate some Indigenous queer history! Here’s a few of our podcasts you can check out to learn some more!

We’wha (pictured)

Born c.1849 at Zuni (now in New Mexico, USA), We’wha was a lhamana - a Zuni gender including both masculine and feminine roles. Like many lhamana, We'wha was a highly skilled craftsperson, proficient in both traditionally masculine, and traditionally feminie crafts.

In 1885, We’wha travelled to Washington DC as a representative of the Zuni people, where they worked with anthropologists and the Smithsonian museum to demonstrate and share information about Zuni crafts and culture, and met US President Grover Cleveland.

Click here to check out our podcast on We'wha!

[Image source - note this source was incorrect in the original post and has been corrected]

Kapaemahu

According to Hawai'ian oral histories, in around the 1500s, four healers visited Honolulu from what are now the Society Islands. These healers - named Kapaemahu, Kahalao, Kapuni, and Kinohi, were māhū, a gender recognised in Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawai’ian) culture, with a particular focus on healing and caring roles.

When they departed Hawai'i, the four māhū left behind four huge stones as a momento of their visit, imbued with their healing powers, which are still revered in Hawai'i today.

Click here to check out our podcast on Kapaemahu!

Osh-Tisch

Osh-Tisch was a batée born in the 19th-century Crow Nation. Batée is a uniquely Crow gender identity, describing a person assigned male at birth, who performs female as well as specifically batée social roles. Osh-Tisch was renowned for their skills as a craftsperson, their bravery in the 1876 Battle of the Rosebud, and as the best poker player in the region. In the face of attempts by the US government to force assimilation to Western ideas of gender, Osh-Tisch’s community fought for their right to express their identity.

Click here to hear our podcast on Osh-Tisch!

[sunoficarus]

I love the queer community so much

I love the he/they lesbians and the she/they gays

I love the femme transmascs and the masc transfemmes

I love the AMAB non-binary people

I love the messy and chaotic it/its and xi/xirs

I love all the badass xenogenders out there

I love the romance/sex repulsed aroaces and I love the romance/sex favorable aroaces

I love the allosexual aromantics and the alloromantic asexuals

I love the queer people who are also religious

I love the he/him girls and the she/her boys

I love the powerful māhū, two spirit, muxe, fa’afafine, and all other third gender communities

I love the queer people who have been living as their true selves since they can remember and the queer people who started much later

I love the amazing intersex community

I love the trans people that still go by their given names

I love the incredibly strong queer POC, and the black trans women to who I give all my gratitude for

I love this community so much. To anyone out there who hasn’t heard it today: You are so loved. No matter your identity you have a community here. You are valid. You are not alone

[hex12345678910]

So a few months ago I decided to make a list of genders and sexualities

Here it's under the cut. Please tell me what to add!

Lesbian/Libidoist Asexual/Lithosexual/Lithromantic/Libragender

Gay/Genderfluid/Genderflux/Graysexual/Gynosexual/Gynoromantic/Genderqueer/Gender Nonconforming/Gender Neutral/Gender Diverse/Gender Gifted/Genderfae/Genderless/Graygender/Gemigender/Genderblank/Genderflow/Genderfuzz/Gender Witched/Girlflux/Grayromantic/Gynesexual/Gyneromantic/Glassgender/Glimragender/Genderfaun

Bisexual/Bigender/Bakla/Bissu/Butch/Biogender/Blurgender/Boyflux/Bicurious/Biromantic/Butchfluid/Butchflux/Burstgender

Transgender/Two Spirited/Transexual/Travesti/Trigender/Tumtum/Turbogender/Tragender

Queer/Questioning/Quoigender/Quadgender

Intersex/Intergender/Ipso Gender/Imperigender

Aromantic/Asexual/Agender/Abrosexual/Abromantic/Autosexual/Androsexual/Andromantic/Androgynous/Ambigender/Aporagender/Autigender/Abimegender/Adamasgender/Aerogender/Aesthetigender/Affectugender/Agenderflux/Alexigender/Aliusgender/Amaregender/Ambonec/Amicagender/Androgyne/Anesigender/Angenital/Anogender/Anongender/Antegender/Anxiegender/Apagender/Apconsugender/Astergender/Astral.Gender/Autogender/Axigender/Allosexual/Autoromantic/Aroace/Aroflux/Aceflux/Allosexual/Alloromantic/Allotroposexual/Allotroposexual/Alloromantic/Allosexual/Autoromantic/Akoisexual/Aliusgender/Amaregender/Aegosexual

