#gender in digital spaces

[charcoaljuniper]

I Finished My Research!

Hey y'all, I finished my research and would like to formerly introduce...

The Fabric of Identity: Using Clothing and Style to Communicate Gender Expression.

Project Summary: A free and accessible website about nonbinary and gender nonconforming people, their history, and how they use their style to interact with the world around them.

Includes:

What Does "Nonbinary" Mean?

Interviews with Nonbinary Folks

Identity Centric Events

The Effect of Digital Spaces

Further Reading and Resources

Community Building

Please give it some love!

[drawerbread]

Happy pride month everyone! Here's some silly gh drawings to celebrate (vague college au?)

[bruoche]

Illfit.

As a teen I always used to dread pool days at school, having stomach aches weeks prior from the anxiety at the mere idea of wearing a swimsuit, despite loving the activity of swimming in itself.

[veryfairysyd]

What if you were a girl or something and then decided to trans your gender, robot style

Reminder ! Art Comms Open Now :)

[nothingeverchangeswoy]

Random doodles!

Had a little too much fun doodling some Wander Over Yonder characters (and a few tarot cards!) on a whiteboard in a WOY Discord server ✨ One of the tarot cards is of Y/N, which I did in Krita instead—might re-draw the others digitally later! 🔮💫

The tarot cards are mostly Nothing Ever Changes oriented, so the symbolism makes way more sense if you've read the fic... but also?? Not entirely?? Lol.

[kindasoggy]

🩷💙🩵💜💛💚🏳️‍🌈

Please stay safe and take care of yourselves, we’re all still here and at least we have eachother

[futureceleste]

My other dnd oc Jenny.

[sheepishwoolly]

something kinda simple for kirbys 33rd anniversary. i intended to draw something last year, but like usual, i just completely forgot about it. its frustratingly common for me to intend to do something one day, and the only time i remember it is the day after, but i finally remembered this year!

kirby is a character who i feel like i needed to make some fanart of because hes such a big part of my childhood. if i had never discovered the furry community or the object show community, i could see myself being in the kirby fandom

anyway, i decided to go for a more retro depiction of kirby here, like kirby super star/kirbys fun pak era. i definitely like his current depiction too, but idk theres something i especially like about his late 90s/early 2000s look for some reason. i think his smaller face at the time made him look more squishy and silly

[o4o41]

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[freckliedan]

https://www.tumblr.com/freckliedan/769058798077902848/im-sorry-but-if-youve-only-been-a-phannie-since?source=share

i agree with you a lot (saying this as a REALLY new phannie, ive only been here a few months). hugs.

i feel like just simply wondering if someone could be trans shouldnt necessarily be seen as 'creepy speculation', and i notice that in general (with other youtubers/celebs etc not just phan) that when fans question if they're outside of what is considered to be the 'norm' in any way (such as queer, trans, neurodivergent etc) people call them creepy, parasocial, etc. but the same is not done if fans automatically assume them to be cis, straight or neurotypical. i feel like ppl upset with dangender may possibly be seeing it incorrectly, thinking that people are saying 'because dan said/did this, that means he MUST be this' but i haven't seen a singular person who posts dangender act like that, and i follow a LOT of ppl. the vast majority of what i see isn't even speculation, it's just positivity and ppl being happy about things he said/did, and being happy that he's happy.

being trans myself, i actually feel really happy that ppl find comfort/happiness in the idea of dan being of the cisn't variety and see it as a positive and beautiful thing. in media and real life it feels like transphobia is really loud, but little things like seeing people celebrate it here is what keeps me going. i'm not personally someone who believes in the idea per se (to me dan is just dan whatever he is haha), but i like seeing people be positive about it.

of course, not everyone will fuck with stuff like dangender and they dont have to, but like you said blocking/blacklisting words is always the best way to go about that. because otherwise it can come across as demonising something that someone only does to find comfort in. my time on the internet has made me learn that it's not always a personal attack against you if they're doing something you either dont like or find uncomfy. in fact a lot of the time it's not. i say this very gently to ppl against it, a random internet user who posts dangender is not doing it to hurt you or dan.

(linked post, with a lot of great additions in the tags)

anon! i'm really late to replying to this but thank you for chipping in! i sat on a handful of asks because i didn't want to accidentally create a strong discourse or answer asks while emotionally disregulated. and then bc i forgor.

but i'm still answering bc i especially love hearing from people with different phandom experiences & opinions from me 💛 AND because i know that so many people find joy and comfort in these kinda celebrations of whatever it is dan's doing.

i think you're really hitting the nail on the head w the creepy speculation thing—i've seen this reaction be especially strongest when it comes to speculation abt transness (esp transfemininity) and autism. it's a double standard! and it's coming from unexamined prejudice.

i think learning things aren't a personal attack is probably the most important possible piece here. over the years i've seen so many people behave poorly on phannie tumblr bc their feelings of validity in their personal identity were tied to their opinion of dan or phil's identity.

this was happening about sexuality labels before dnp came out, too—people used to get nasty about defending their bisexuality or gayness. and that pretty much always came from a lack of space between self identity and percieved identity of dnp.

i have a lot of compassion and understanding for people in that boat wrt dangender, you know? especially people younger than me. i used to run several queer support groups for young people, and every time someone was being hurtful with their views on gender it came from personal struggle.

i can't like, ignore it or let it slide, though. i love my kids from those groups to this day, but they didn't just hurt each other with some of their views. they really hurt me too. it makes it easy to spot when people are coming from the same perspective on here wrt dangender, even if it might be less overt and intentional shittiness.

i don't want to play dolls online with people who are in that kind of mindset! and that's why we love the block and mute functions of online.

& i also love finding & sharing joy on here about gender bc yeah! it fucking sucks most places. but we're home here 💛

[abstract-concepts]

spacedigital / spacevirtual

a gender in which your gender is related to virtual / digital themes and space, being a virtual / digital space being, being space and loving virtual / digital themes, being a virtual / digital being who loves space themes, etc!

can also be used by alterhumans :3

genderdigital system coined by @laughdiamond and you can find the original post here!

endo safe, radqueers dni

coined by me !

icon from here

[octobersartblog]

He’s sending his love from the stars! 🌟

[jdvi]

shhh

[futureceleste]

More dnd art. An npc that showed up, slayed, and immediately disappeared. We love you Butt! 😔😭😔

[videolover]

i should take "amab" out of my bio i need a better thing to call myself but i don't have a word that doesn't imply something about my gender that i dislike. which i could just get over and call myself a trans woman like i do with my friends i guess... but that actually makes me almost as uncomfortable as calling myself a cis man. you'll see me call myself transfem or a trans woman sometimes because it is *less* gross to me but... i don't knowwww. i feel like "amab she/he" is the only thing that both kind of gets across what i am and doesn't communicate something i'm uncomfortable with. so it stays.

[sketchbook-gal-xe]

‧ ₊˚ ∗ Andromeda ∗˚₊ ‧

it's a weird mix of the andromeda galaxy, the greek legend, and me cuz my name is andromeda :P

(also, Yeeeee look at it! I've never made anything like this and it looks so good!!)