#our maverique experience

[our-maverique-experience]

What does it mean to be Maverique?

Maverique is a gender identity characterized by having an autonomous self that exists independently of the gender binary, along with anything derived from those genders, but is not of a neutral gender. (source)

Well, what does that mean?

Some people who are maverique feel like they have a very strong sense of gender, but it’s not particularly defined by masculinity, femininity, the lack thereof, or neutrality. For some, it’s a combination of these characteristics that lay outside what would be traditionally expected in a gender binary, and for others it could be characteristics not commonly associated with other genders they align with (like in multigender folks). These are just a few basic examples, but there are lots of different experiences out there.

Does being Maverique make me nonbinary/trans?

If you’re comfortable identifying as such, sure! Maverique does fall under the nonbinary and trans umbrella.

Is there a certain way to present as Maverique?

Not at all! Everyone’s individual experience being maverique is different- no two people who identify with it look or feel the same way.

Can I be Maverique and another gender?

Absolutely! Just like any gender, maverique can have a place on the multigender spectrum.

What pronouns do people who are Maverique use?

any and all that they feel comfortable with!

[dhfrihfurifh]

OUR MAVERIQUE EXPERIENCE

this is one of those really awesome our-(label)-experience blogs. inspired by blogs like @our-queer-experience , @our-abinary-experience , @our-aroace-experience , and many many more!!

this blog is mostly powered by users like you who send asks, though i will occasionally reblog anything maverique-related if it presents itself!

you can ask here anything related to maverique, doesn't have to be just experiences! questions, labelfinding, whatever :3

off topic posts are tagged with #off topic.

anyways, hi!! i'm cameron/cam. i use any pronouns. i'll see you around!!

[our-demigirl-experience]

hey you!

yea you!!

your gender’s looking great today!!

whatever you identify as

however you prefer to present yourself

however you look

it looks great on you!!!!

[our-trans-youth-experience]

howdy! I have a question. So, I recently discovered I was non-binary, and using she/they wasn't cutting it anymore.

I use they/them, but also neopronouns? I just hate binary pronouns (she/her and he/him). is there a name for this?

As well, I am comfortable with the terms "girlfriend" (romantically)

and "madame" and "sir". but really that's it for more "binary" terms. is this still being non-binary?

I'm not sure about terms, but I think you could say that you use they/(any) neos. I'd recommend having a look at some terms like aporagender, neutrois, maverique, xenogender, outherine, transneutral, and agender if you are interested :) But yes, as long as your experience of gender is outside of the traditional gender binary, then you are under the nonbinary umbrella. Hope this helps and if anyone knows more about this, please let me know <3

[our-xenogender-experience]

Whenever I see someone identifying as xenogender they almost always have a specific thing they corelate their gender with (like a song-gender or a sky-gender exc.)

But I like using Xenogender to just mean something that doesn't fit with how people normally see genders in the female/male/nonbinary categories but it's still a strong gender, and I've been worrying recently that I shouldn't using Xenogender like that '^^

Any advice?

You can absolutely use xenogender however it works best for you!! Sounds a bit like you might like the term abinary or maverique though, if you want to see what those are! If you like xenogender though then go with it!

@our-abinary-experience and @our-maverique-experience are blogs you can check out for that!!

[maveriquecultureis]

Maverique multigenderculture is believing that one of your gender can’t be maverique because you heavily identify with masculine and feminine genders until you realize that the way you experience them is indeed maverique

maverique culture is!

[the-genderflux-experience]

Master list of all the "our __ experience" lgbtq+ blogs

These are all the active and inclusive/friendly queer blogs I could find. If I listed any that are exclusionist or otherwise bad or are just inactive, please let me know so I can remove them. This list is intended to help queer people find active and inviting communities to participate in and feel safe in. If you know more feel free to add them in the reblogs and/or tell me them so I can add them. Please spread this around, I worked very hard on compiling this list, and this may help people find the community for them here on Tumblr.

