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The original moderator of the Aporagender blog on tumblr coined the word aporagender in 2014.<ref>http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/88328947879/aporagender-is-a-term-recently-coined-by-me {{dead link}}</ref> The person who coined the word "aporagender" made it as an alternative to [[aliagender]], due to concerns that aliagender might be "[[ethnicity and culture#Racism and cultural discrimination|racist]] or appropriative."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/103598129904/aporagender-vs-aliagender|title= aporagender vs. aliagender|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20160310055217/https://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/103598129904/aporagender-vs-aliagender |date=25 November 2014 |archive-date=10 March 2016}}</ref> | The original moderator of the Aporagender blog on tumblr coined the word aporagender in 2014.<ref>http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/88328947879/aporagender-is-a-term-recently-coined-by-me {{dead link}}</ref> The person who coined the word "aporagender" made it as an alternative to [[aliagender]], due to concerns that aliagender might be "[[ethnicity and culture#Racism and cultural discrimination|racist]] or appropriative."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/103598129904/aporagender-vs-aliagender|title= aporagender vs. aliagender|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20160310055217/https://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/103598129904/aporagender-vs-aliagender |date=25 November 2014 |archive-date=10 March 2016}}</ref> | ||
[[File:Aporagender-2.png|alt=A variation of aporagender flag|thumb|An alternative aporagender flag, proposed to due to discontent with the original flag.]] | [[File:Aporagender-2.png|alt=A variation of aporagender flag|thumb|An alternative aporagender flag, proposed to due to discontent with the original flag.]] | ||
Hyaenahart designed the aporagender [[flags|pride flag]], which is shown at right.<ref>http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/88699128869/aporagender-pride-buttons {{dead link}}</ref> "Blue & Pink have been put on either end of the flag to show that you feel your gender is 'away' from these two colours, stereotyped as blue being masculine and pink being feminine. Purple to represent as feeling between male and female. Yellow to represent how the gender is nothing like being female, male or both, but is also placed close enough to blue, purple and pink to show that it’s still connected strongly to some sort of specific gender. Yellow also represents how | Hyaenahart designed the aporagender [[flags|pride flag]], which is shown at right.<ref>http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/88699128869/aporagender-pride-buttons {{dead link}}</ref> "Blue & Pink have been put on either end of the flag to show that you feel your gender is 'away' from these two colours, stereotyped as blue being masculine and pink being feminine. Purple to represent as feeling between male and female. Yellow to represent how the gender is nothing like being female, male or both, but is also placed close enough to blue, purple and pink to show that it’s still connected strongly to some sort of specific gender. Yellow also represents how it's a non-binary identity."<ref>http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/88675303724/pride-flags-for-us-a-flag-proposal-for {{dead link}}</ref> | ||
In 2018 an alternate aporagender flag was proposed due to discontent with the original flag. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wedontcareaboutyourbinary.tumblr.com/post/175489605783/aporagender-flag-suggestion-its-recently-come-to|title=Aporagender Flag Suggestion|date=2018|archive-url=https://archive.ph/Jke87|archive-date=8 April 2021|access-date=2020-07-15}}</ref> Proposed by Mod Lune of the blog ''wedontcareaboutyourbinary'', this flag was not intended to be a replacement to the original but rather an alternative for people who were also discontent with the original or merely preferred the newer version. Lune felt the original flag focused too heavily on binary gender "between-ness" and was too close to the [[bigender]] flag. "Yellow and green are two colors that are equally strongly associated with non-binary identity that stands completely separate from a pink/blue female/male point of reference. Teal refers here to the validity of aporagender identities that may SEEM similar to maleness/masculinity or femaleness/femininity, but are distinctly their own separate gender feelings. I chose the black diagonal stripe in opposition to white, which frequently references lack, absence or void; here, I’m using black to signify the presence of a specific gender feeling. Its diagonal orientation refers to the existence of these genders on a plane completely distinct from the binary." | In 2018 an alternate aporagender flag was proposed due to discontent with the original flag. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wedontcareaboutyourbinary.tumblr.com/post/175489605783/aporagender-flag-suggestion-its-recently-come-to|title=Aporagender Flag Suggestion|date=2018|archive-url=https://archive.ph/Jke87|archive-date=8 April 2021|access-date=2020-07-15}}</ref> Proposed by Mod Lune of the blog ''wedontcareaboutyourbinary'', this flag was not intended to be a replacement to the original but rather an alternative for people who were also discontent with the original or merely preferred the newer version. Lune felt the original flag focused too heavily on binary gender "between-ness" and was too close to the [[bigender]] flag. "Yellow and green are two colors that are equally strongly associated with non-binary identity that stands completely separate from a pink/blue female/male point of reference. Teal refers here to the validity of aporagender identities that may SEEM similar to maleness/masculinity or femaleness/femininity, but are distinctly their own separate gender feelings. I chose the black diagonal stripe in opposition to white, which frequently references lack, absence or void; here, I’m using black to signify the presence of a specific gender feeling. Its diagonal orientation refers to the existence of these genders on a plane completely distinct from the binary." | ||
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In order to be aporagender, a person needs to have a feeling of having a gender, and that their "gender is completely and totally not male or female."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/88820008594/queerascat-so-i-just-stumbled-upon-a-new-gender |date=14 June 2014|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20160810205227/http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/88820008594/queerascat-so-i-just-stumbled-upon-a-new-gender |archive-date=10 August 2016 |title=so i just stumbled upon a new gender that has recently been coined by someone else called 'aporagender'}}</ref> Since some neutrois people use neutrois to mean that they have no inner sense of gender, aporagender is not a synonym of that, because aporagender people have a sense of gender.<ref>http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/88820244904/aporagender {{dead link}}</ref> In that case, in its most specific sense, aporagender is a synonym with neutrois, if neutrois is used in its definition that means "not female, not male, not between female or male." That said, neutrois has many definitions, so aporagender is only a synonym for one of these. | In order to be aporagender, a person needs to have a feeling of having a gender, and that their "gender is completely and totally not male or female."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/88820008594/queerascat-so-i-just-stumbled-upon-a-new-gender |date=14 June 2014|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20160810205227/http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/88820008594/queerascat-so-i-just-stumbled-upon-a-new-gender |archive-date=10 August 2016 |title=so i just stumbled upon a new gender that has recently been coined by someone else called 'aporagender'}}</ref> Since some neutrois people use neutrois to mean that they have no inner sense of gender, aporagender is not a synonym of that, because aporagender people have a sense of gender.<ref>http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/88820244904/aporagender {{dead link}}</ref> In that case, in its most specific sense, aporagender is a synonym with neutrois, if neutrois is used in its definition that means "not female, not male, not between female or male." That said, neutrois has many definitions, so aporagender is only a synonym for one of these. | ||
People who are aporagender may also feel that all genders are equally validating, so none of them and all of them fit well. However, they may still feel they identify under the | People who are aporagender may also feel that all genders are equally validating, so none of them and all of them fit well. However, they may still feel they identify under the nonbinary umbrella. | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||