FLAGS
Let's talk about flags! As with all other parts of the LGBTQIA+, also for Androgyne there are a lot of pride flags. Some of them have meanings that are known, for others they are not known, but let's go step by step:
The aesthetics of my blog, and even my posts themselves, contain colors taken from or photos of this flag. This why? Because This is the official androgyne pride flag, or the most used / common / known, and also for more practical reasons I decided to base the aesthetic part of this blog on this flag, so that those who chew the topic or already know about it, can immediately catch the eye through the vision of these classic colors.
The pink means femininity, the light blue masculinity, and the purple a mix of them both, you can probably understand it even without explanations, and this is precisely the beauty of this flag: it is easy to understand, simple, symbolic.
(Fun fuct, that's also how I found out about androgyne! I had only seen a photo of the flag with the name of the gender it represents in description, and I had understood everything even before informing myself about it)
Perhaps some of you will think that colors are very stereotyped, and if this is partly true, on the other hand androgyny as identity and movement aims to break gender roles and the suffocating binary system, taking both or completely denying them.
This is the most known alternative of the original flag. The red means woman, the blue man, the purple a mix of the two, but there is also the yellow that represent nonbinary-ness and grey for neutrality.
Also this is a very common alternative, and my favorite for the meaning.
The black and the white stand for the fact that androgyne could be more binary than other identities, the pink is the femininity (understood as gender or aesthetically) the light blue is masculinity (again with gender-meaning or aesthetically) and they are divided from the purple, that is a comfortable blending of the two that made up the unique identity of androgynes.
This is very particular! And it brokes the pink-purple-blue system. In fact it is less known that the orange is a color that means masculinity, and purple can mean femininity, despite to being used as a symbol of the mix between the two binary genders.
In the middle we have white, that means the absence of gender (like the nonbinary and the genderqueer flags), with the Necker Cube, an optical illusion symbol of the androgyne community, because it is concave or convex based on how you look at it.
I really love the stripes of this flag!
The dark blue stripe means masculinity, the light blue stripe means community, the purple stripe androgyne identity, the light pink represents love, and finally the dark pink represents femininity.
Here we have green, that is a gender neutral color, that represents the androgyny achieved through the negation of masculine and feminine caracteristics. But we have also the purple, which represents androgyny obtained instead from the combination of masculinity and femininity caracteristics. Purple and green are also complementary colors and they symbolizes the fact that the androgyne is an identity that is both masculine and feminine, but also a gender on its own.
FOLLOWING THE FLAGS THAT DON'T HAVE A CERTAIN MEANING:
For me it's not a big deal anyway, I believe that the colors speak by their own ^-^
OUTDATED FLAGS:
The meaning is a little bit uncertin but it's believed that grey represents neutrality/outside the binary and the two stripes represent the equality of the two genders
AND NOW:
It's up to you to choose the flag that fits your experience best :)
What's your favorite flag?
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I overhead a little girl asking her mum whether I was a girl or a boy and that definitely made my day 😍😭
I HAVE SUCCESSFULLY ACHEIVED MAXIMUM ANDROGYNY
AND, I was also wearing a dress, this means I must be super extra androgynous.
I'm going to cry 🥺😍
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