🏳️‍🌈 Overall community

@our-queer-experience

@our-lgbtq-brazilian-experience

🏳️‍🌈 Aromantic and/or asexual

@aroacesafeplaceforall

@our-arospec-experience

@our-asexual-experience

@our-oriented-aroace-experience

@our-aroace-experience

@unionize-aromantically

@our-demiromantic-experience

@our-demian-experience

@our-amicus-experience

@our-grey-experience

@our-aspec-experience

🏳️‍🌈 Gay/lesbian

@our-lesbian-experience

@our-gay-experience

@our-lesboy-experience

@our-gaybian-experience

@our-mlm-experience

@our-sapphic-experience

@our-achillean-experience

@our-butch-experience

@our-sapphillean-experience

🏳️‍🌈 Transgender

@our-transgender-experiences

@transsexual-experiences

@our-transfeminine-experience

@our-transmasculine-experience

@our-trans-youth-experience

@our-trans-punk-experience

@our-transhet-experience

@our-afab-transfem-experience

@our-amab-transmasc-experience

🏳️‍🌈 Genderfluid (and related)

@our-genderfluid-experience

@the-genderflux-experience

@our-boyflux-experience

@our-genderfawn-experience

@our-genderfae-experience

🏳️‍🌈 Demigender

@our-demigirl-experience

@our-demiboy-experience

🏳️‍🌈 Agender

@our-agender-experience

🏳️‍🌈 Multigender

@our-multigender-experience

@your-bigender-big-brother

@yourbigendergremlet

🏳️‍🌈 Nonbinary

@our-nonbinary-experience

@our-genderqueer-experience

@our-androgyne-experience

@our-abinary-experience

@our-maverique-experience

🏳️‍🌈 More sexualities

@our-pansexual-experience

@our-bisexual-experience

@our-mspec-experience

🏳️‍🌈Polyamory (and related)

@our-polyamorous-experience

@our-ambiamorous-experience

🏳️‍🌈 Neurodivergence

@our-neuroqueer-experience

🏳️‍🌈 Other/random

@our-queerplatonic-experience

@gender-envy-is

@our-unlabelled-experience

@our-xenogender-experience

@our-questioning-experience

@our-outherly-experience

@our-neopronoun-experience

@anattractional-safe-space

[themaveriqueagenda]

it's trans+ history week, and i want to talk about something.

as a trans maverique, i can't relate to large parts of trans history. a lot of it, even the nonbinary parts, always refer back to the binary in some way, like being fluid between both, blending both, femme or butch as genders etc.

as someone whose gender is disconnected from all of this, i only relate to those things on a surface level, if at all.

the only person i at least somewhat relate to was a neuter person on a talk show in the late 80s. they were the only historical reference i have for being separate from the binary.

and being alienated from what's meant to be your history feels very weird. it feels like there's a void where your ancestors should be.

it feels like my experience isn't real because there's nothing in trans history i can point to and say "look, they're like me, we have always existed". and this goes way beyond just language.

feeling like you have no history feels like the people who claim that your gender was just made up on the spot 2 weeks ago were right after all.

not seeing myself represented in history also means i don't know what the lives of people like me looked like, or what they can look like now.

it raises so many questions: do we grow old? do we get to live long and happy lives? where did we find community? what did we call ourselves before "maverique" existed? were we able to exist openly, or did we only get to be ourselves in the privacy of our journals?

who are my ancestors that i can honour?

[your-bigender-big-brother]

The Recontextualization and the Disidentification of Gender

(essay under the cut)

Maverinity is an autonomous gender quality that lies outside of masculine, feminine, neutral, and null - this makes it an outherine identity. While it is obvious that the intrinsic categories that maverinity falls into are autonomous and outherine (both at the same time), there are two very distinct features to this autonomy that are specific to the maverine experience: The recontextualization of gender and the disidentification of gender.

Autonomy starts with a separation from any governance, which is why maverique - a “maverick-like” gender - gets its name from being a maverick of sorts. It stands out, existing separately from any pre-established gender category. It isn't masculine, feminine, neutral, or null but is a distinct gendered feeling based on the “personal inner conviction” of one's gender. What this means is that our gender is defined by ourselves with none of the stringencies that come from conventional gender. Maverinity, the gender quality tied to being maverique, exists outside of the norm just the same.

When we recontextualize gender for ourselves, we reshape what it means to be a specific gender and shake up the expectations connected to it. If I were to use my own gender as an example, I would say that my malehood is of a maverine quality. While it may look like traditional malehood from someone else's perspective, its experience is far outside of the binary and is more comparable to abinarity. But it is the reshaping of my malehood that makes this gender experience an autonomous one, not simply an abinary or outherine one.

Maverinity is also the recontextualization of gender itself, rather than relying on existing genders as the context. Most people might think of gender as binary, nonbinary, multigender, neutral, and genderless (as very broad terms for several corresponding genders.) A maverine gender does not fit in with any of these terms, giving us a brand-new category for genders that doesn’t look like typical genderedness. This means that maverinity can recontextualize existing genders as well as gender as a whole: How this manifests will change from person to person depending on what maverinity means to them.

