The 2024 Gender Census is now open!

[ Link to survey ]

The 11th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th June 2024.

It’s short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 40,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

For the curious, you can also spy on some graphs and demographic data for the incoming responses here.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

Image credit: Malachite and rhodochrosite.

some of my favourite sign fails <3

College friendship is sending one of your friends who's graduating soon a giant list of monster theory and gothic horror academic reading recs so they can download as many PDFs as possible before they lose their university database access

Got a request for some of the recs here, so here's a short-ish list of some of the reading recs -- I've made an effort to link open source and/or at least slightly more accessible databases like JSTOR wherever possible, but some of these are, admittedly behind various paywalls that I wish everyone luck with circumventing in whatever manner you deem fit

This isn't even everything I've dug into on the subject, but I hope it's enough to get folks started on some reading!

Sorry it’s early but you really can’t use fanfiction terms in a non fanfiction context like if someone is trying to sell me a book to read and they tell me there’s an enemy to lovers I would be annoyed because why are you spoiling the story lol

sorry op this is kind of a tangent but this is why i hate how booktok has not only affected how ppl talk about their fave stories, but how it's basically gnawed its way into how publishing companies promote books. it basically encourages authors to build their entire story entirely around marketable tropes so that they turn more of a profit

"it has enemies to lovers!" "it has friends to lovers!" "this is a slow burn!" WHAT IS THE PLOT??? what makes your story unique?? why should i read it??? describing your story entirely in tropes and fanfiction terms makes your story sound extremely uninteresting lmfao.

Fanfiction is for when you want to read familiar characters in a setting where you already know what's going to happen. I care about this coffee shop au because I already love these characters and just want to see them in fun familiar situations

Books are original content for new stories new characters in new situations. Why should I care if it takes place in a coffee shop? Give me a reason to love these characters!

Godzilla takes a nap in the Colosseum GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE (2024)

Not Safe For Work

Remember, NSFW is not an abbreviation for nude that somehow has more syllables. It's shorthand for "If my boss happened to look over my shoulder when this was on my screen, would there be consequences?"

This is subjective, and depends on the boss and the job, of course. But many, many images that contain zero nudity are still very much NSFW (and sometimes, images with nudity aren't!) Consider this.

just goes to show how young the population of the internet is nowadays. nearly everyone that was into the internet for real in the early 2000s knew this kinda stuff

I need people to know that sometimes people tag your stuff as 'NSFW' not because they think a trans body is inherently sexual or something, but because even tasteful nude is still "My boss is going to ask questions if I don't close my browser fast enough"

Vouching for this fundraiser

Highlighting this fundraiser again - people might be cautious due to the sparse description and the title, but @90-ghost personally vouches for this family. Please donate and share!

Progress: €3,947 / 30,000

progress : 5,000/30,000 keep sharing

together, we are a prayer by Various

For design info / materials / binding process, read below the cut.

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wake up, fushiguro

watching the israelis stomp on and destroy the aid for gazans makes me physically ill. how morally depraved must you be to inflict suffering on people simply for being born the way they are? how can you let what happened to your ancestors happen again to those who accepted you into their land? all you zionists make me sick. you're all utterly depraved of any humanity.

Second gamergate, chronically online fandom discourse, racism and homophobia and transphobia at an all time high, media literacy discourse, the collapse of the triple A video game industry, AND another “alt/goth fashion and music is demonic” scare?!

Welcome back to 2015 fellows, we are in the absolute shitter now.

Whoa. I don't think I know anything about "second gamergate" and the "alt/goth fashion is demonic" scares!

What happened? I'm quite curious!

This is a long explanation so;

A Jessie/Misty zine is being made to help raise money for Rachael Lillis! I'll absolutely be doing a piece for this~ Join if you can!

Funny how a little beef between drake and kendrick and suddenly it’s all anyone is talking about and so everyone has just forgotten that young thug is currently in possession of an ancient staff of unknown power

more fucking petitions because this clown car country cannot stop with the bigotry for 30 seconds

uk people it takes 5 seconds and you checking your email to verify

everyone else: rebloge please

As of Sunday 12th May, this petition is at 1,897 signatures.

“At 10,000 signatures...

At 10,000 signatures, government will respond to this petition

At 100,000 signatures...

At 100,000 signatures, this petition will be considered for debate in Parliament”