Someone wrote…

Genderqueer to me today means feeling sensual and gentle enough to shave and wear a cute skirt, yet strong enough to take on the world and tell off anyone who has a problem with it as I go proudly about my day.

Loving the freedom of the middle ground; it’s not either-or, it’s both-neither, and damn it feels beautiful.

And what are you thinking about gender right now?

Reposted from Subtle Cluster. Originally posted at Colorful Queerdom.

Reblogged from Subtle Cluster. Originally posted at YesHairy.

Someone wrote…

Years ago it would bother me when I read as male while trying to present as female. Now I get frustrated when I pass as cisfemale while trying to present femme drag. Why does it sometimes feel so important to be read “correctly”?

And what are you thinking about gender right now?

Hi Genderforkers!

So the middle of winter (the Solstice JUST passed) is a time when we’re pretty highly encouraged to be giving – and it’s also often a time for taking a step back and giving yourself a good once-over, and maybe figuring out what sort of changes you need to make to keep moving forward. It’s a time of transition.
Genderfork is going through a pretty big transition right now.

We’ve put out a few calls for volunteers over the past few months, and we’ve gotten some awesome new folks in, to be sure. But many of our volunteers have been here since day one, and over the past three years or so, their own lives have changed, and many of them need to move on. We know they will do amazing things out in the world.

However, it’s a struggle every week right now to populate the site with full and varied content. If we’re to keep moving forward with the site in its current form, we need new blood, and fast! If you love the site, and you have time to give us, please, get in touch!

Here’s what you need to have:

• A love of gender all across the spectrum, and a love of our site!
• Access to a computer and the Internet, and basic knowledge of how to use these things.
• Time to give! Really, honestly – it doesn’t have to be a LOT of time, an hour or so a week will do it, but you need to be able to give it regularly, every week. We LOVE that you want to help, but if your life is in transition, or just really busy, take care of yourself. Don’t offer what you can’t give.

Here’s what you DO NOT need to have:

• Any particular identity. You don’t need to be genderqueer or trans or anything other than what you are to help out here. You just need to want to help.
• A lot of technical knowledge. We welcome it, but we can absolutely train you to do any job that needs doing around here – they’re not hard, and we’re excellent at writing instructions and answering questions.
• A LOT of time to give. It doesn’t take hours and hours to be of use around here – it’s the consistency we’re after when it comes to time, not the volume. And we DO understand that things come up and some weeks you just can’t fit everything in – if you can drop us a line warning us and come back next soon, we can always work it out.

If you’ve got the time and the desire, please do contact us at: volunteering – at – genderfork – dot – com and tell us a little bit about yourself. Specifically:

• What sort of stuff you wanna help out with!
• Why you wanna help!
• Any extra experience you think might be handy (tech abilities, forum moderation, blogging skills, etc)
• Where you live on the Internet (blogs, tumblrs, your band’s old myspace, whatever …)
• How much time you can to give to us (on an ongoing weekly or monthly basis)
• ANYTHING ELSE you want to share about yourself (we don’t know what that is yet, but we can’t wait to find out!)

Just a heads-up: please don’t expect an immediate response from us. There may be a bunch of you, or I might be swamped with my day job, or there could be other stuff going on that slows this process down. We’ll get through ‘em all, but responses may take some time.

I am really looking forward to meeting you, though.

Thanks in advance!
Your Friendly Neighborhood Volunteer-Scout, Emma

Someone wrote…

I have long hair. I go by a girly name. I have girly mannerisms. Yet all it takes is a glance at my beard shadow for someone to gender me male.

What’s your experience?

And what are you thinking about gender right now?

Someone wrote…

Pronouns make more of a difference than I ever thought they would…I guess you don’t realize how much you need things until you get them.

What’s your experience?

And what are you thinking about gender right now?

Someone wrote…

Everybody else I know, whether cis or trans, seems to know very strongly which gender they would like to be perceived as. I have no idea whether I’m happy being cis or whether my life would be better if I were to transition or express my gender confusion.

What’s your experience?

And what are you thinking about gender right now?

Someone wrote…

They told me I was born between sexes and my gender slipped into that gap. People seem to want me to find that again, but it’s gone now.

What’s your experience?

And what are you thinking about gender right now?

Someone wrote…

I don’t like “living as male” and “living as female,” I’m living as me. People just seem to see that differently than they used to.

What’s your experience?

And what are you thinking about gender right now?

Model Shaun Ross, Photographer unknown. Found at genderplayful.tumblr.com, originally from Afrique.

Hello, fantabulous genderlovelies!

Emma-the-volunteer-coordinator here again, putting out the call to any of you who want to share your time and skills with us.

This time, however, we’re looking for a specific skill set: We need people to help keep our site populated with fantastic, diverse, glorious, happy, gender-wild pictures of humans. That’s what we need.

So: If you’ve got an eye for faces, a feel for the site, a drive to contribute; if you spend hours on flickr or the Internet at large looking for more of that goodstuff you find around here; if you’re a whiz at resizing and titling, alt-texting and crediting; OR, of course, if you just know that you could be, that you want to be, if we only gave you the chance… Get in touch!

Here’s what you do:

Write an email to volunteering [at] genderfork.com. Include:

• Who you are! Just a bit. A name to call you by, a sort of idea of where you’re coming from, a pronoun that you like to hear applied to yourself. That sorta stuff.
• Why you want to help us keep our site full of lovely photographs!
• What sort of experience you have with pictures and the Internet (do you tumbl? do you flick? do you lose hours in idle perusal of face after face?)

And that’s that! Send it along and I’ll be gratefully, joyously in touch!

Thanks already!

xo-emms

Greetings wonderful Gfork Community!

Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Emma, and I recently signed on as the Volunteer Coordinator for this amazing site (don’t panic everybody, the Dopp hasn’t gone anywhere. I’m additional!).  This means I get to hang out, read the posts, talk with our current set of Amazing Volunteers and try and help keep everything running just as smooth as can be.

We’ve been taking stock and discovering that things behind the scenes are shifting around a little bit – as they are wont to do – and we’ve realized that we need a little more help. We would love to bring in a few more folks to volunteer with us; mostly we need help gathering photos and quotes, but there is probably more that could be done (anybody have any spectacular ideas?).

SO! If you’ve been visiting Genderfork for a while, and you’d love to get your hands dirty and help out with the content, now’s the time to speak up! Here’s what you do:

Contact us at: volunteering – at – genderfork – dot – com and tell us a little bit about yourself. Specifically:

• What you wanna help out with!
• Why you wanna help!
• What experience with tech stuff and/or blogging you’ve already got.
• Where you live on the Internet (blogs, tumblrs, your band’s old myspace, whatever …)
• Do you have any experience with moderating, mediating, or organizing?
• How much time you can to give to us (on an ongoing weekly or monthly basis)
• And, you know, that other REALLY IMPORTANT thing that you need to share with us about yourself (we don’t know what that is yet, but we can’t wait to find out!)

Just a heads-up: please don’t expect an immediate response from us. There may be a bunch of you, or I might be swamped with my day job, or there could be other stuff going on that slows this process down. We’ll get through ’em all, but responses may take some time.

I am really looking forward to meeting you, though.

Thanks in advance!

Your Friend Neighborhood Volunteer-Scout (aka Emma)