#ambisexuated

[beyond-mogai-pride-flags]

Female Aphrodisian Pride Flag

Salmacian or aphrodisian: a term for people who desire or currently have mixed sex traits (such as gonadal, genital, corporeal, etc.); projecting oneself as ambiguously sexed (ambisexed); or conceptualizing one's body as sexually ambiguous (ambiadic).

#female #salmacian #aphrodisian #pride flags #mod ap #woman #ambiguously sexed #ambisex #ambissexed #bissexed #bisexous #ambisexuous #bisexuous #ambisexous #bisséxuo #ambisséxuo #ambisexué #ambisexuation #bisexuation #bisexuated #ambisexuated #zwitterhaft #bissexuado #ambissexuado #bissexuada #ambissexuada #ambissexuade #bissexuade #bisexuado #bisexué

[obsidian-obliterator]

Ally to all Homo, Bi, and A Romantics and Sexuals

#straight ally #ally #homoseuxality #homoromantic #bisexual #asexual #aromantic #aroace #heteroromantic #heterosexual #gyneromantic #gynesexual #androromantic #androsexual #ambiromantic #ambisexual #tumblr

[weboftigers]

"The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin ❄️🤲

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#the left hand of darkness #ursula k. le guin #genly ai #estraven #hainish cycle #fantasy #scifi #science fiction #ambisexual #literature #lit #book #book recommendation

[saccharinescorpion]

the writing of Pikmin 4 is very interesting to me. the plot is extremely straightforward and simple, but there’s a surprising amount of side chatter (i’ve played over 50 in-game days so far and i think i’ve only gotten a single repeat of the-end-of-day dialogue between the crew). more than that though, there’s a lot of in-universe writing. there’s the Rescue Journal, which ostensibly is supposed to be a How To Play guide, but also includes Captain Shepherd’s diary which gives some surpririsng depth to a character that’s mostly comic relief. similarly Olimar has his voyage log, which from a gameplay point of view are meant as a guide for the player to how to approach certain areas and obstacles but also details his melancholy recollections of home

there’s also the in-game encyclopedias for monsters (the “Piklopedia”) and treasures (the Treasure Catalog), which have a description for every single entry, each written in the unique voice of their respective in-universe writers. but (spoilers) once Olimar is rescued he contributes his own entries to both encyclopedias, and an interesting dichotomy appears between the two. Olimar goes into a LOT of detail for his entries for the Piklopedia (which by the way already provided in-universe family names and scientific names for each creature) using a lot of real world biology terms the average layman probably wouldn’t know (notochord, protochordate, ambisexual, to name a few) and i can’t imagine the average 8-12 year old being familiar with. then when you move onto the Treasure Catalog a huge chunk of his notes are just him thinking about his wife and kids. it’s very cute, but there’s also a surprising amount of very mature musing-- stuff like thinking about getting older and the importance of self-care not for vanity’s sake but for the sake of your loved ones, thinking about how being ambitious in your career means exploiting those under you, thinking about the interactions between child and parent and how they change with age and perspective. thinking about fruit. thinking about his wife, son and daughter. a lot. it’s very, very cute

i know it’s trite to joke about how Pikmin, with its morbid premise and punishing gameplay, doesn’t seem like its for kids, but i really do wonder how kids react to it. can they understand the ruminating about responsibilty and adulthood? what do they think about all the melancholy and the bittersweetness? its hard for me to imagine children really connecting to something like that... but i think we underestimate children a lot. in any case, i’m glad they get the chance to play something this offbeat and thoughtful, and i’m glad i have the chance too! this weird somewhat sad atmosphere is one of things that has really endeared me to this game, and i’m glad i gave it a try

other than all of that, the character relationships are mostly pretty barebones. i did enjoy the minor subplot regarding Dingo the Rescue Corps ranger abandoning Bernard the pilot only for Bernard to return and slowly drive Dingo to madness via passive aggressive psychological warfare

#pikmin 4 #why did i write so much about this #i mostly just wanted to think about how Olimar is cute #pikmin

[aurpiment]

tlhod’s Gender Situation as written in 1968 (published in 1969) was about a man from Earth who goes to another planet inhabited by alternate-bio ambisexual humans who are completely like Earth humans in every other respect. The man from Earth at first expects them to be like men in a way that’s recognizable to him, and that expectation causes him some struggles in relating to them, but he then comes to accept them on their own terms.

