#accessible xenogender

[describe-things]

Download or read online the document of pride flag image description templates here on the Internet Archive. It took almost three hours of my day. I hope you appreciate it.

If you often post pride flags, please start using or making image description templates and describing your original posts rather than asking other people to do it for you.

If you make the original post accessible from the start, literally everyone benefits. It's not fair to ask physically disabled people to be the only ones putting in effort to make the spaces accessible.

You can also submit pride flags to this blog that need templates, and the document will be updated.

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for easy reposting:

"https://describe-things.tumblr.com/post/754734279093895168/image-description-start-the-three-panel-do-you"

[rammgender]

ok. i'm genuinely so fucking sick and tired of being nice about this and not saying anything. evidently it seems the people who try to be nice about this are just ignored, and this is seriously a massive issue with our community.

this is a not super kindly worded message to every single coiner who uses heavy typing quirks, excessive amounts of spaces, colored text, ascii symbols, and what have you especially when there's no translations or the translations are hidden under a cut or at the end of a post.

have a fucking sliver of respect for visually impaired people. please. your coining posts are entirely inaccessible to those who need screenreaders, and half the time even i'm struggling to read them without needing one. i've seen at least 5 posts about this in the last few months and there has been zero change. in fact, i think even more blogs who use this format have popped up!

so fix it. your passive ableism is not fucking cutesy and fun in the slightest. no excuses, especially since typing in plain text is significantly faster.

and if this post makes you upset, you should really re-evaluate how inclusive you actually are.

[rabidbatboy]

“no id sorry” “no spoons for id” booo booo 👎👎👎 booooo (you can wait until you have spoons to make a short description of an image, nobody is holding you at gunpoint to post your mogai flag right now 🙂 or!! you could even ask someone for help!)

[terabyte-teddybear]

hypnoangeligender / cynoangeligender

a gender related to being a sleepy angel / a gender related to being a dog angel, can literally be a dog and angel or an angel who relates to dogs

these are very self indulgent lol but if anyone else happens to identify with them u are welcome to use them! please credit if using in edits or blog layout :3 (id under cut)

@radiomogai

four square shaped flags with 7 stripes, 2 go purplish blue, denim, periwinkle, light yellow, light warm purple, medium warm purple, neon warm purple, they are identical except one has an emoji of the yellow snoozing face with a halo over it. 2 go purplish blue, denim, periwinkle, light yellow, medium brown, dark brown, espresso, they are identical except one has an emoji of a dog with a halo over it end id.

[radykalny-feminizm]

Men stay the fuck away from women's bathroom challenge

[thewiltingrose]

Naturapaxic: A gender related to feeling eerily calm and at peace when taking a walk in nature  natura- Latin for nature Pax- Latin for peace

[rjalker]

People, if you are making the original post, image descriptions need to go directly below the image being described, above all other commentary.

Do not fucking put the image description at the very bottom of the post below all your other paragraphs when the image being described is the first thing on the post!

Stop fucking prioritizing aesthetics over accessibility!

[ID: Two columns, one labeled, "Yes", the other labeled, "No".

Both show a light blue square labeled "image" at the top of the column.

The "Yes" column has text reading "[image description]" directly below the image, followed by text that reads in three lines: "Other text, look at this text, some more text".

The "No" column has the image, then three lines of text reading, "look at this text, some more text, even more text", which is finally followed by the text reading "[image description]" at the very bottom.

End ID.]

Put your image descriptions immediately below the image they are describing. Don't even put the title before them. Describe the image before you do anything else.

If you prioritize aesthetics over accessibility, you are ableist.

Important addition:

No, ALT text is not a replacement for accessible image descriptions. Tumblr's ALT text feature is not accessible (it's in eyestraining colors), and still doesn't work for some people.

It is more accessible for everyone to have a plain-text, accessible image description over relying on ALT text. Especially if the only reason you're using ALT text is because you think image descriptions are an eyesore!

[satellites-halo]

girlaccident/accidentgirl

when ur a girl on accident/ur a girl but that's a mistake. can also be calls oopsgirl which is a funnier name

[pkmnn]

GOOGENDER/SLIMEGENDER/OOZEGENDER/WHATEVERRR

slapped this together real quick bc i couldnt find anything that fit what i was looking for ToT not greatttt quality but like i said. slapped together real quick.

a xenogender relating to oozes, slimes, goos, gunks, etc. colors are traditional slime colors from rpgs (tabletop and otherwise). no particular meanings besides that.

[drop-dead-dropout]

op of this post dmed me and condescended to me about how I "didn't understand" what she meant. proceeded to tell me transandrophobia is made up. i'm just not interacting idc anymore rant in the tags if anyone wants to hear it

haha yeah girldick! awesome! hey quick question how do you feel about trans women and transfems when you're not talking about fucking them or them fucking you or just using them as the buttend of your sex jokes. no don't run away internet transmasc speak into the mic boy. 🎤

[doberbutts]

❗️❗️ This is asked entirely in good faith. This post is intended to open dialogue and help with solidarity and understanding. ❗️❗️

I would like to hear specifically from nonbinary people how the system of exorsexism/enbyphobia uniquely targets and affects you. Things that you feel other demographics do not experience. Reblogs and replies are very encouraged! If you would prefer, you could dm or send an ask to be added anonymously by me.

