#virpunk

Today’s Gender of the Day is: Virpunk!

Virpunk is a colloquial term, within the scope of male-related and male-aligned experiences, for a culture of resistance against gendernormativity; a male-related or male-aligned identity that in and of itself is a resistance against gender norms, homophobia and transphobia, oppression, and societal status. This identity falls under the gendervir, genderqueer, and genderpunk umbrellas.

This is a sociopolitical identity, much like genderqueer, but specifically for those who fall within the gendervir spectrum - this includes all male, male-aligned, and male-adjacent identities. Someone who is virpunk chooses to subvert the public’s assumptions on what it means to be a “man” and challenges the expectations, roles, and stereotypes that come with this identity. It is a very flexible term that can include those who are nonbinary, abinary, polygender, agender, gender nonconforming, and more.

There are no specific terms similar to this identity and it is not used as an umbrella term, but the female-related equivalent would be called erapunk - though this term has yet to be officially coined.

virfluid | demivirfluid | viritrumflux attravir | incognivir | nullvir obscuvir | quoivir | virpunk

third set of gendervir redesigns! i did coin one of these - demivirfluid!

virfluid: fluidity between male-adjacent, male-aligned, and/or male genders

demivirfluid (new term): one part of a gendervir identity is static while the other is fluid

viritrumflux: a fluctuating gender that is part gender neutral and part male-adjacent, male-aligned, and/or male

attravir:  being both gendervir and an orientationgender

incognivir: being partially male-adjacent, male-aligned, and/or male, but unsure of the other part 

nullvir: the undefinable, intangible, nullification and uncreation of gender in the scope of being male-adjacent, male-aligned, and/or male, either partially or fully. a male-related identity that’s nonexistent or present; a vir-gendered void.

obscuvir: an undefined or ambiguous gendervir identity

quoivir: someone who may be male-adjacent, male-aligned, and/or male, but feels that gender identity and/or existing gender terms don’t quite apply to them; someone whose relationship with malehood; someone who isn’t sure whether they experience malehood or what malehood means for them; someone who is male-adjacent, male-aligned, and/or male, but doesn’t care much for gender as a concept; an alternative to ‘questioning’ that communicates exhaustion or frustration with searching for a better male-related gender identity term for oneself