An updated look at that Gender Situation might be about a nonbinary person from Earth who goes to another planet inhabited by alternate-bio ambisexual humans who are completely like Earth humans in every other respect. The nonbinary person from Earth at first expects them to be like nonbinary people in a way that’s recognizable to them, and that expectation causes them some struggles in relating to them, but they then come to accept them on their own terms.

Mutatis mutandis since “nonbinary” is a way, way broader category than “man” (hello multigenders I love you) but people who have never heard of gender are going to have a different, for lack of a better word, thing going on than someone who is familiar with a gender binary and has rejected it.

(I also think having a normal earth queer person interact with members of a fantasy gender/lack of gender would be interesting. Real deal meets metaphor. It’s like if an actual trans woman met Jadzia Dax.)

#mt #the left hand of darkness #the way some people read the book and go ‘silly Genly Ai! of course they’re not men they’re nonbinary’ makes me go #‘you ARE Genly Ai 2.0.’ #and I say this with love because he’s a great character but also with a bit of mischief #Joanna Russ’s take on the gender situation was ‘if a woman went to a women planet she would think it ruled’ #but the women from the woman planet are actually recognizably women and are also from earth #not a spec-bio new human #that the earth woman tries to fit into an existing framework #so of course she thinks it rules. they’re lesbians. #meeting women from Planet Lesbian would obviously rule #so I think Russ has addressed a completely different gender situation #but she thought she addressed the same one

[damnesdelamer]

What flavour of communist and/or gay are you? /Gen

I'm not really sure what this means.

Not to spout clichés or take myself too seriously, but to some extent I think labels confine us within rigid structures which ultimately only serve our enemies. I know it's just a shortcut, but even the fact that you say 'flavour' kinda reiterates the idea that lots of the associated terminology positions us as existing for consumption.

Of course I know language matters. Indeed, I think a disproportionately large amount of leftist in-fighting is down to word choice and communication. More often than not, when anarchists refer to the state and Leninists refer to capital or bourgeois democracy, we're all talking about the same systems of harm and oppression. I also believe that what's most important is what we do, not how we identify.

I actively avoid the 'discourse' surrounding queer terminology. For years in my youth I railed against the word 'bisexual' because I didn't like that it implied I have two distinct sexualities, and for awhile I even called myself 'ambisexual' in an attempt to prompt a deconstruction thereof. But then I decided that I like the colours of the bi flag, which is really all that matters, because it's just aesthetics.

So I guess let me put it this way: I'm a trade union organiser who specifically represents queer union members. I grew up reading Marx, and some of the greatest influences through my adolescence on how I approach the world were Gramsci and Mao, and later Fanon and Butler. I spent a lot of my twenties questioning whether I count as trans, as I have always been very comfortable with both my masculinity and my femininity, but at some point I realised very clearly that the gender I was assigned at birth is not reflected in either.

I very strongly believe in the value of Lenin and Leninism to global struggle; but likewise I have taken a lot from Malatesta, Luxemburg, Adorno, and so on. I also think, while they are to be scrutinised rigorously, there is much to be gained from the likes of Trotsky, Foucault, or ‎Žižek. I am a staunch anti-Zionist, but Memmi nevertheless teaches us a great deal about the plight of the colonised.

I am probably closer to an orthodox Marxist than I am to a Leninist or anarchist, but ultimately I think all this orthodoxy reeks of bourgeois affectation. The questions we should be asking are: who is most impacted by the realities of a given situation, and what are they saying, what do they need? Once upon a time in the west, and certainly still in most cases, this is BIPOC and sexual others, so we read Davis and Feinberg and Öcalan and Ahmed and Tuck and Yang. It is the strength of the revolutionary to adapt to the material conditions at hand, and remain undaunted.

In the end, we have more in common with one another than we have with ruling classes, right? So let us gather together! If this is the final struggle, let each stand in our place.

