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A '''Drone''', in the field of queer fetishism, is an individual body that exists as part of a hivemind. The idea of hiveminds originates in entomology, but has also become a staple of science fiction, occultism, robotics, and queer fetishism. Drones within an insect or science fiction context are often depicted as having no gender, or a gender relating to the hive itself. This has lead to fetishism treating the process of becoming a drone as a transgender experience.{{citation needed}} Some people also identify as dronegender, or alternatively swarmgender/hivegender. | A '''Drone''', in the field of queer fetishism, is an individual body that exists as part of a hivemind. The idea of hiveminds originates in entomology, but has also become a staple of science fiction, occultism, robotics, and queer fetishism. Drones within an insect or science fiction context are often depicted as having no gender, or a gender relating to the hive itself. This has lead to fetishism treating the process of becoming a drone as a transgender experience.<ref name=":4" />{{citation needed}} Some people also identify as dronegender, or alternatively swarmgender/hivegender. | ||
==Entomology and Computer Science== | ==Entomology and Computer Science== | ||
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==Dronification Fetish== | ==Dronification Fetish== | ||
Drones saw increased attention within the queer community with the introduction of the dronification fetish, the most prominent example being Hexcorp.<ref>https://www.hexcorp.net/</ref><ref name=":4">https://cashmeremag.com/dronification-kink-849537/</ref> The goal of the dronification fetish is to remove the feeling of personhood from the submissive. The creator of Hexcorp is transgender, and dronification is said to appeal to trans people due to freedom from societal constraints regarding name, body, disability, and personhood itself. To become a drone is to relinquish gender, and substitute it with obedience.{{citation needed}} | Drones saw increased attention within the queer community with the introduction of the dronification fetish, the most prominent example being Hexcorp.<ref>https://www.hexcorp.net/</ref><ref name=":4">https://cashmeremag.com/dronification-kink-849537/</ref> The goal of the dronification fetish is to remove the feeling of personhood from the submissive. The creator of Hexcorp is transgender, and dronification is said to appeal to trans people due to freedom from societal constraints regarding name, body, disability, and personhood itself. To become a drone is to relinquish gender, and substitute it with obedience.<ref name=":4" />{{citation needed}} | ||
==Queer Understanding== | ==Queer Understanding== | ||
All understandings of the hivemind and the drone are inherently nonbinary. The conception of gender held by an ant or a bee is not a man/woman dichotomy of male homeowner and female childrearer.{{citation needed}} For bees, female workers manage all the non-reproductive tasks of the hive and are sterile.<ref>https://www.mdbka.com/bee-information/</ref> Star Trek's Borg drones are queer<ref>https://www.startrek.com/en-un/news/seven-of-nine-was-always-queer</ref>, and the minions of the Zerg have no use for gender.<ref>https://www.starcraftforum.com/threads/zerg-protoss-genders.117/</ref> The drones of a simulated swarm, like virtually all computer programs, have no gender. Trans people choosing to give up gender in favour of dronification relive their transgender experiences in a safe environment.<ref name=":4" /> The nature of the drone is, in all explored cases, queer.{{citation needed}} | All understandings of the hivemind and the drone are inherently nonbinary. The conception of gender held by an ant or a bee is not a man/woman dichotomy of male homeowner and female childrearer.<ref>https://modernfarmer.com/2013/05/fact-checking-bee-movie/</ref><ref>https://www.beepods.com/114099-2/</ref>{{citation needed}} For bees, female workers manage all the non-reproductive tasks of the hive and are sterile.<ref>https://www.mdbka.com/bee-information/</ref> Star Trek's Borg drones are queer<ref>https://www.startrek.com/en-un/news/seven-of-nine-was-always-queer</ref>, and the minions of the Zerg have no use for gender.<ref>https://www.starcraftforum.com/threads/zerg-protoss-genders.117/</ref> The drones of a simulated swarm, like virtually all computer programs, have no gender. Trans people choosing to give up gender in favour of dronification relive their transgender experiences in a safe environment.<ref name=":4" /> The nature of the drone is, in all explored cases, queer.{{citation needed}} | ||
This has lead to some people taking on nonbinary identities specifically as a drone. In the 2023 Gender Census, less than 0.1 % of respondents identified as such.{{Gender Census|2023}} | This has lead to some people taking on nonbinary identities specifically as a drone. In the 2023 Gender Census, less than 0.1 % of respondents identified as such.{{Gender Census|2023}} | ||