Andamiro Note Design Contest Silver Medal Winner

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CHOOSE YOUR RESPONSE

[transphobia] fucking delusional tranny, this has gone way too fucking far. We need to ban all of this fucking chemical mutilation. Ban this gender healthcare crap.

[reasonable centrist] but gender and sex are different? You can't change your sex? *Throws hands up* I just don't get it anymore!!!! We just need to ban this gender medication stuff until we figure this all out.

[average person] okay but I wouldn't fuck a tran. In fact they're lying by existing. We just need to ban those hormone things so they stop lying about themselves.

["ally"] we need SO much acceptance in our society, so that these poor, misguided souls don't turn to HRT. I know that HRT is the absolute LAST resort before killing yourself, so it breaks my heart to say this, but you need to accept reality, sweety: you'll always be a biological male. If this is making you think this way, maybe we just need extra precautions on giving these nasty hormones out, like banning it until we can sort this whole thing out.

["trans affirming"] okay but this is kind of bio essentialist, are you saying that people only become their gender when they take HRT? You're just trying to affirm yourself using bioessentialist constructs, we all know that the REALITY is that gender and sex are different and you can NEVER change your sex! You'll always be an AMAB and nothing you can do can change that. In fact, it's kind of problematic to be suggesting experimental and dangerous medication to people. We really just need to ban HRT because it's stealing all of our men AMAB women with diverse expressions!

[actually understands my fucking point] yeah, you don't need HRT or medical intervention to be trans, but it's worrying how much the queer community has internalized essentialist rhetoric It's really a shame that medical literature leaves trans people behind in so many ways. Sex and gender are two separate things, each made of thousands of components that are often malleable. Essentialism has taken its root deeply in the queer community and it's a damn shame. It also poisons so much of the rhetoric, because maintaining a sense of "biological sex" that is binary and not malleable allows people to disguise anti-trans laws using AGAB language and/or "biological male". It's also worrying that people excuse this as a petty issue or a source of "validation", because this is the actual language being used by lawmakers across the world to justify transphobic laws, destroying both intersex and trans people's futures. This applies beyond HRT, acknowledging that people not on HRT may choose to change individual components of their sex or may have attributes generally associated with one sex or the other. It's a complex problem, but the first step is acknowledging that "biological sex" is way more complicated and dynamic than anyone wants to admit

The other day, I was looking through job listings, tired and generally annoyed at life. I printed out some of them, and one of them was dishonestly trying to disguise itself as a normal job, by only mentioning in the fine print that it’s a temporary contractor for disabled people (就労支援A型事業所) instead of stating it up-front.

Don’t believe me? Point me to one LGBT community, organization, or other group that is ideologically neutral or leftist, and has an explicit stance against using the Q-slur as an umbrella term or to describe others without their consent.

do you, perhaps, mean the people in the queer community?

Are you intentionally trying to ignore the fact that you, via your Emotional Support Slur, are perpetuating the cisheteronormative idea that LGBT people are fundamentally and inexorably alien, instead of breaking down that prejudice?

Here’s mine:

So stop mansplaining transmisogyny to a trans woman, you white manchild. You can claim you’re “agender” and a “f**d***” and a “q***r”, but apparently that’s just because you just want to say slurs to minorities.

but this is literally one guy's tumblr posts. on his personal blog. exactly what "resources" is he creating barriers to? why do you assume he's talking about you, when he says "queer" and you don't identify as queer? if i'm making posts about being a dyke and a cripple, and the dyke and cripple communities, lesbians and disabled people who don't identify as dykes or cripples can simply not interact with the fucking post. it's not that hard.

You can’t. And your language reflects that lack. You think of sexual minorities as “abnormal”, “alien”, “unfit for society”, and the other meanings that the Q-slur carries, and you feel the need to defend said bigotry when sexual minorities are rightfully upset about being singled out and verbally beaten by that slur.

girl calls OP a [q***r]

OP calls themself q***r in their fucking bio

but doesn’t have the gumption to not censor [the Q-slur]

Not sure which definition of gumption you intended. But it’s common sense to censor slurs in public forums like Tumblr.

Then accuses OP of calling random people [q***r] (he isn’t)

He did, and I attached receipts. Here they are again.

the chronically online shitfest of “ohhh dont call the lgbt community the [q***r] community”

If anything, insisting that every sexual minority must be “q***r”, or else they’re filthy class traitors unworthy of being in the Cool Kids’ Genderfucking Club, is the “chronically online shitfest” here. We have the right to self-determination: to not be referred to as a slur.

as if we haven’t been referring to ourselves as such internally and even externally for decades.