#Marxism #Antonio Gramsci #Lenin #Judith Butler #Rosa Luxemburg #Angela Davis #Leslie Feinberg #Sara Ahmed #Tuck & Yang #Marx #Karl Marx #V.I. Lenin #Mao Zedong #Mao Tse-Tung #Theodor Adorno #Errico Malatesta #Albert Memmi #Abdullah Öcalan #Eve Tuck #K. Wayne Yang #original #communism #communist #Frantz Fanon #ask

[franky-draws]

Fanart for the scifi story The left Hand of Darkness by Ursula le Guin released in 1969.

The story is my favourite kind of scifi, not an extrapolation of current trends, but an exploration of new concepts. A planet, which population is almost entirely ambisexual. What kind of culture would develop without a fixed sex?

The human male Genly Ai from Terra is sent as an envoy to the winter planet Gethen. While trying to navigate the complex structure of the Gethern society and politics he get close to Estraven, the "prime minister" of the kingdom Karhide. When the paranoid King of Karhide turn on Estraven and charges him with treason, it's not safe in Karhide for Genly anymore as well.

If i had to describe the Gethen: Ambisexial Vikings during an ice age, nordic myths with a touch of taoism

Overall I loved the book, it is very queer, but it is held back by some choices. For example the pronoun used for the Getheners is 'he/him' which made me think of them as male throughout the entire book. Heteronormativity is enforced through the way Getheners reproduce: During heat one turns male, one female. While who turns into what is random, it reinforces our status quo.

#art #my art #artists on tumblr #illustration #the left hand of darkness #ursula le guin #mountains #landscape

[spiderfreedom]

I read a book a while back about the erotic appeal of 'women with penises' (don't close the page yet I promise it's useful). the book was called Ambisexuality. it's basically two things, a history of the sexual fantasy of a 'woman with a penis' and a study of transgender women sex workers in australia. content warning for sex work and children forced into sex work.

in the history portion, one of the things it talks about is how it seems that prepubescent boys who enter the sex industry in some cultures are basically taught to perform femininity. dressed like women, taught to dance like women, perfume themselves like women, basically appear cosmetically like a woman. since prepubescent boys don't look too different from girls, many adult heterosexual johns found this attractive. the presence of the penis was considered a positive, because male customers knew how a penis worked and could understand it. from the book:

References to the training of older boys and young men, in the twin arts of seductive dancing and sex work, can be found in many historical religious texts, not just of Afghanistan but as an aspect of cultures in many cities in South Asia and the Middle East until modern times. [...] The historical record also provides clues that the link between feminised males and sex work even existed in some hunter-gatherer societies. In North America, the journalist and critic, Peter Ackroyd suggests that some native Indian societies accommodated feminised male sex work. The Pueblo Indians for example, maintained a mujerado, a 'trained male prostitute' in each village, who identified as a 'man-woman, not as a male [source mine]. Similarly, records suggest that the berdache were males who took on the roles of wife, communal concubine, prostitute and participant in certain sexual rites of native Indian tribes. The berdache wore women's clothing, did women's work and in sexual relations with their male partners, behaved like women as far as possible. Many Roman brothels offered boys of different races, skin colours and professional abilities. Boys from the Middle East, for example, were prized for their dancing abilities and exotic appearance, while boys from Northern Europe were valued for their bawdiness and sensuality. Some brothel owners refined the process of procuring, raising and training very young boys to an art form. Boys considered to possess the appropriate attributes were purchased as young as two or three years of age and were raised and trained by their owners. Their sole purpose in life was to entertain men and pander to the sexual tastes of wealthy clients. Many of these boys were feminised during their training. They were beautifully groomed and perfumed, had unwanted body hair removed and wore their hair long and curly. Some were trained to perform for their clients - as dancers, mimes, singers and storytellers. All were trained in fellatio, sodomy and analingus.

it's disturbing to think about how femininity is conflated with being attractive to men, so much that you can take a prepubescent boy, dress him up like a woman, and apparently plenty of people go "yeah, this is the perfect sex object, like a woman but better."

it also had a section on how trans women and gender non conforming men who dressed femininely across the world were basically often forced into prostitution. since they could not find employment due to their gender nonconformity, the only place they could get money was as prostitutes. being feminine dressed also meant they could make more money than gay male prostitutes who dressed in masculine style. from the book:

