Purple.
Someone wrote…
Some of us have a gender that is purple in a world that only has words for blue and red, so we are making new words, and from them, a new world.
What’s your experience?
Posted by julian on November 30th, 2010 at 08:00 am
Category: your voice 14 comments »
November 30th, 2010 at 9:04 am |
And a better, brighter, more colorful world it shall be.
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November 30th, 2010 at 9:25 am |
Wow, I was just thinking this the other day! And the fact that some of us are closer to red or blue doesn’t make us red or blue, it makes us magenta or violet.
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November 30th, 2010 at 11:53 am |
Exactly. I especially agree with Libby.
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November 30th, 2010 at 12:15 pm |
What about those of us whose gender is orange in a world of red and blue? Finding words for gender that don’t assume a binary is soooooo hard.
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radical/rebel replied:
November 30th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
this question rocks.
we gotta make new words, and words that aren’t even just “one-half of the inane binary plus the other half equals me.”
some days I think the trick might be surprise, coming up with words for your gender that blow everyone away and don’t make sense… also appropriating adjectives so your gender is “fabulous” or “wonderful” can be nice…
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jayda replied:
November 30th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
I was about to say, my gender could be Yellow, or white.
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November 30th, 2010 at 1:45 pm |
I’m sure somebody’s colorblind.
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December 1st, 2010 at 3:28 am |
This is so true.
On the other hand, the problem with inadequate words might not be so great if people only recognised that the words are inadequate. Increased awareness to the rescue?
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December 1st, 2010 at 2:26 pm |
I actually describe my gender in colors a lot, haha.
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December 1st, 2010 at 9:11 pm |
I just found this on deviant art. Very relevant to the discussion. :-)
http://rdeis.deviantart.com/#/d313qv5
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December 2nd, 2010 at 4:36 pm |
As we speak new realities they will be followed by thinking and then, hopefully, actions. As an artist I often think and dream in colors. Love this quote.
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December 3rd, 2010 at 3:55 am |
I love your comment! It’s what needs to be done: creating a world that is different by changing the terms in which people think and only are able to think to a world where there are more than two (or even three, four..) possibilities! And language is one of the keys to that! Your language is also poetic!
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December 5th, 2010 at 4:00 pm |
as a lovely light blue green, i protest. while calling the entire spectrum of visible light “red and blue” is limiting, saying “we must expand to include colors between red and blue” is only a tiny step in the right direction. not only do you have all other colors and variations, you have light, you have shape, you have space. think about it.
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January 16th, 2011 at 12:32 pm |
I love this. Though I may be largely red, I still have bits of me that traditionally, are blue. I hate the binary system. We all are people. Beautiful people.
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