Polysexual/Polyromantic/Pansexual/Pangender/Polygender/Polyamorous/Polygamy/Panromantic/Pomosexual/Pomoromantic/Paragender/Perigender/Proxvir

Omnisexual/Omnigender/Omniromantic /Oneiragender

Demigender/Demisexual/Demiflux/Dualgender/Deliciagender/Demifluid/Domgender/Duragender/Demiromantic

Nonbinary/Nuerogender/Neutrois/Neptunic/Ninsexual/Ninromantic/Nanogender

Homoflexible/Heteroflexible/Hijra/Homosexual/Homoromantic/Heterosexual/Heteromantic

Calabai/Calalai/Caelgender/Cassgender/Cassflux/Cavusgender/Cendgender/Cloudgender/Collgender/Colorgender/Condigender/Cupiosexual/Cupioromantic/Ceterosexual/Ceteromantic/Ceterofluid/Ceterogender/Commongender/Cisgender/Cisgender

Eunuch/Egogender/Esspigender/Exgender/Existigender/Epicine

Fa'afafine/Femme/Femfluid/Femgender/Fluidflux/Finsexual/Finromantic/Femflux

Kathoey

Māhū/Maverique/Metagender/Multigender/Muxe/Mirrorgender/Monosexual/Monoromantic/Minsexual/Minromantic/Multisexual/Multiromantic/Magnoxgender/Magigender/Mascfluid/Mascgender/Molligender

Sekhet/Stem/Sapiosexual/Sapioromantic/Skoliosexual/Skolioromantic/Spectrasexual/Spectraromantic/Sapphic/Satturnic/Subgender/Surgender/Systemgender/Straight

Vakasalewalewa/Vapogender/Venngender/Verangender/Vibragender/Voicigender

Waria/Winkte

X-gender/Xenogender

Uranic

Reciprosexual/Recipromantic

Healgender/Heliogender/Hemigender/Horogender/Hydrogender

Jaxura

[bettertwin1]

I'm like, pretty sure para is probably like a kid who's too young to be on Tumblr hence the absolute nonstop hate.

But I just wanna pause for a second and be real, why does paragraph anon care SO MUCH about someone's pronouns, we live in a world where multiple religions exist and they believe in different things (god profits rules, you name it! Even genders!!!), in Hawai'i culture there exists multiple genders (Māhū are third gendered people with additional spiritual and social roles) that aren't just boy/girl, and even then that is incredibly insensitive to say that those are the only two as intersex people exist!!

Genuinely this whole "shoving she/he" on to people is considered to be a new thing, neo pronouns have literally existed for all of history, they just weren't called neo pronouns (kinda) and you wanna know WHY? BECAUSE NEO MEANS NEW, which is why we are seeing such a large influx of NEW pronouns, this isn't a sudden "fad", it's always been a thing, the only difference is we are just seeing more and more people being comfortable with themselves and experimenting with their pronouns and their gender.

Gender is a social construct and has been for literal years.

Anyways, I love you Leo /p I hope this weirdo gets out of your inbox or at least gets off anon.

YESSSS EXACTLY!!!! Also shout out to intersex peeps LOVE UUU

[kingrosalani]

My short film I’ve been working on for my One Iowa class will be released on YouTube on October 11th!