According to some cultural historians, the reason why the xanith presented as women was to enable them to make a living from sex work. As will be seen later, the suggestion that this lifestyle is driven by 'economic necessity' probably belies a considerable degree of individual choice in the matter. For many, the rewards of sex work led to a comfortable lifestyle, which was infinitely preferable to other occupations which paid less, demanded longer working hours and offered fewer other intrinsic benefits such as personal gifts.

there's a myth that there exists a certain type of person who enjoys being prostituted, because of some social category they belong to. it has variably applied to women of the lower classes, black people, gay men, and in this topic, trans women. it exists to excuse the dehumanization of these groups who are excluded from normal labor markets, experience higher rates of poverty, and enter sex work to make money.

i've noticed some radfems have suggested that trans women prostitutes 'enjoy' being prostitutes, on the basis of quotes from bailey's book 'the man who would be queen' and taking twitter quotes from unverifiable 'trans sex workers' at face value. but i would be very hesitant to believe that. just in the same way you would not believe a woman who told you she 'loves sex work' without doing further research on her background to see if this statement is honest or produced by trauma, you should also consider the same for transgender women and gender non conforming men. especially since they are often forced out of legitimate labor industry for gender nonconformity.

the idea that trans women inherently love prostitution reinforces the idea that there are feminine people who it is okay to degrade and treat as sex objects, because they love it. the femininity is taken to be a lure to men and proof that they love being 'used'. there may be some portion who are 'erotic professionals' who love it, just like there are women who say they same, but there's a high rate of traumatic background from trans women who become prostitutes. and that's before whatever traumatization happens during prostitution.

in short, there's a dirty history of treating gender non conforming male people as the sort of perfect sex object, the ideal combination of feminine presentation and "comprehensible" male anatomy. radfems should not help this myth by repeating it mindlessly. all this does is spread the idea that a. being dressed feminine means you exist to lure men, b. there exists a 'perfect sex object' who wants nothing more than endless sex with strangers for money, whose trauma, poverty, mental illness play no role in their life, and c. therefore there is no need to include these people in efforts to exit the prostitution industry, because they "love" it after all. no human is a perfect sex object. accepting that it can happen to one group of people means you naturalize it and allow the possibility it can happen to you.

#sex industry #mypost #\ transmisogyny #radical feminism #i've seen this sort of thing and i don't think it's a good idea to reproduce about sex workers living in poverty working the streets #onlyfans is something else for another topic #but it's very disturbing to read this history of basically fetishizing “feminine boys” as perfect sex objects #and then compare that to how trans women/gnc men are overwhelmingly in prostitution #this is relevant to female people because it presumes that there exist 'perfect sex objects' and there do not

[lazycranberrydoodles]

Could you perhaps provide a link to the fengqing fic you mentioned in the tags of the lesbian fengqing post? 👀

of course! a biography of the male favorite by @missveryvery <333

What if TGCF was a little more like certain dynasties and male consorts and ambisexual royalty were de rigueur? And Xie Lian picking out a beautiful servant boy to be his friend meant Mu Qing got all the benefits that real male consorts got? Also, Mu Qing was freaked out the whole time because Xie Lian and Feng Xin are thoughtless, rich dumbasses. Also contains: what if Feng Xin had a backstory, political intrigue, and was extremely hot?

#not art #fic rec #my favorite fengqing fic my beloved #it has everything. classism. history. incredible character development. more history. i just like history ok

[ipsogender]

Alternative language for biology of sex without using "hermaphrodite"

So, you're worldbuilding a scifi alien species or a fantasy race that can reproduce as both male and female. Or you're a biologist or science educator. And you want what you're writing/making to be inclusive to intersex people.

The term hermaphrodite in biology refers to species that can reproduce as both male or female. The problem is it's also a slur when used against intersex people (it's also incorrect - we're not hermaphrodites). I recently polled other intersex folks informally and a plurality were fine with the h-word being used with the correct meaning in appropriate contexts. But the qualitative feedback I got was, all things equal, most people who wrote to me said they'd just be happier seeing the term less.

So here is a glossary of words you can use to talk about the biology of sex without invoking the h-word:

Gonochoric species where individuals (typically) reproduce only as either male or female. This means the species produces two types of gametes that have different sizes, and conventionally the larger is female. Gono- for generation/reproduction and -choric for separated/distinct. Note that "non-gonochoric" includes both hermaphroditic species and those that can reproduce asexually (e.g. parthenogenesis).

