#intersex writers

[ink-flavored]

hey intersex writers who consider themselves part of the queer community! i am making an ask game for pride month that will allow people to answer questions about their OCs and how they relate to gender, sexuality, and (ideally) intersexuality too. however, i am perisex, and i'm having a hard time coming up with questions and worried about coming up with insensitive ones, so i figured i would just ask you all:

what kinds of questions would you want to answer about your intersex OCs? what kinds of things are you itching to talk about?

what kinds of questions would you like to see other writers, intersex or perisex, with intersex OCs answer? obviously, i can't control who reblogs it, and there are doubtless perisex writers with intersex OCs who will want to play it.

what questions do you not want asked, even for an OC?

baseline information is that the game assumes that the OC in question considers themself part of the queer community (or the equivalent in their setting), because that's what the ask game is about. i feel like a more general intersex ask game, just about intersex people with no other mention of queerness or the queer community, would be best left to an intersex writer to create. i want to come at this from the perspective of letting writers talk about their intersex OCs, and for [queer] perisex writers especially, to think more about their character's intersexuality and how it impacts their life.

[narrator-navigator-storyteller]

to my fellow intersex people yearning for representation in characters: while you are waiting, you can make any fictional character you want intersex the government can't stop you. "they don't have [stereotypical intersex trait]" cool a lot of people don't. and also you can just give them to them. i gave a fictional guy gynocomastia because i wanted to. just intersex those guys. inter their sex nobody can stop you.

this is a hostage negotiation situation. for every show you make with no intersex rep we will make it have intersex rep.

[iz-nomerants]

Happy International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia Everyone! 🥳🎉🎊

[yourdailyqueer]

Thea Hillman

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Straight

DOB: Born 1971 

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish

Nationality: American

Occupation: Activist, poet, writer

Note: Has congenital adrenal hyperplasia and is Intersex

[goodluckclove]

A note to anyone who wants to read any of my books when they get released but can't order one for some reason: literally ask me and I'll just send you the doc. You don't have to give me anything in return.

Want to read Blind Trust or any future Songbird Elegy, but the price point of a new book isn't feasible, or you're in a place where ordering even a non-erotic queer romance could make things sketchy? Legitimately my DMs are open and I will send you the file myself. Fuck it, I'll send it tomorrow. Consider it an Advance Reader Copy, I don't know.

Is it a good business practice for someone hoping to be a successful writer? I don't know. I don't care. Aspec representation sucks so hard that if it's between me making a few dollars and you reading my book I'd rather you just read the book. In fact I'd be thrilled.

Let Scott and Edgar into your computer. They'll make you snacks and ask you about your day. Meaningful questions, too. They're both good listeners.

[poemswithouthomes]

What am I to do with this body but let it become me and allow it to leave me? 

[angel-archivist]

It's so interesting and so exceedingly frustrating how agab is being utilized now within the queer community as a way to isolate and sort nonbinary and genderqueer folks into binary boxes that determine their moral purity levels, and their authority to do and write and exist.

The way nonbinary writers are being put under accusation of fetishizing gay men while their AGAB is continually brought up in a way that feels like queer-space-approved misgendering.

The way feminist circles that are supposedly trans-inclusive will use the word AFAB in a way that implicitly but intentionally isolates nonbinary people who aren't AFAB from joining. It's for women*.

The way the language is already flawed and leaves out intersex folks from the conversations while focusing on a binary of sex that isn't truthful.

The constant obsessing over whether someone is AFAB or AMAB and whether or not that gives them the privilege to join, do, write, or be present in certain spaces really really concerns me. How are we supposed to dismantle a binary system of gender if we can't even move past forcibly assigning and focusing on people's genders assigned at birth?

[ineedhjalp]

intro!!

hi!!!!!!!!!

I’m INeedHjalp, but you can call me Adele or Hjalp.

I’m a 22 year old currently finishing up my Master’s in Elizabethan literature. I graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont on a partial scholarship and am working through a TON of student debt. I’m from Colorado, in El Paso County. I’m trying to become a screen actor but right now I’m working at a local ice cream place.

My favorite things are Shakespeare (particularly M*cbeth), Hozier, Columbo, and my current hyperfixation, Dead Boy Detectives. (FUCK YOU NETFLIX!!!!!!)

Depending on when it crosses my dash, I also reboot stuff from NBC Hannibal, Good Omens, Doctor Who, or some of my old fandoms like Magnus Chase or Night At the Museum.

I’m queer! I’m some flavor of bisexual and biromantic, but I’m also on the aroace spectrum. (I might be demi, I think?) I’m also on the nonbinary spectrum (I’m a guy. But I’m also a girl. It’s complicated).

My preferred pronouns are she/her, though I’m fine with anything, really.

Some of my LOVELY mutuals are @flowers-of-anise, @a-chaotic-business, @gayoticbeing, @homoquartz, @judeisunsure, @ineffablefood, @understand-some-thing-some-time, @that-one-greml1n, @lunarsolar1, and, of course, @andiv3r. (I’m forgetting SO MANY PEOPLE. If you are a moot and see this post and you aren’t included, PLEASE reach out. I’m quite forgetful.

I have undiagnosed ADHD. I would go to the doctor, but Money.

