nostalgic for the good times

[ survey.gendercensus.com ]

The 13th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th August 2026.

It’s short and easy, for most participants it takes 5 minutes or less.

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!

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.

Thank you so much!

The absolutely pervasive mentality that unwanted criticism or critique shouldn't be given and should be ignored is why fans of color don't stay in fan spaces.

And I am not going to mince words here:

A lot of you are racist. A lot of your fan works are racist.

That might have been difficult to hear. And if it was, you should probably reflect on why that was.

"Fandom etiquette" has created a space where fans of color either bite our tongues and eventually leave or say something, get dogged on, and then eventually leave.

And now, when I find myself making the mistake of going on Instagram, I get to see trans men themselves talking about how historically, trans men didn't do anything for the community, and so we need to step up now. Which, first of all, that isn't true, but second of all, if trans men's contributions are lesser, that makes a lot of sense if we listen to that trans woman talking about the trans men she was in community with back in the day. It's very hard to advance the trans cause if you're not alive.

Over 500 years spent trying to cut down a whole trunk of human culture.

This was disturbingly realistic about the usamerican healthcare system, something everyone in usamerica will eventually have to deal with. Yet nobody seemed bothered. Instead, everyone was arguing over who was the most morally pure blorbo and who’s the bad guy.

Why is nobody talking about the rise in anti-Asian hate and the assaults that have come with it?

When are we going to have a real conversation about Indigenous communities, the IHS, and how the healthcare system has failed them?

Why aren’t we talking more about the collective trauma of COVID and the reality that Long COVID is still affecting millions of people?

Why isn’t there more discussion about Street Teams and the critical work they do? And why has the ED become the last safety net for so many people, only for them to still slip through the cracks?

Why does nobody talk about the lack of formal mental health support for healthcare workers?

Why is there so little discussion about the financial strain on interns, or the low pay that many nurses and junior doctors receive for the work they do?

The show practically spells out that the ED is chronically under resourced, especially when it comes to staffing. Yet somehow, parts of the fandom reduce all of those systemic failures to, “It’s all because of that one evil man.”

For crying out loud.

And the peak response I got: “Who cares how healthcare system really works.”

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