I spent the month of August interviewing some local drag performers for different perspectives on the queer community and how they all feel on living in a state like Iowa in its current political climate. Currently in the last stages of editing but here’s a poster I’ve made for y’all

GARDEN OF DES MOINES

[giyrut-girlie]

(queer) jews in my phone i need help/love

this is a long ass post im so sorry lmfao, im putting it in under the cut to save you all but also if people have head space pls read <3

on friday night, i found myself the last of the shabbat guests (who weren't staying the night) at the Rabbi's house. i had asked my housemate to pick me up at 10:30, but everyone else left before 10.

the kids and rabbi's wife had gone to bed, so it was me, the Rabbi, and two older frum guys who stay over shabbat most weeks to be closer to shul.

for some context, earlier in the evening one of these guys had asked another dinner guest (a med student who I'm good friends with, she's a year or two younger than me) whether trans issues came up in her study. the two of us youngins made brief "help me" eye contact and she answered saying that yes, they did cover trans issues given that as a doctor she will, at some point or another, treat trans patients. the subject was changed, but the room was a bit tense.

so: 10pm, i'm sitting at the table, a little tipsy from all the wine, just hanging out until my ride comes.

the rabbi says "hey ella, i have a question for you now that everyone else (by which he means the not-so-frum people) is gone." and i Just Knew what he was about to ask.

i won't go into extreme detail about the actual conversation, but to sum it up: I was asked my opinion on trans folk, i said that i am supportive and do in fact believe trans people about their identities and was Shut All The Way Down. if i cited statistics i was told that actually they'd seen the opposite, if i tried to explain a study i was familiar with, i was told that they didn't think that was true. i actually don't know how i stayed calm, bc my mind and body were telling me that i was Unsafe basically the entire time (thanks anxiety disorder really did me a solid there /s).

eventually 10:30 rolled around and i had a get out of jail free to skip the rest of that fuck awful conversation, and my housemate was very nice to listen to my debriefing. while talking to her i came to the realisation that one of the main factors in the disagreement was that the rabbi didn't actually value the wisdom of any cultures/teachings/histories outside of judaism. if I talked about sistergirls of the torres strait, or māhū of hawai'i, that was dismissed essentially as goyische nonsense.

this whole conversation has been a Fucking Downer for my mental health. i actually broke shabbat (beyond my usual one melacha to be in the clear and sneaky housemate taxi service) that night bc my thoughts were racing too much to sleep without putting on some comfort media.

but beyond the mental health stuff (though probably actually very related) i've found myself really struggling with judaism since friday night. having my rabbi, who has been helping me through conversion, and who i have really valued as a teacher, and the only two other frum people in the community be so overtly transphobic all at once has really taken me for a spin. like, my rabbi is a lubavitcher, i knew that he was going to be fairly conservative about some stuff, but he literally told me that he only uses the correct pronouns for one of our community members as a "personal favour", and essentially told me that she was good evidence against trans acceptance bc nothing she could ever do would ever make her not a man (and you better believe this involved a lot of comments about her appearance)

to put the icing on the cake, when i dropped off his kids today (i nanny for them once a week), he handed me a book that upon research is basically the jk rowling talking point bible. he said to me that it was a really good book for me to read and that it might help fight some of the "mob mentality" (interesting term for scientific consensus but okay)

(also i had actually looked up my own citations from the discussion later and found myself to be very much correct in my recitation of statistics, but you better believe i wasn't petty enough to forward them on)

ANYWAY if anyone is still reading i'm fucking bummed and super anxious about interacting with my community, my conversion, finding the balance between really truly wanting to pursue an orthodox lifestyle and also being queer myself etc etc

i live in a really small jewish community and can't really leave until i finish my degree in 2026, so i can't exactly just find a more accepting rabbi or shul.

anyone have any advice, or just some solidarity for feeling shitty in this space? love u jews in my phone xx

[artstar1997]

Here’s Bruce and Brandy in precolonial Filipino looks. Clad in batik patterned fashion and tattoos, they really match them because like the Hawaiians and the South Pacific tribes, they also have lots of tattoos and woven patterns on their clothes.

Since Bruce was formerly female to male, while Brandy used to be male, became female, they would be respected for their status as a part of the third gender. Just like how they were respected in Hawaii as māhū, so Bruce, as a binalaki has both male and female traits, which is the same with Brandy as a binabae so they would be celebrated for it.