My tags:

#ineedhjalp — my tag for posts I make myself.

#hjalp lives — personal posts

#hjalp writes — my fics (check out my new dbda multichap!

#hjalp draws — nothing on here yet!!!!! I do do art though.

#hjalp answers — my asks! PLEASE ask me things!!

I do a LOT or reblogging. A LOT. You have been warned. It’s 99% reblogs on this blog, folks.

As of this moment, I have 2,823 Dead Boy Detectives photos saved to my camera roll.

I support queer people and their rights. I support intersex people and their rights. I support disabled & chronically ill people and their rights. I support women’s rights.

I DO NOT condone Neil Gaiman’s disgusting behavior. He’s dead to me.

I do not condone racism or sexism of any kind.

I don’t get the hate towards furries and therians. While I’m not one myself, bullying is never ok and people should just live their lives.

Trans women are women and trans men are men. Fuck the TERFs!

I will be voting for Kamala Harris in November. KEEP TRUMP AND THE CONSERVATIVES OUT OF OFFICE!!!!!!

FREE PALESTINE!!!! 🇵🇸

[fluideli123]

I have an emotional take about Shigaraki and just being born intersex and no one knows it, absolutely no one, but it affects his character and connects to his locked away memories, anyway, in this essay-

[ltfemrry]

Doll.

Tags: Harry bottom | Louis top | Harry boypussy | Louis rockstar | Harry femenine | Harry: he-him-she-her

Chapter: 1/1

Words: 1,052

Harry just went to accompany one of his friends to see a small band, he never thought he would end up against an alley wall while the band's lead singer is between his legs.

"Fuck me Louis, I'm not that delicate." "No, you're just a doll who likes to have a cock in her pretty pussy, you want me to fuck you, I'm going to."

[ipso-faculty]

Survey: meaning-making dyadic/endosex/perisex for nonhumans

SURVEY URL HERE: https://forms.gle/3PbGxTgGwxUvx9hn9

Okay, so I got this idea. We have three words for not intersex. They all mean the same thing in humans. And all three terms seem well-entrenched.

So why not take advantage of this and make meanings for dyadic, endosex & perisex that aren't all exactly the same thing? The question of what intersex is/isn't is ill-defined once we start talking about nonhumans. 🤔

We could define the three terms such that they all mean non-intersex in modern humans. But they could mean different things in nonhumans. Also historical eunuchs.

The audience I envisioned for this is science fiction writers & science communication folks, but anybody is welcome to fill it in! 😀

The survey is a little long, but you don't have to do it all at once. When you hit the submit button, Google will give you a URL that you can use to edit (and then re-submit) your answers, so as long as you *save* that URL you can finish it later! 👍️

The only required question in the survey is whether you're intersex or not. You don't have to be intersex to fill in this survey!

Have fun! Again, here's the link. ⬅️ I'll post a summary of the results in late October. 💜

[kittrrrr]

My submission for @breannasfluff 's DTIYS! Here's the link to the post explaining everything in case you're curious. I had another post ready, which I thought I saved to my drafts, but I couldn't find it.

Here are the flags, from top to bottom, left to right-

Legend: greyrose, pan

Wild: intersex, demiboy, omnisexual

Hyrule: non-binary/enby, asexual, queerplatonic

[adiharper]

Elven Mirror & Self-Born

From Fever Dreams; transgender and shamanic poetry.

By Ellen-Adele Harper

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B67VVS7V

[yourdailyqueer]

Alicia Roth Weigel

Gender: Female

Sexuality: N/A

DOB: Born 1990

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish

Nationality: American

Occupation: Activist, writer, journalist

Note 1: Has osteoperosis

Note 2: Is Intersex

[goodluckclove]

Things I Learned as a Perisex Author Writing an Intersex Protagonist:

You don't have to talk about their genitals

Body types can vary depending on condition

There are a variety of conditions

It actually doesn't need to pertain to the plot what that condition does to their genitals

Each condition comes with a set of certain health concerns that will likely play a part in the plot as a whole (Scott has low bone density and will develop osteopetrosis later on in his life)

A lot of people don't actually realize they're intersex until later on in life because it's not like being a werewolf or an X-Man.

I'm almost positive an intersex person will not complain if a perisex writer doesn't go into detail describing the state of their character's genitals

You can still ally with the cause of asexuality without speaking for them in terms of their struggles

You can just tell a cool story with an intersex lead

Them being intersex shouldn't be the most interesting thing about them

Middlesex is fucking trash

I don't mean to start discourse but because of my research I get a lot of intersexual posts on my dash and the heat of the day has me upset at the state of representation. I don't think I'm a perfect example but I've somehow managed to go 320k words into Songbird Elegy without exploiting Scott's body for the sake of novelty. It was actually very easy.

[grimgoregrimoire]

Happy pride! 🖤🤎🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Your love

Your light

Your fight

Your plight

An undying flame

Your pain is which the paths are paved

Craved, a savior who would no longer be enslaved to hate

It's all politics

But without that brick?

Without that wrath, we would have no path

After all, Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

Yet we were not born void of hardships

Pardon, we continue to fight least we might die for it

In the noon of the year

Each June, may we prune our thanks to you

All our thanks to Marsha P and everyone in between

Blessed be

Please have a happy and safe pride! 🖤