Who is “we”? Sure as hell doesn’t include all LGBT people. Methinks you have internalized the fascist Übermensch–Untermensch mentality in which “q***rness” makes one the Master Race, and failure to be born so is justification enough for ostracization and punishment.

It reeks of a couple people who just dont interact with our community outside the Internet.

Whose is “our”? Sure as hell not of all LGBT people. You Q-slur users have colonized and eradicated all LGBT communities. Wanna prove me wrong? Name an LGBT community that has a sizeable membership, a neutral or leftist political stance, and a strong stand against using the Q-slur as an umbrella term without consent. You can’t name a single one, and that proves my point.

You q***rs are chronically self-centered and do not fight for the rights of sexual minorities.

Here’s mine:

So stop mansplaining transmisogyny to a trans woman, you white manchild. You can claim you’re “agender” and a “f**d***” and a “q***r”, but apparently that’s just because you just want to say slurs to minorities.

but this is literally one guy's tumblr posts. on his personal blog. exactly what "resources" is he creating barriers to? why do you assume he's talking about you, when he says "queer" and you don't identify as queer? if i'm making posts about being a dyke and a cripple, and the dyke and cripple communities, lesbians and disabled people who don't identify as dykes or cripples can simply not interact with the fucking post. it's not that hard.

You can’t. And your language reflects that lack. You think of sexual minorities as “abnormal”, “alien”, “unfit for society”, and the other meanings that the Q-slur carries, and you feel the need to defend said bigotry when sexual minorities are rightfully upset about being singled out and verbally beaten by that slur.

girl calls OP a [q***r]

OP calls themself q***r in their fucking bio

but doesn’t have the gumption to not censor [the Q-slur]

Not sure which definition of gumption you intended. But it’s common sense to censor slurs in public forums like Tumblr.

Then accuses OP of calling random people [q***r] (he isn’t)

He did, and I attached receipts. Here they are again.

the chronically online shitfest of “ohhh dont call the lgbt community the [q***r] community”

If anything, insisting that every sexual minority must be “q***r”, or else they’re filthy class traitors unworthy of being in the Cool Kids’ Genderfucking Club, is the “chronically online shitfest” here. We have the right to self-determination: to not be referred to as a slur.

as if we haven’t been referring to ourselves as such internally and even externally for decades.

Who is “we”? Sure as hell doesn’t include all LGBT people. Methinks you have internalized the fascist Übermensch–Untermensch mentality in which “q***rness” makes one the Master Race, and failure to be born so is justification enough for ostracization and punishment.

It reeks of a couple people who just dont interact with our community outside the Internet.

Whose is “our”? Sure as hell not of all LGBT people. You Q-slur users have colonized and eradicated all LGBT communities. Wanna prove me wrong? Name an LGBT community that has a sizeable membership, a neutral or leftist political stance, and a strong stand against using the Q-slur as an umbrella term without consent. You can’t name a single one, and that proves my point.

You q***rs are chronically self-centered and do not fight for the rights of sexual minorities.

Don’t believe me? Point me to one LGBT community, organization, or other group that is ideologically neutral or leftist, and has an explicit stance against using the Q-slur as an umbrella term or to describe others without their consent.

do you, perhaps, mean the people in the queer community?

Are you intentionally trying to ignore the fact that you, via your Emotional Support Slur, are perpetuating the cisheteronormative idea that LGBT people are fundamentally and inexorably alien, instead of breaking down that prejudice?

[ 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!

[ Link to survey ]

PS: You can see some regularly-updated statistics about incoming data here, with lots of demography and graphs to peruse!

Who can participate?

This survey intends to collect information from everyone who ISN'T adequately described by the "gender binary".

According to the binary model of gender, everyone fits tidily into just one of these categories:

• Woman/girl - all the time, solely, and completely ↳ (may be cisgender, transgender, intersex, etc. for the purposes of this survey)

• Man/boy - all the time, solely, and completely ↳ (may be cisgender, transgender, intersex, etc. for the purposes of this survey)

Don’t lie; if a binary transsexual actually made his or her own survey that excludes nonbinary respondents, you’d cry “oppression” and “exorsexism”.