This is in the spirit of wanting to understand. I am listening. I encourage all binary trans people to not speak on this topic and let nonbinary people do the talking here. Reblog the post to spread it, but please say nothing.

Any and all people who identify as nonbinary are encouraged to participate. This is not agab-locked. If you are agender, trans neutral/neutrois, genderfluid, bigender, trigender, multigender, xenogender, genderqueer, third gender, two spirit, or any other gender not wholey contained within the strict binary of "man" or "woman", this post is for you. Even if you have already posted on the trans fem or trans masc versions, if you are nonbinary, you are welcome here.

This is not bait to start a fight. I will block without hesitation anyone who is actively being a shithead on this post. I want to hear and uplift your voices by getting it directly from you.

Click this to access the trans fem and trans women version of this post.

Click this to access the trans masc and trans men version of this post.

Click this to access the intersex version of this post.

[biracy]

I actually do think it's cool when "older" lgbt people id with "newer" terms tho. Like everyone knows it's cool to be a 19-year-old genderqueer transSEXual but it's also cool when people are on here in their 40s being catgender and stuff. I think people still have a gut reaction towards microlabels, xenogenders, neopronouns, etc as Cringe but realize that this is a bad way to think about other people, and try to justify other people being "cringe" in their minds by going "Oh they're just kids, it's fine." But it's not always gonna be just kids! The Internet expands people's access to language and this includes "older" people finding and identifying with newer lgbt terms, yes, even the ones for cringey teens lol

[nova-dracomon]

My Gender is [NOT] Human Zine is now available for download!

Xenogender: A gender that cannot be contained by human understandings of gender; more concerned with crafting other methods of gender categorization and hierarchy such as those relating to animals, plants, or other creatures/things.

This zine is a collection of artwork, writing and more created by alterhumans and nonhumans to express both their species identity, gender, and how they intersect. While this zine has an xenogender slant, everyone who had something to share about how their species and gender overlap were encouraged to submit pieces!

Speaking of which: Thank you to everyone who submitted works! It means a lot to us that others think our project is valuable and are willing to use their time and ability to be a part of it! The community is so talented and varied, we hope this zine serves as a comfort for anyone who feels alone in their alterhuman and gender identities.

We created this zine to be an accessible pdf. Every entry is bookmarked for easy browsing, every image contribution is accompanied by alt text and we’ve done our best to battle against Adobe Acrobat's reading order to make sure it was logical! We’re also rather proud of figuring out how to make the content warnings also be links - so skipping ahead is only a click away. 

Download it now for free here!

[intervex]

What Pride Flags Mean, Part 1: Gender and Attraction

Welcome to the latest installment of my autistic hyperfixation on flags! I wanted to figure out a common language of Colour X means Thing Y. Like how pink is consistently used for feminine.

Having a common language for flag meanings matters because it improves cognitive accessibility of flags. ♿️💙

But I didn't want to be prescriptive about what colours should mean what. Just because I think Thing X should go with Colour Y doesn't mean everybody else would.

So this turned into a descriptive, empirical project. I gathered a data set of 2060 pride flag colour choices to figure out what are the most common colour-meaning combinations. Some of the results:

And here are the abstract modifiers: these are modifiers that were generally shared between the genders and the attractions. For example, black is used to indicate having no gender as well as having no attraction.

Click here for tables with okLCH values, hex values, definitions, and notes - I've put a more detailed write-up on my Wikimedia Commons userpage. (Mediawiki supports sortable tables and Tumblr does not.)

METHODS-AT-A-GLANCE

To make the figures above, I assembled a data set of pride flag colours. It contains 2060 colour choices from 624 pride flags, representing 1587 unique colours. Click here for a detailed description of how I gathered and tagged the pride flag colours and tagged them.

For each tag, I converted every colour to okLCH colour space and computed a median colour. OkLCH colour space is an alternative to RGB/hex and HSL/HSV. Unlike RGB/hex and HSL/HSV, okLCH is a perceptual colour space, meaning that it is actually based on human colour perception. 🌈

In okLCH space, a colour has three values:

- Lightness (0-100%): how light the colour is. 100% is pure white.

- Chroma (0-0.37+): how vibrant the colour is. 0 is monochromatic. 0.37 is currently the most vibrant things can get with current computer monitor technologies. But as computer monitor technologies improve to allow for even more vibrant colours, higher chroma values will be unlocked.

- Hue (0-360°): where on the colour wheel the colour goes - 0° is pink and 180° is teal, and colours are actually 180° opposite from their perceptual complements.

The important thing to know is that okLCH Hue is not the same Hue from HSV/HSL - the values are different! (HSL and HSV are a hot mess and do not align with human colour perception!)

