MutinyCrinshaw :anarchy_heart: on Nostr: #EngenderedWriting 01 — How do you define gender? Does this differ from the ...
#EngenderedWriting 01 — How do you define gender? Does this differ from the dictionary definition? Do your characters reflect society's role model, or your synthesis?
To me, gender is the way we relate our body to our society.
The word's etymology comes from French & latin & means "to sort," & it is also related to the word "genre." The expectations of society (as expressed in language) is that our gender shows our genre, the "kind of entity" we are. That's how I relate to it, language-wise.
In my Copper Sun stories (whose gender is sword-and-sorcery) people's embodied identity can be hotly contested. It varies by location, for one thing. It also has to be held in conversation with modern-day readers while trying to acknowledge that gender has *always* been contested & complicated.
Many of my MCs (besides the series MC) are, at this stage, cis folks. They are stand-ins for the reader to engage with other ideas about genre. The series MC is nonbinary & gender-fluid, however. I try to include a broad, sometimes historical, sometimes creative & unhinged, range of other genders, too. Eventually I want to explore some of these from a closer perspective.
But hey. I'm transcribing story no. 50 now. I've got at least another 50 in me in which to explore more gender nonsense
To me, gender is the way we relate our body to our society.
The word's etymology comes from French & latin & means "to sort," & it is also related to the word "genre." The expectations of society (as expressed in language) is that our gender shows our genre, the "kind of entity" we are. That's how I relate to it, language-wise.
In my Copper Sun stories (whose gender is sword-and-sorcery) people's embodied identity can be hotly contested. It varies by location, for one thing. It also has to be held in conversation with modern-day readers while trying to acknowledge that gender has *always* been contested & complicated.
Many of my MCs (besides the series MC) are, at this stage, cis folks. They are stand-ins for the reader to engage with other ideas about genre. The series MC is nonbinary & gender-fluid, however. I try to include a broad, sometimes historical, sometimes creative & unhinged, range of other genders, too. Eventually I want to explore some of these from a closer perspective.
But hey. I'm transcribing story no. 50 now. I've got at least another 50 in me in which to explore more gender nonsense