DON’T GET ME STARTED ON HOW MUCH I HATE INSTAGRAM ““““POETRY”””” (2026)

this travesty is

not

a poem it is a stream

of consciousness

with a monkey or a housecat

pressing

the return key haphazardly

while the writer

wanders off in a vaguely

Philosophical

musing

not deep enough to genuinely communicate a

message but just pretentious enough

to get likes on Instagram

it is an insult to poetry itself

you think you’re e.e. cummings but you’re

I am not one of those people who say that a random pothole is “art”, for the same reason that I don’t say that a random person’s vent post is “art”.

René Magritte writing “this is not a pipe” on a drawing of a pipe was art, because it communicated an idea: that the appearance of a pipe is only part of the concept of a pipe. A memer today captioning a photo of a cat as “this is not a cat” is a parody of The Treachery of Images, but does not constitute itself art.

Kazimir Malevich drawing an off-kilter, off-white square on a canvas painted different off-white was art, because it pushed the boundaries of suprematism by testing how little a painter could paint to invoke an intended feeling. A content mill today producing stock wallpapers combining “minimalist” vector shapes makes visual assets, but it does not make art.

Jackson Pollock dripping paint on canvas was art, because he wanted to express the natural beauty of the stochastic patterns that multicolored paint makes when dripping from a swaying pendulum. A blotch of paint spilled on a driveway is not art, because it lacks the intent of a Pollock painting.

Maurizio Catellan making a fully-functioning toilet out of solid 18k gold and naming it America is a piece of satirical art, because it sends a message about the state and attitude of the United States in a way that took a lot of effort—and is at first vulgar, yet then poignant. Me hypothetically shitting on your desk is purely an action of defiance and disrespect, not art.

Art must have form and function. I think that Instagram Poetry is low-effort and is a mockery of the idea that “brevity is the soul of wit”. I believe that it’s a bastardization: all the form of an e. e. cummings poem, and none of the function.

You THINK I have “no reading comprehension” yet you dump an entire Bible chapter’s worth of text without paragraph breaks. Are you trying to communicate something or just to spew word salad?

You can claim that the haphazard line breaks and total lack of capitalization is “trying to communicate specific ideas of relentless movement through a mundane and indifferent existence” and that the bruise is a plague upon the author’s soul and that the pigeon is the inexorable march of time and whatever the hell else.

The curtains were blue.

You’re snorkeling in a kiddie pool. There is nothing poetic or evocative about Instagram “Poetry”, and its form—a photograph of a book unfortunate enough to be printed with that travesty—betrays that its primary function is to let Instagram users pretend that they read poetry on a physical book for fun.

That word salad was presented as “free form poetry”—technically, in the most pointless way. You’re arguing that any prose is “free form poetry” if you apply enough aesthetic modifications to it. That the Hewlett-Packard logo or Coca-Cola logo is a work of “free form poetry”. That a Homestuck superfan replacing all his B’s with 8’s is writing “free form poetry”.

Notice how my text message recreation (on a separate post here) puts the line breaks back into their natural sentence boundaries? That means that I did not, in fact as you claim, “pick up on it feeling like a series of back to back text messages”. I read it as a badly formatted jumble of words that occasionally resemble a coherent thought, which is betrayed as pseudo-profound nonsense.

It’s like if Deepak Chopra texted his agent while his keyboard was malfunctioning. It’s like a video essay that starts from talking about the “six seven” meme, and then finishes by claiming that downtuning the A note to 432Hz cleanses your chakras and manifests your quantum destiny or whatever. It’s like a paper cup, on which the Starbucks barista misspelled the name “Genevieve” as “Jen Beaver”, taped to the wall of a museum.

There are good ways to make a text “garish and jarring to read”, and presenting it with a format that is supposed to look square, aesthetically pleasing, and Instagrammable is not one of them. The problem with Instagram “Poetry” is that its sole purpose is to look like poetry. Nothing clever is going on with word choice, alliteration or rhymes, meters, metaphors, you name it. No, Instagram “Poetry” just uses haphazardly inserted line breaks. Sometimes an extra wide first-line indentation if you’re lucky.

An artless philistine thinks that poetry is just pretentiously-formatted prose; that’s what Instagram “Poetry” is, and that’s why Instagram “Poetry” is artless, including my own Instagram “Poems” satirizing Instagram “Poems” via the medium of an Instagram “Poem”.