Alt version: https://sta.sh/0172aedvnnkx

Background: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/lionking/images/d/dd/Dragon140.png/revision/latest?cb=20190920215811&format=original

[chaosintheavenue]

2023 Fallout OC Census- Results

At long last, it's here! This time, we had 593 usable responses.

(There are a few categories I haven't analysed just yet, which is mostly because I have Ideas for how to display that data. Please stand by…)

Getting right into the numbers...

Game

Fallout (original): 18 Fallout 2: 8 Fallout 3: 59 Fallout New Vegas: 214 Fallout 4: 160 Fallout 76: 28 Fallout Tactics: 2 Van Buren: 13 A spin-off, AU or mod: 14 A TTRPG campaign: 13 Multiple of the above: 41 None, just the Fallout universe: 22

Are they the in-game protagonist?

Yes: 328 No: 203 It's complicated: 61

Species

Unmutated human: 444 Ghoul: 51 Synth: 41 Ghoul-ish: 13 Other mutant: 9 Supernatural/spiritual being: 7 Robot (non-humanoid): 7 Super Mutant: 6 Cyborg/android: 5 Unknown/it's complicated: 2 Other: 7

Definitions of a few categories, just to clarify exactly what's in there:

Ghoul-ish: Refers to all characters who are partially ghoulified, ghoulify during their storylines, and unique characters with primarily ghoul-like traits

Other mutant: Refers to all characters who are specified to have unique mutations from any cause, unless they better fit into the ghoul-ish category. This is a very diverse umbrella category, and in past surveys has included everything from characters specified to have 76-style mutations that basically function as perks, to a character similar in form and nature to the Master

Gender

Cis woman/girl: 217 Cis man/boy: 154 Trans man/boy: 76 Nonbinary: 47 Trans woman/girl: 27 Agender: 16 Genderfluid: 7 Genderqueer: 6 Man/boy, unknown or varies if cis or trans: 5 Transfeminine: 3 Bigender: 3 Demigirl: 3 Woman/girl, unknown or varies if cis or trans: 4 Butch: 2 Demigender: 2 Questioning: 2 Intersex: 2 Lesbian: 2 Māhū: 1 Multigender: 1 Queer: 1 Transmasculine: 1 Unlabeled: 1

Bonus answers I enjoyed: [redacted], a man in a certain sense of the word, cat, doesn't care for this, eh, God knows, a link to the Wikipedia page for Stone Butch Blues, it's complicated, man of questionable gender, no gender left beef, lost their gender in the war, people assume she's a woman but she doesn't really care, whatever's funniest, yeah

Where are they from?

In previous OC survey location maps, I've only included a single data point for each character, regardless of how many places they may have connections to. However, this time I've decided to include each place that a character has lived as one data point.

The list of assumptions I use when creating these maps:

Arroyo = Oregon

Mojave Wasteland = Nevada if no more specific locations provided

Capital Wasteland = DC if no more specific locations provided

Vault 101 = DC (I feel like this one isn't geographically accurate, but it's to fit in with the above assumption)

Washington unqualified = Washington state, not DC (even for Fallout 3 characters, especially since I know of a Fallout 3 character who is intended to be from Washington state)

Appalachia = West Virginia unless otherwise specified

NCR = California

Legion territory with no other information given = Arizona (this feels like the biggest generalisation of all to me. Maybe take the Arizona count with a pinch of salt?)

'Near X place' = in the same state as X place

I go by the current fifty US states. No splitting of California or considering Canada to be part of the US

Locations that could not be easily defined or placed in a specific state/country (examples: the US as a general answer, multistate regions of the US, continents, or extraterrestrial locations) have been excluded for the purposes of this map

The map for the US:

Massachusetts: 104 California: 79 Nevada: 77 DC: 74 Arizona: 32 West Virginia: 25 Texas: 17 Utah: 15 Oregon: 14 Colorado: 13 New Mexico: 7 Virginia: 6 Maine: 6 Idaho: 6 Pennsylvania: 5 Illinois: 3 Washington: 3 Louisiana: 3 Florida: 3 Wyoming: 3 Tennessee: 3 New York: 3 Rhode Island: 2 North Carolina: 2 Minnesota: 2 Vermont: 2 Alaska: 2 Missouri: 2 Nebraska: 2 Michigan: 2 Indiana: 2 Kentucky: 2 Oklahoma: 2 Maryland: 2 Montana: 1 Connecticut: 1 Georgia: 1 New Jersey: 1 Wisconsin: 1