Gonosyne: species where individuals (typically) can reproduce as both male or female. Gono- for generation/reproduction and syne for together/combined. This is a term I have coined to be an alternative to hermaphrodite.

Types of gonosyny: it's common to categorize different forms of gonosyny based on temporality and how many gonads an individual has.

Grouping by Temporality:

Cosex: species where individuals can reproduce as both male and female simultaneously. Alternative terms: cosexual, simultaneous hermaphrodism. For example: land snails/slugs typically mate by linking up both pairs of genitals.

Dichosex: gonosynic species where individuals reproduce as male and female at different times in their lives. Protandrous species start as male then switch to female; protogynous start female then switch to male. Some species cycle between the two (serial/bidirectional hermaphrodism/disexuality). Alternative terms: dichosexual, dichogamous, sequential hermaphrodism. I coined this one after feedback that "dichogamous" was not intuitive to non-botanists, keeping dicho- (in two parts/paired) for simplicity. Example animal: clownfish (the Finding Nemo fish).

Grouping by Gonads:

Digonic: species that can reproduce as both male and female because they have separate male and female gonads. Digony can be cosex or dichosex. In botany the term monoecious is used for flowering plants. For example: barnacles have their ovaries in the base of their body, and testes in the back of their head.

Syngonic: species that can reproduce as both male and female, because their gonads can produce both male and female gametes. Alternative terms: syncoecious, monoclinous, ambisexual. (Note ambisexual has other meanings.) Syngony can be cosex or dichosex. In dichosexual species the gonad changes which gametes it produces when the individual changes sex. For example: land slugs have a single gonad (ovotestis).

Together this makes four categories. Examples come from: Sex change in plants and animals: a unified perspective.

Syngonic cosexual. Simultaneous gonosyny within the same flower/gonad. Examples: Black-jack daisy, Lady of the Night cactus; mangrove killifish, stubby-root nematode.

Syngonic dichosexual. Non-simultaneous gonosyny within the same flower/gonad. Examples: Bromelia chrysantha, grape ivy; California sheephead fish, common limpet.

Digonic cosexual. Simultaneous gonosyny from different flowers/gonads. Examples: bitter melon, jaraguá grass; barnacles, flatworms.

Digonic dichosexual. Non-simultaneous gonosyny from different flowers/gonads. Examples: papaya, catsfoot; staghorn coral, earthworm.

Hope this is helpful! I have two little notes I want to add on: Note on "non-gonochoric": it's possible this could also include isogamous speries? There's some ambiguity in use. Isogamy refers to sexual reproduction where you don't have two different sized gametes - instead it's two identically sized gametes that are getting combined. This is the standard amongst unicellular eukaryotes and very common in fungi.

Note on ambisexual: this is the term that Ursula K LeGuin used for the dichosexual aliens in the Left Hand of Darkness. The term in biology these days refers to undifferentiated (immature) tissue that has yet to develop into a given sex - e.g. a human embryo has ambisexual gonads until sexual differentiation later on in development. The term ambisexual has a ton of other meanings in other contexts such as a sexual orientation. For this reason I'd personally avoid it.

#intersex #hermaphrodism #biology of sex #biology #botany #zoology #dichosexual #dichosex #dichosexuality #cosexual #cosex #cosexuality #syngony #digony #gonochoric #gonosynic #worldbuilding #sci-fi #writing #writing scifi #alien design #new term #ambisexual #xenobiology #speculative biology

[bidotorg]

Bisexuality is a general and inclusive term for attraction that is not limited to one sex, regardless of gender. Read about the bi umbrella here: https://bi.org/en/101/bi-umbrella

#bi umbrella #bisexual #pansexual #omnisexual #ambisexual #sexuality #identity #girls who love both #probably both #go both ways #lgbt #glbti👬👭🌈 #lgbtqplus #queer #the more you know #biplus

[mjjune]

DS

– introduction (updated 12/12/23)

now has a page here!!

genre // high fantasy, (loose) donkey-skin retelling demographics // adult (common sense rating pg-13) status // alpha readers in-progress length // 80k pov // first person past tense, dual pov setting // fantasy tropical archipelago rep // gender stuff main tag // w: ds banner credit // me, made with canva + unsplash (ID in alt text)