You can learn more about okLCH through my little write up, which was heavily influenced by these helpful articles by Geoff Graham, Lea Verou, and Keith J Grant.

You can play with an okLCH colour picker and converter at oklch.com

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MORE RESULTS: COLOUR DISTRIBUTIONS

Back when I started tagging my data, I divided my data into five main chunks: Gender qualities (e.g. masculine, androgynous), Attraction (e.g. platonic, sexual), Values (e.g. community, joy), Disability (e.g. Deaf, blind), and Other.

I'll talk about Disability and Values in future posts! But for an alternate view of the data, here are the full distributions of the colours that were placed in each tag.

They come in three parts: tags I created for Gender, tags for Attraction, and tags from Other. The abstract modifiers are spread between the first two, though their contents transcend Gender and Attraction.

Some distributions have a lot more variance within them than others. Generally speaking, major attraction types tended to have the least variance: sensual attraction is really consistently orange, platonic is really consistently yellow, etc.

Variance and size do not correlate. Many of the smaller tags are quite internally consistent. I don't have a ton of tags in "current gender" but they're all the same dark purple. Xenine/xenogender has a whole bunch of entries, and there's a really big spread from blue to yellow.

Some tags, like intersex as well as kink/fetish show there are a small number of different colours that are very consistently used. Whereas other tags like masculine show a very smooth range - in this case from cyan to purple.

Overall I'm pretty satisfied with how things wound up! 🥳 It makes sense to me that an umbrella term like xenogender would have a lot of variance. What honestly makes me happiest is just how many tags wound up 180 or 90 degrees from their opposites/complements. 🤩

Not everything lined up nicely (the opposite of drag is .... neuroqueer? awkward.) 🤨 Some things lined up in hilarious ways, like how initially I had the opposite of kink/fetish being Christian (amazing.)

But as a whole, there's a lot of structure and logic to where things landed! I hope this makes sense for other people and can help inform both flag making as well as flag interpreting (e.g. writing alt-text for existing flags). 🌈

I'm hoping to post the Disability and Values analyses in the coming days! If you want to learn more, my detailed notes along with tables etc are over on my Wikimedia Commons userspace. 💜

Everything here is Creative Commons Sharealike 4.0, which means you're free to reuse and build on my visualizations, tables, etc. Enjoy!

[ryanyflags]

A List of Gender Terms !

So I disappeared for 2 months, but I finally completed this project! :D (Though I've been making some random posts talking about it, so it's not like I was really gone, or what I was working on wasn't obvious.)

It started off as me having trouble keeping track of a couple gender terms (and also not knowing they existed before, since I've never really seen people talk about them), then I thought I should make a list, and if I was going to do that I might as well post it to help other people too. Which I started out trying to make that list on Tumblr, but I found it too limiting so I moved to google docs, which I also found too limiting (I just couldn't achieve my vision, if you will), and now I know html and css.

As usual, I kinda overdid it, but I think I should be a little proud of myself. I had 0 knowledge of html and css, and 2 months later I've made my own website. (I could have made it much quicker, but I often had to take breaks, a bit overwhelmed by all that new stuff.)

Anyways, it has a ton of terms on there.

I have sections for nonbinary, abinary, midbinary, atrinary, midtrinary, androgyne, agender, neutrois, maverique, ilyagender, aporagender, outherine, kenochoric, and xenogender.

For 7 categories (sex terms, adult, general term, child, gender quality, gender-quality-in-nature genders, and spectrum / -iagender spectrum).

And they all have sources on both Archive Today, Wayback Machine, and if still existing, the original post too. (At least to the best of my abilities, and there are a couple of exceptions that I couldn't figure out.)

I did put effort into this, but it's possible I missed something. So if I made a mistake anywhere, or if anyone has any extra information to add on, or if you just have some comments, you can tell me. My ask box is open, but comments on this post would probably be fine too.

Also, I checked on a couple of different browsers, mobile too, and read up on web accessibility and checked and all that (I tried using a screen reader, I'm not a pro at it though, so it's possible I may have missed something obvious), so I hope the website itself is useable. But if there's any bugs there, just tell me (it'll be appreciated).

I'm also thinking of making another compilation, but for flags (for all of the terms listed here), and maybe orientations too, but maybe later haha

I also don't know how to write a image id for the top picture, if anyone wants to write to one I'll add it.

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Below the cut is a short little video scrolling through the site.

[imageidmaker]

[ Image ID /

A screenshot of a Tumblr post by @ skyeblureef. It reads:

But... Stop... Calling... Everything... A gender... And sexuality,,., .,, ,, I'm begging you,,, .. . ., ,. ,

# like wtf I saw something called DIGIGENDER # where your a fucking electronic thing # AH YES MY GENDER IS AN SD CARD # shut up Nicolas # lgbt

/ End ID ]

I am a nonhuman system member, specifically an android. I have no gender because of this. Request that you allow me to use words that accurately describe my experience.

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