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Livejournal is a social media platform centered around journaling created in 1999. Users can upload entries to their personal journals, follow other users' journals, and make and receive comments on individual entries. The site also allows users to create and join "communities", which generally allow members to upload their own entries and serve as hubs for discussion of shared interests. | Livejournal is a social media platform centered around journaling created in 1999. Users can upload entries to their personal journals, follow other users' journals, and make and receive comments on individual entries. The site also allows users to create and join "communities", which generally allow members to upload their own entries and serve as hubs for discussion of shared interests. | ||
The first known Livejournal communities with a non-binary focus appeared in 2002. | The first known Livejournal communities with a non-binary focus appeared in 2002. | ||
Non-binary people also participated in some general trans communities, such as a community for "FTMs".<ref name=":3">Zimman, Lal, and Hayworth, Will. "Lexical Change as Sociopolitical Change in Trans and Cis Identity Labels: New Methods for the Corpus Analysis of Internet Data". ''Selected Papers from New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 47)''. January 15 2020. https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/45253</ref> | |||
== Communities == | Trans scholar Cassius Adair views the social networks of queer and trans young people that formed on Livejournal as a precursor to non-binary and transmasculine networking on [[Tumblr]].<ref>Adair, Cassius. "Delete Yr Account: Speculations on Trans Digital Lives and the Anti-Archival, Part I: Are You Sure?". Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory. 2019.</ref> | ||
== Non-binary Communities == | |||
=== genderqueer (active 2002-2017) === | === genderqueer (active 2002-2017) === | ||
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As of 2024, the community had 3,028 members and 24,309 journal entries. | As of 2024, the community had 3,028 members and 24,309 journal entries. | ||
== Trans Communities == | |||
A linguistic analysis of an FTM-oriented Livejournal community conducted by Lal Zimman and Will Hayworth suggests that participants were more likely to use the term "genderqueer" to describe themselves than "non-binary", a term which emerged later.<ref name=":3" /> "Genderqueer" was also more commonly used among users than "agender", "genderfluid", "genderfuck", and "bigender".<ref name=":3" /> | |||
== Removal of "Unspecified" Gender Option == | == Removal of "Unspecified" Gender Option == | ||