Hello tumblr! This is @ipso-faculty and I’m creating a dedicated tumblr for the flags and coinings I’m creating. This is a side-tumblr of mine and hence I’ll follow back as @ipso-faculty.

I am also on Wikimedia Commons and the Fediverse.

I am intergender, demigender, intersex, disabled (POTS, long covid, AuDHD), bi/pan, ambiamorous, as well as a white settler. I mostly make intersex and disability oriented flags.

General notes
- All flags I make are public domain unless noted otherwise. This means you can share and remix as you desire. No credit is needed, no permission needs to be asked. Have fun!

Design philosophy
- My primary goal is to make flags that are comprehensible. I see flags as a form of communication and I like it when flags have patterns in their meanings and designs.

How to request a flag
- How it works: you send me a request, I send you some prototypes, you let me know what you like or what to change, and once you’re satisfied I’ll post it. I’ll only mention your username if I have your explicit permission to do so.
- In order for me to send you prototypes, I need to be able to DM you. For my own cognitive needs, I need to be able to see a *threaded conversation*. The problem with Tumblr’s ask system is if I answer your ask privately, I cannot see what I wrote. So if you reply back with “I liked flag #2” I actually don’t know which flag you liked!!!
- I am no longer accepting requests from users who will not let me DM them. The lack of threaded conversation via Asks is cognitively inaccessible to me.
- Please only ask for flags of identities that you have (or have a legit connection to the relevant community). I want to be able to consult with you on prototypes and know that the designs I’m making are appropriate for the relevant identity group.
- When asking for a flag it’s helpful if you let me know if there are existing designs, symbols, or the like you’d like me aware of or to get incorporated <3

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Flag resources
(I’ll be adding links to this that I find useful, so if reblogging check the original url for the latest version)

Colours
- OKLCH colour picker & converter
- why it’s worth learning oklch
- introduction to perceptual colour spaces like LCH
- introduciton to what a colour space / gamut is
- Wikipedia’s list of flags by colour combination

Flag layouts
- Wikipedia’s glossary of vexillology
- Wikipedia’s list of flags by aspect ratio

SVG drawing
- introduction to SVG
- Scaling SVG with CSS
- MDN documentation on SVG transform
- Bézier curve tutorial
- Python drawsvg documentation
- Python drawsvg library

Tumblr
- How to back up your tumblr

Resources/guides I’ve written
- Different ways to style infinity symbols (and why it matters)

The red umbrella is a symbol of sex workers & sex worker rights. It represents beauty & resistance to attacks on social workers. ❤️

Top: intersex (intersex purple on intersex yellow background)
Bottom: intergender (intersex yellow on intersex purple background)
Sensory friendlier versions on the right.

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Requested by: @scifimagpie

Licensing: the umbrella icon comes from Font Awesome by Dave Gandy, and has a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license. As a result, I am releasing the flags as CC BY-SA 4.0 (the newer, compatible version of the same license).

Square versions for avatars/etc under the cut.

Keep reading

Some more intersex headcanons that came to mind after my last headcanon post! These are all headcanons of mine.

Min Farshaw from Wheel of Time as interneutrois (neutrois in a specifically intersex way)

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Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill from Animorphs as interandrogyne (androgyne in a specifically intersex way)

Casey from Mr Dressup as intersexgender (and also pangender)

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Crowley from Good Omens as intersex and transmascfem.

LMK if you have any intersex headcanons you want flagified! I feel like intersex headcanons pretty much always get put on the intersex flag, and that flag makes me happy, but I also wanna show some love to intersex microlabels 💛💜💛

Edit to add: all of the pictures of characters are copyrighted. Feel free to use/share per fandom social norms, just know you can’t upload it to Wikimedia Commons or the like.

Deadpool from the MCU as varsex (since he has all the cancers). Photo credit. Inspired by this ask to @consciousexe.

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Paul Atreides from Dune as intersex and interexpressive-masculine (i.e. his masculine gender expression is connected to / reflective of being intersex). Photo credit. Submission by @goingrampant.

Brienne of Tarth from Games of Thrones as intersex and having interexpressive-neutral gender expression. Image source. Inspired by this post by @thehmn.

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Chummy Browne from Call the Midwife as intersex and interexpressive-androgynous (while also being a woman). Inspired by the same post by @thehmn. Image source.

Bobbie Draper from The Expanse as intersex and interexpressive-feminine. Her femininity (especially in the books) is always described in reference to her large stature and musculature, but it’s always understood as feminine. Very feminine in a specifically intersex way. Photo source. Inspired by this post by @intertrek.

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Camina Drummer from The Expanse as extersex, because what kind of beltalowda has access to medical testing? This one’s from me, I headcanon most of the Belters in the TV show as hypogonadally intersex to explain why they’re not as tall as they should be per the books 😂. And I think Drummer wouldn’t be bothered to figure out if she is intersex or not.

Ahsoka Tano from Star Wars as intersex AFAB transfeminine with the intertransgender flag. Source image. Inspired by this poll by @aretheyqueer.

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Fiona from Shrek as PCOS-intersex (i.e. intersex on the basis of having PCOS hyperandrogenism). Suggested by @scifimagpie. Image source.