Disidentification is the other part of gender autonomy. It is the rejection of gendered expectations and of the rigidity that comes with being forced into a box. For example, one might have a gender that is not binary, but they may elect to not call themselves nonbinary or abinary either. Just because that person technically fits the definition of nonbinarity or abinarity doesn't mean they should feel obligated to use those terms - they are removed from the categories they would normally be forced into that would correspond with their gender. As for myself: I'm a transgender man but I reject “transmasculine” as an identifier. I am not transmasculine even though the general consensus supports that trans men automatically fall under that category. My transgender identity - my masculinity - is maverine-in-nature, which is why I call myself transmaverine instead.

Disidentification is what makes maverinity not feminine, not masculine, not neutral, and not genderless. It is defined, in this context, by what it is not. It establishes itself as a quality that cannot be forced into any one of these categories and is often not comparable to such. It is removed from specific identifying categories and is, instead, within its own category. Disidentification does not start and end with breaking expectations of specific genderedness, but extends to the idea that maverinity by default and on its own cannot be categorized using conventional means.

It's important to note that maverinity doesn’t just exist as a way to transform or transcend gender conventionality. It is very much outside of existing genders and of any comparison to such and because of this, it doesn't have to use midbinarity to establish itself nor does it need to even be compared to abinarity. When someone is maverine, that more than likely means they have an outherine identity with no proximity to the binary or binary-related concepts. There are plenty of singular maverine genders and specific maverine qualities that are simply based on one’s personal belief of their own gender that can’t be compared to any other gender. The variability of the maverine quality is why it works so well for so many people. Recontextualization and disidentification is only one fraction of how that quality presents itself.

[genderkoolaid]

for the nonbinary language thing: my go to phrase 2 refer 2 NB ppl is "neithers, eithers, and others" to cover all tha bases. neithers = agender, neutral / eithers = boygirls & in-betweeners / others = maveriques & anyone else (like xenines n such)

I like that! Especially cause it rhymes, which is always fun

I think this also does a good job of encouraging people to view "nonbinary" as an umbrella term and not a single gender on it's own. I this can be blamed on the general erasure/binarization of nonbinary people & our issues but we don't tend to talk about, say, the difference between the needs of a neutois compared to a boygirl. I am both of those; as a girlboy it's important to me that we expand binary gender spaces to be inclusive of NB people and make people understand that man/woman are not exclusively a Normie Gender experience. As a neutois, it's important to me to have more "neither" options and create spaces for "neither" people and have it been seen as an identity that can be as deep and meaningful as man/woman. But all of that kind of gets obscured under "nonbinary."

[our-abro-experience]

hello, and welcome to our abro experience!!

i'm ash/rhylee!! you can use whichever name you like best

i use any and all pronouns (short psa about this at the bottom of the post). my identity is honestly very fluid- i considered for a time that i was genderfluid, but i'm probably abrogender. also abrosexual. idk man it's confusing

this blog is open to all of you who would like to share your abro experiences, ask questions, give answers or suggestions, and more!! i'm looking forward to meeting all of you!

abrogender describes gender fluidity in a way that is sort of similar to being genderfluid. if you're abrogender, your gender fluctuates in a way that is impossible to pin down, or you have so many tiny aspects to your gender that you're constantly discovering it.

abrosexual is the same idea as abrogender, except with your sexuality. someone who's abrosexual would find their sexual identity shifts often- they might identify with the term gay, and then might feel attracted to all genders, and then might not feel any attraction at all.

link to a person's explanation of their abrosexual identity

this blog was inspired by @our-queer-experience, @our-nonbinary-experience, @our-genderfluid-experience, @our-questioning-experience, @our-maverique-experience, and more

my other blog is @lappelduvide-thesevenumbrellas on which i mostly shitpost and reblog shitposts

ALRIGHT TIME TO EXPLAIN

when i say i want you to use any and all pronouns for me, i mean ANY AND ALL

THEY/THEM/THEIR

VEY/VEM/VAIR

SHE/HER, HE/HIM, XE/XEM

USE NEOPRONOUNS, MAKE UP PRONOUNS, I DON'T CARE

USE ALL PRONOUNS

[our-lesboy-experience]

i like describing my lesbian attraction as "women of all presentations (including women who are not Just women or who are only Partially women or are "women" as a solidarity thing but not as their gender) and anyone who identifies as a lesbian or sapphic in any fashion"

and there's part of me that's like... man i wish i (lesboy/male lesbian, ambonec and maverique) could be in queer love with a turigirl. like man wouldn't it be cool if i could be lesbian for them and they be gay/turian/achillean/(whatever term they prefer) for me. and we were cool and hot together. like wouldn't that be awesome. so many trans and queer sexuality experiences out there and i want to be in love with someone who also knows how it's like to have a strange relationship with both, who knows that labels aren't the end-all be-all of the ever-expansive sentient experience and that we're all just trying our best and we could try our best together. that's something i think would be really nice

!!!!!!!!