And the map for the rest of the world:

Canada: 7 Mexico: 7 UK: 7 Russia: 4 China: 2 Australia: 2 France: 2 Brazil: 1 Ireland: 1 Israel: 1 Finland: 1 Germany: 1 Japan: 1 Panama: 1

Further breakdown of characters from the UK: Wales: 4 (…these are all my guys, what can I say?) England: 2 Unspecified: 1

Has this character ever lived in a vault?

Yes: 223 No: 366

Faction

Minutemen: 99 Railroad: 86 Followers of the Apocalypse: 80 Brotherhood of Steel: 77 Yes Man/Independent Vegas: 63 NCR: 50 Caesar's Legion: 38 Original faction: 36 Institute: 26 Kings: 16 Great Khans: 14 Nuka-World raiders: 13 Mr House: 13 Raiders in general: 13 Goodneighbor: 11 Enclave: 11 Arroyo: 9 Think Tank/Big MT: 8 Reilly's Rangers: 7 Underworld: 7 Ciphers: 7 (would you believe me if I said the majority here are not mine? XD) Responders: 6 Acadia: 6 New Vegas Strip in general: 6 Lyons' Pride: 5 Children of Atom: 5 Megaton: 5 Gunners: 5 Boomers: 5 Powder Gangers: 5 Cult of the Mothman (all variations): 4 Crimson Caravan: 4 Chairmen: 4 Mojave Express: 4 Necropolis: 3 Shady Sands (pre-NCR): 3 Vault 13: 3 Twin Mothers: 3 Diamond City: 3 Freeside: 3 White Glove Society: 3 Vault-Tec: 3 Bishop family: 3 Regulators: 2 Tunnel Snakes: 2 New Canaan: 2 Gecko: 2 Settlers/Foundation: 2 Abolitionists/Temple of the Union: 2 Galaxy News Radio: 2 80s: 2 Desert Rangers: 2 Unity/Master's Army: 2 Vault 76: 2 US Government: 2 Broken Hills: 2 Sanctuary: 2 Blue Ridge Caravan Company: 2 Goodsprings: 2 Cutthroat raiders: 2 Feral ghouls: 2 Hub: 2 Ghouls in general: 2 Nuka-World in general: 2 Little Lamplight/Big Town: 2

And the list of factions with one response, allegedly for the sake of something called 'brevity': Boulder scientists, Vault City, Littlehorn & Associates, Jacobstown, New Reno, Brotherhood Outcasts, Marked Men, Mole Miners, Treeminders, Forged, Junktown, Triggermen, Free States, Vault 101, Vault 81, Slags, Hubris Comics, Bunker Hill, Rivet City, Van Graffs, Ug-Qualtoth, West Tek, Vault 95, Novac, Atom Cats, The Outer Worlds factions, Commonwealth Super Mutants, caravan companies in general

I was initially planning to include a separate 'ish' category for each faction, to account for characters that are aligned with factions unwillingly/temporarily/out of necessity, but looking at the dataset, that sort of situation was so much more prevalent than I realised and quickly made everything very clunky.

Main approach to problems

Diplomacy: 211 Combat: 147 Stealth: 101 Technical skills: 79 Avoidance: 53

And finally for now- preferred weapon type

Small guns: 191 Melee: 128 Energy weapons: 91 Big guns: 82 Avoids combat altogether: 49 Explosives: 27 Unarmed combat: 24

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As always, thank you to everyone who participated and gave me a little information about your OCs! If you'd ever like to talk more about them, my inbox is always open :D. Getting to learn about everyone's brainchildren is definitely my favourite aspect of my tangential foray into the Fallout fandom sphere.

My future plan for this dataset includes… a lot of pie charts, to put it mildly. As I've done for past survey datasets, I'll be compiling pie charts for each question, separating responses by the game that the characters are from, and we'll see if any trends emerge!