Harth Fray from the Buffy comics as XTM intersex, having access to feminine powers that are shared with his twin sister. Suggested by @goingrampant. Image source.

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Joan Lambert from Alien is XTF intersex! Photo from here. I’ve seen a bunch of people list Lambert as an intersex headcanon but I personally think the reveal she was medically assigned from male to female at birth is pretty canonically intersex. 🤷

Tedd Verres from El Goonish Shive is intersex and interfluid! Picture source. Submission by @goingrampant.

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Azi Nareen from Scavenger’s Reign is intersex and inter-agender/intergenderless. Picture from from here. Another headcanon of mine.

Note on copyright: all of these flags include copyrighted images. They are not public domain. Feel free to use/share within the norms of using material derived from popular media on social media.

Following the trend of other intergender flags I and others have made by sticking intersex yellow on the borders :)

I switched the androgyne stripes to horizontal, because the vertical versions I tried didn’t look as good. I rotated them to the left rather than the right so that they’d be in the opposite order of the bi flag (to try and reduce confusion). Sensory friendlier version on the left.

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This flag is public domain! 🎉

Nobody requested this one, I just wanted to to make it for my own benefit.

Best as I can tell the original coining was by @intersexfairy in 2021.

Tagging for archival: @intersexflags @varsex-pride @liom-archive @radiomogai

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I got a request for a new interhormonal / hormonally intersex flag that is more sensory-friendly than the original design by sproutflags.

Hormonally intersex (or interhormonal) is a term for intersex people whose intersex variation is characterized by what society perceives as a hormone “imbalance” - e.g. hyperandrogenism, hyperestrogenism, hypogonadism.

Sensory-friendly on the left.
Version with original intersex flag colours on the right.

Hex codes I used in the sensory friendly version are:
yellow: #f4db75
purple: #5f2a7e

The icon in the middle of the flag is a representation of the central common structure in sex hormones such as testosterone, estradiol, estrone, estriol, progesterone, etc.

These flags are released as public domain (CC0). 💜

Tagging for archival: @intersexflags @liom-archive @radiomogai @varsex-pride 💜

As is, we have terms like:

• Intergender: when your gender is connected, linked, or influenced by being intersex
• Neurogender: when your gender is connected, linked, or influenced by being neurodivergent
• Somatogender: when your gender is connected, linked or influenced by having a somatic disability
• Indigender: when your gender is connected, linked, or influenced to being part of an Indigenous culture

These aren’t gender modalities. While sometimes they get used as gender identities, they often aren’t: they’re descriptors of the influence(s) on one’s gender identity.

I’d like to propose that we call them gender sodalities. 🎉

The word “sodality” is used in theology and anthropology as a contrast to “modality”. It comes from Latin sodalis (“companion”) and is used to refer to non-kin groups organized a shared purpose or affiliation. I like it here because these gender terms indicate that one’s gender is in conjunction with being part of a community.

Right now these gender terms tend to get grouped under exclusive genders, and they are exclusive, but I want a way to talk about the the influence descriptors that doesn’t apply to the exclusive gender identities and/or exclusive gender modalities.

I considered calling them “gender influences” but that word pair gets used a lot to refer to things like how one’s gender influences what occupation you pursue and stuff. Also: “gender identity”, “gender modality”, and “gender quality” all end in -ity and so I wanted to keep the trend going. @GoingRampant helped brainstorm ideas for terms with me and helped pick “sodality” out of the options.

Gender sodalities can be combined: for example, one who feels like their gender is a function of being both intersex and autistic could then say their gender sodality is interautigender.

I’m also going to coin two non-exclusive gender sodality terms:

1. Coenogender for when one has a sense of gender that feels connected, linked, or influenced by being part of the common hegemonic zeitgeist of Global North / Western society. Coeno- is used in scientific terminology to denote something is common or general. Does *not* mean the individual approves of Global North binarism! One can be influenced by something and also feel like it is a negative/restrictive influence! (Coeno- is usually pronounced /si:no/ in English, like see-no. It comes from Greek, and in Greek it’s pronounced closer to kee-no. I personally consider both correct.)

2. Eigengender for when one has a sense of gender that feels inherent to one’s self and unrelated to their intersex status, disability status, culture, etc. So one is not intergender, not neurogender, not somatogender, not indigender, nor coenogender. Eigen- in reference to the prefix used math: an eigenvector is one which is unchanged under transformation. It comes from German, meaning “one’s own”, characteristic of a given individual. Pronounced /ˈaɪ̯ɡən/ (like eye-gun - sound recording here)

Note: I am intergender, and do not identify as eigengender, though I do feel at least partly coenogender. Eigengender is coined in response to an anonymous ask for a term more general than extergender (not-intergender). Coenogender is coined as an option for those who feel none of the above and/or the “default” sodality.

Note for Americans: the spelling of coeno- with the o is intentional. This is because a different scientific prefix, caeno- (new/recent) gets Americanized as ceno- (e.g. Cenozoic). The two prefixes have different etymologies. It’s standard to spell coeno- with the o to avoid confusion, including in the US.

Tagging for archival: @liom-archive @radiomogai @themogaidragon