Gender Shrine

If you're reading this, the page isn't done. I'm grabbing my fave xenogender flags and setting them here

Maegender

"Maegender, formerly known as Maedic, is a gender in the Dionysian Gender System named after the Maenads, the female members of the Cult of Dionysos also known as the Bacchae. Refers to a feminine, female, neutral, or female-associated gender of experience. Specifically, women, all genders of lesbians and sapphics, AFAB non-women who feel their relation to femininity impacts their gender/experience, feminine non-binary people, and anyone of any gender with a tie to femininity. This gender is also associated with power, freedom, chaos, and appreciation of women (romantically, aesthetically, sexually, conceptually, etc.)."

This one is important to me because I take part in trance drum and dance and I am a Hellenic Polytheist. Dionysos is such a rad god and I wish I could have been a maenad in ancient Greece. I feel like I continue this today by participating in my oral tradition, learning frame drum, and working towards being a lead trance musician.

Phrygigender

"Phrygigender is a modegender and musicgender that feels tense and creepy, or relates to the Phrygian mode. One may feel that their gender can only be described using the Phrygian mode. Alternatively, one's gender might change and/or fluctuate while listening to music that uses the Phrygian scale, or while playing an instrument in the Phrygian scale."

The phrygian scale, the third mode of the major scale and a minor scale with a flat second scale degree, is my favorite mode. I Love how dark and exotic it sounds. When I'm playing bass, I often end up composing with this mode even if I don't mean to.

Cowgender

"Cowgender is a cow-related gender or kingender that encompasses expressing oneself femininely and/or sapphic specifically and connected to cows in some way. It is a faunagender and may also be a kingender. It may be seen as the feminine counterpart to bullgender."

I guess this is something I don't talk about a lot, especially offline. But I don't really feel human. I've sorta been experimenting with therian and kin stuff and I feel like I'm in some way significantly cow. Its not something I've spent a lot of time on and I feel squirmy just thinking about it.

Tieflingender

"Tieflingender is a xenogender for those who feel a strong connection or association to the tiefling race from the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. This gender may feel rooted in infernal, hellish, or demonic feelings and be accompanied by feelings of rejection and suspicion from others, but loyalty to friends and allies once a relationship is formed. This gender could also be rooted in aspirations to embody a virtue or concept, or to overcome prejudice. "

I feel a deep emotional connection to tieflings. I think if I could click a button to be nonhuman (I'd do it in a heartbeat), tiefling would be one of my top choices for what to turn into. I guess I know what it feels to be hated by a lot of people for who you are and what it means to survive anyways.