[dhfrihfurifh]

I feel like a maverique but with a connection to both masculinity and feminity. Not male/female, but specifically masc/fem. Do you know any labels that sound like that? no worries if you don't, I've been under the non binary label for years, a while more won't hurt me XD

i haven't heard of one like that, sorry :( if you don't find one yourself, you can probably coin it! i have heard of many people identifying with masc/fem and not male/female, though!

thanks for sharing!

[our-demigirl-experience]

Uhhhh, hi! Good day/night! I hope sharing randomly is allowed >////< , just wanted to share what demigirl means when applied to me!

I would say I'm a demigirl the same way the moon is a woman. Its just a rock, but it is still called she! And it also changes day by day, and some rare days it is fully light or fully dark

To make it more simple, my gender is fluid between neutral (maverique) and a girl. Usually i have some ties to femininity but not completely, so i use the term demigirl!

Bonus, maybe i should make it into a meme:

My gender is girl, if you ordered it from temu (knock-off/offbrand, not quite)

It's always allowed!!

That's great thank you for sharing!

[this-is-exorsexism]

not an exorsexism ask

just think you obviously have a lot of negative things to see to run this blog n wanted to give you some positivity

pls listen to your favorite song today! be kind to yourself! eat something yummy! remember that you deserve joy n happiness n all the nice things!

flowers for u > 🌻🏵️🌺💮🌼🌻🏵️🌺💮🌼

also a four leaf clover 🍀

this is so sweet, thank you so much. 💛

giving this energy to people affected by exorsexism who follow this blog too.

just remember that being outside of the binary is a beautiful thing and there is no wrong way to do so. if you don't have a gender, you're beautiful. if you relate to the gender binary in some way, you're incredible. if your gender is neutral, you are amazing. if you have multiple genders, you are powerful. if your gender is fluid, you are marvellous. if your gender can only be described with concepts, objects or similar, you are radiant. if you have a partial gender, you are perfect. if you don't label your gender, you are awesome. if your gender is not related to the binary, you are outstanding. if you are questioning your gender, you are phenomenal. if your gender is specific to your culture, you are astonishing. if your gender is outside the binary and you don't identify as nonbinary, you are fabulous. if i didn't describe your gender here, you are still excellent and you matter so, so much.

shoutout to people who law gender leads to using terms that "don't go together". shoutout to nonbinary cis people, to enbyhets, to lesboys, to turigirls, to afab transfems, to amab transmascs, to boygirls. i love all of you.

shoutout to people whose genders lead to using terms that don't get much visibility. shoutout to trixics, torics, enbians, cenelians, maveriques, neutrois people, diamorics, pera people and so many more. i love you so much.

shoutout to people who avoid any gendered terms altogether. shoutout to people who just want to be called a person. shoutout to people who don't use gender-specific orientation terms. i love you, always.

shoutout to people outside the binary whose experience is often overlooked. shoutout to Black people, indigenous people and other people of colour, to disabled people, to fat people, to intersex people. i love you forever.

i love this community and our infinite diversity so much. things often feel so dire for us but gosh, you all are so loved.

[our-nonbinary-experience]

i'm so sick of my gender. every two weeks, i stay up until 2 am browsing the lgbtqia wiki for a brand-new gender because i just i didn't like the old one. i don't use some genders because i don't like the flags, or i've used it too many times, or i don't like how the community perceives it. i've gone by dozens and dozens of labels, and none of them really stick. i've been doing this literally for years. i'm tired of it.

i think this is happening because i choose a lot of very rigid gender labels, like maverique, bigender, and agender. these terms don't have a lot of breathing room, and my gender, whatever it may be, is too claustrophobic. it needs space to breathe, to move, to change color and shape and size.

the most recent label i've gone by is pangender, because i sort of connect to all parts of the gender spectrum in some way. or, at least, i did.

i've decided that i want to drop most of my labels. my gender won't be suffocated by rigid labels. i'm just queer now. any sort of label i find myself in, new or old, will be merely holographic. it will not affect my true gender, constantly changing color and shape and size. and i'm gonna leave it alone. i'm going to make it not my problem. my pronouns, gender, etc aren't something someone should worry about for me and it's not something i'll worry about either. i felt this fit in this blog.

That definitely fits this blog, and if you want you could check out @our-unlabelled-experience for more unlabelled types of posts!