– details & taglist below

blurb //

In the tropical islands of Noia where humans are ambisexual and bound to dragons and water, Sasha lives on her family's rice farm in peace. Other than struggling to choose her role in society, she was happy, until mysterious poisonous amphibians emerge from the sea. They wreak havoc on the farm and her sibling is poisoned, but there is no antidote. Sasha must follow the monstrous salamanders to the neighboring island, an uninhabitable magical jungle infested with even worse monsters, to get a sample of the poison to make a cure. But the only person willing to help her on the impossible quest is a nomadic stranger—who she suspects is lying about who they are and what they want. Sasha treks into the jungle and must uncover the truth of both the poison and the stranger, or else it won't only be her family who suffers, but the entire island.

taglist // (updated 12/12/23)

@artbyeloquent @bebewrites @careful-fear @cherrybombfangirlwrites @cljordan-imperium @cocomerocollection @elijahrichardwrites @eventideintrigue @faithfire @flowerprose @garthcelyn @hope-hopefully-writes @isabellebissonrouthier @jamieanovels @kingkendrick7 @lexiklecksi @little-mouse-gardens @marrowwife @mr-writes @saintedseraph @saphoblin @thyroidhormones @treesandwords @wildswrites @wip-nook message or comment below to be added!

#writeblr #writblr #writers on tumblr #writeblr community #writerblr #writer community #wtwcommunity #writing community #novel writing #fantasy writing #ds intro #w: ds #my wip intro #my intro #50 #mj posts #let me know if you're interested in joining the taglist <3 #for DS specifically for my general list <3

[areyouthisidentity-polls]

Are you...

Gaybian, lesbigay, or lesgay refers to someone who is both gay and lesbian. One may also identify as or be considered bisexual, multisexual, pluralian, or ambisexual. However, one may not always consider bisexual to be an accurate description of their attraction, as the attraction they experience is always in a gay way.

#poll #tumblr poll #polls #tumblr polls #orientation #sexuality #mogai #lgbt #queer #gaybian #lesbigay #lesgay #lesbian #gay #multisexual

[catamaurrr-star]

WOKE genshin impact be like

shenHE/THEY albeDEMISEXUAL xiAROMANTIC GAYnyu zhongLESBIAN yaoyACE amBISEXUAL wriotheSHE/HER lyneTRANSGENDER

#i can do this all day #maurposting

[beyond-mogai-pride-flags]

Femarsic Pride Flag

Femarsic, femmarsic, femmascic, masfemaric, femasric, or mascfemaric: an umbrella term for those attracted to men and women; being both mascic and femaric (either fluidly or simultaneously).

This includes those who are, for example: ambisexual/ambiromantic, abrosexual/abroromantic or otherwise m-spec; womasexual maromantic or masexual womaromantic; centriorientation and multiorientation of gyne- and andro-.

The flag was designed by duwang-flags-inc. The term was coined by me. Not to be confused with femascic or marsic.

#femarsic #femaric #mascic #mogai #mod ap #pride flags #mspec #multisexual spectrum #multi #plurisexual #pluri #m spec #multispec #bi #bisexual #biromantic

[protoslacker]

“If we were socially ambisexual, if men and women were completely and genuinely equal in their social roles, equal legally and economically, equal in freedom, in responsibility, and in self-esteem, then society would be a very different thing. What our problems might be, God knows; I only know we would have them. But it seems likely that our central problem would not be the one it is now: the problem of exploitation – exploitation of the woman, of the weak, of the earth.” 

Ursula Le Guin from a 1976 essay, "Is Gender Necessary" on a page at the very cool M HKA Ensembles a Website of The Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp.

M HKA links to the book, Aurora: Beyond Equality--Wikipedia-- where the essay was first published. ncing at the Edge of the World:

In 1989 Le Guin published the essay with the subtitle "Redux" in Thoughts on Words, Women, Places, and in a reissue of The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. Here's a scholarly work on the topic, RASHLEY, L. H. (2007). REVISIONING GENDER: INVENTING WOMEN IN URSULA K. LE GUIN’S NONFICTION. Biography, 30(1), 22–47. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23540596. At least one PDF of the 1989 "Redux" is available online.

It's so interesting learning about how smart people learn.

#ursula le guin #writing #thinking #changing your mind #gender