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The 2024 Gender Census is now open!

[ Link to survey ]

The 11th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th June 2024.

It’s short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 40,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

For the curious, you can also spy on some graphs and demographic data for the incoming responses here.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

Image credit: Malachite and rhodochrosite.

#reblog

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KIM GOEUN in EXHUMA 파묘 (2024)

#exhuma

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Nobody ever posts the original sickos image anymore........sad!

#pft #that's hilarious but also concerning how many people don't realize this is satire when it's obviously so ?

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just heard someone pronounce aroace as a-row-chee. like an italian pasta. i'm still in shock

#lgbtqia #pft

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downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because

followed by

is such a funny sequence

#pft

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"to endure!"

vincent van gogh ("trees and undergrowth") robert lowell [How will the heart endure?] vincent van gogh [I must endure bad times and the waters will rise, possibly as high as the lips and possibly even higher, how can I know beforehand? But I’ll fight my fight and sell my life dearly and try to win and pull through.] rainer maria rilke [To be loved means to be consumed. To love means to radiate with inexhaustible light. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.] joan didion [Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it.] elena ferrante [maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.] elena ferrante [I will give what I can give, I will take what I can take, I will endure what has to be endured.] han kang [The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure.] victor frankl [What is to give light must endure burning.]

#scribbles

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I'm very happy for you. I just don't wanna feel left out. ZENDAYA, JOSH O'CONNOR, & MIKE FAIST as TASHI DUNCAN, PATRICK ZWEIG, & ART DONALDSON in CHALLENGERS (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

#challengers

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I'm very happy for you. I just don't wanna feel left out. ZENDAYA, JOSH O'CONNOR, & MIKE FAIST as TASHI DUNCAN, PATRICK ZWEIG, & ART DONALDSON in CHALLENGERS (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

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you’re just like the rest of them

#thomas the tank engine

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Say what you want about the 2023 Shakespeare in The Park production of Hamlet, but the choices made in that play WORKED. Having Hamlet wear a black hoodie and camo pants and him dramatically putting his hood up when he was pissed off was inspired. Having Horatio video tape Claudius on an iPhone camera from the side of the stage during the play within the play was hilarious. Having the play within the play be a hip hop dance number that represented the murder!?! Fantastic. Having Ophelia be a singer before she went mad and having a beautiful voice that everyone loved to listen to and then seeing her singing get worse and worse as she got nearer to death?!?! Hamlet pulling out his iphone after killing Polonius to show his mom a picture of his dad compared to a picture of Claudius and angrily swiping back and forth between the two as he said “What judgement would step from this… to this?” The crowd fucking lost it every time. Horatio singing to Hamlet as he died made me fully sob every time. The way they did the ghost on stage was so chilling and I can’t even accurately describe it, you just had to be there. Hamlet being deeply exasperated the entire time was just perfect. Hamlet and Horatio had a secret handshake. Laertes inexplicably carried an acoustic guitar case for much of the play which was very funny but also hit you with the heartbreaking implication that he had used to play while Ophelia sang and he stopped carrying it after she died. It was peak teenage-angst-hamlet and it was so dear to me. PLEASE if anyone has a recording, send it to me.

#hamlet

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#crabs #video

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Rachel Weisz as Evelyn Carnahan and Brendan Fraser as Rick O'Connell THE MUMMY 1999 | dir. Stephen Sommers

#the mummy

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get to know me meme >> Favorite Movies [30/?] But I'm a Cheerleader

I’m not perverted! I get good grades! I go to church! I’m a cheerleader! I’m not like all of you!

#but i'm a cheerleader

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On May 7th, 1770, Marie Antoinette was officially handed over to France. A special structure was built for the occasion (middle photo) which was divided into three sections–she would would begin the ceremony on the Austrian side of the structure, complete the ceremony in the center room, and then be presented to her French retinue in the second half of the building.

As part of the remise, or handover ceremony, Marie Antoinette was stripped of her Austrian clothing, Austrian attendants, and anything that might be construed as symbolizing her former allegiance to Austria; she was redressed in a French ensemble and presented as the dauphine of France.

#marie antoinette

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CHALLENGERS (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

#challengers

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An interesting demonstration of how the human brain works.

But also something of a lesson regarding perception, and the unreliability of subjective perspective versus objective reality.

You can be extremely certain about how you perceive the world, your "lived experience," that which you "feel it in my heart." But that doesn't mean it's actually true. And it doesn't mean we have to endorse it, or ignore or outright deny objective reality.

That's a "you" thing, not a "we" thing.

#science

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I thinks folks expressing incredulity at the quality of the writing and composition in Calvin and Hobbes are often missing the context that Bill Watterson is arguably the most influential sequential artist of his generation. Like, this is a guy who once told the editors of nationally syndicated newspapers to go fuck themselves when they wanted to mess with his panel layouts, and not only did he keep his job, he got his way. He could have had literally any gig he wanted, and he chose to be the Sunday funnies guy because that's what made him happy. He's basically the Weird Al of sequential art.

#bill watterson