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Tumblr is a social media platform that gained popularity in the 2010s. Users maintain blogs (potentially multiple per account) that allow them to publish original posts as well as to "reblog" others' posts. Reblogs function similarly to Twitter's "retweet" function but allow optional additions to the post body (which are displayed under the original posts) or to tags (displayed only on the reblogger's blog). This allows multiple discussions to branch off from an original post. | Tumblr is a social media platform that gained popularity in the 2010s. Users maintain blogs (potentially multiple per account) that allow them to publish original posts as well as to "reblog" others' posts. Reblogs function similarly to Twitter's "retweet" function but allow optional additions to the post body (which are displayed under the original posts) or to tags (displayed only on the reblogger's blog). This allows multiple discussions to branch off from an original post. | ||
Culturally, Tumblr is extremely popular with LGBTQ people and hosts a wide range of content related to non-binary issues. Many pieces of non-binary language and iconography originated on Tumblr, and there are a large number of single-issue blogs that center on non-binary issues. It is also common for Tumblr users to list their pronouns and gender identities on their personal blogs. | Culturally, Tumblr is extremely popular with LGBTQ people and hosts a wide range of content related to non-binary issues. Many pieces of non-binary language and iconography originated on Tumblr, and there are a large number of single-issue blogs that center on non-binary issues. It is also common for Tumblr users to list their pronouns and gender identities on their personal blogs. | ||
Researcher Abigail Oakley | Researcher Abigail Oakley suggests that Tumblr gained popularity among non-binary users because it affords them anonymity and the ability to portray themselves in ways that diverge from their everyday personas.<ref name=":0">Oakley, Abigail, and Dame-Griff, Avery. "A Conversation about Gender/Sexual Variant and Transgender Labeling and Networking on Tumblr". Featured in ''a tumblr bookː platform and cultures.'' Edited by Allison McCracken et al. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press. October 2020.</ref> | ||
== Gender terms originating on Tumblr == | == Gender terms originating on Tumblr == | ||
Tumblr has a strong culture of coining and promoting new gender terminology, including terms like "[[enby]]" (suggested by revolutionator in 2013) and "[[xenogender]]" (coined in 2014 by Baaphomett).<ref>Baaphomett. "Masterpost of genders coined by Baaphomett." ''Mogai-Archive.'' Original post where these were coined, which is lost: <nowiki>http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91736136744/masterpost-of-genders-coined-by-baaphomett</nowiki> Archive of that post: <nowiki>https://purrloinsucks.tumblr.com/post/95720973644/masterpost-of-genders-coined-by-baaphomett</nowiki> Archive of that archive: <nowiki>https://archive.is/yULU0#selection-169.2-169.93</nowiki></ref> | Tumblr has a strong culture of coining and promoting new gender terminology, including terms like "[[enby]]" (suggested by revolutionator in 2013) and "[[xenogender]]" (coined in 2014 by Baaphomett).<ref>Baaphomett. "Masterpost of genders coined by Baaphomett." ''Mogai-Archive.'' Original post where these were coined, which is lost: <nowiki>http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91736136744/masterpost-of-genders-coined-by-baaphomett</nowiki> Archive of that post: <nowiki>https://purrloinsucks.tumblr.com/post/95720973644/masterpost-of-genders-coined-by-baaphomett</nowiki> Archive of that archive: <nowiki>https://archive.is/yULU0#selection-169.2-169.93</nowiki></ref> According to Oakley, non-binary communities on Tumblr develop new terminology at an "advanced rate", and some terms which originate on Tumblr are not adopted outside the platform.<ref name=":0" /> | ||
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