distress Book Greg ^Egan Distress 1995 Every journalist paraphrased vis subjects (p. 19)@Ve was dressed in black jeans and a loose black T-shirt. (p. 95)@Science and technology seemed to have given ver everything ve could ask for (p. 194)@Kuwale hesitated and cast vis eyes down. (p. 195)@I could hear ver breathing slowly, trying to calm verself (p. 227) The pronouns are used with reference to “asex” characters (it's a sci-fi novel in which some people rid themselves of sex characteristics and sexuality as a, sort of, political/philosophical manifesto) and generically (instead of, e.g. singular “they”). 01EP5KZNBCCAD2024012HFMCR3
differentlyAnimated Book K. A. ^Cook The Differently Animated and Queer Society A short story from a collection called “Crooked Words” by K. A. Cook 2013 Pat couldn’t help a slight frown as ze got out of hir car. It wasn’t likely that someone was going to try and mug a zombie, but even so, the neighbourhood didn’t seem all that prosperous. There weren’t even too many cars around, just one down the other end of the street and a rusty bike chained to a light post.|Maybe ze shouldn’t have waited until ze’d be the last to arrive. What if everyone had come, decided that nobody was coming, and gone home already? What if ze was the only one to come at all?@This will be fine, Pat told hirself, in what felt like a ridiculous attempt to bolster hir courage. If ze had summoned up the courage for hir last job interview—and Pat thought ze would have gotten it despite being undead if ze felt remotely inclined to try and pass, something that annoyed hir job seeker support officer no end—then ze could summon up the courage to do this. This should be easier than a job interview! 01EP5KZNBCCAD2024012HFMCR3
prefaceTo Book Susan ^Stryker, Stephen Whittle Preface to a reprint of Leslie Feinberg's pamphlet in “The Transgender Studies Reader” 2006 Leslie Feinberg, whose particular style of being transgender helped non-gender-specific pronouns like “s/he” and “hir” achieve a limited popularity over the past decade, must be considered a founding f gure of contemporary transgender studies. Hir influential pamphlet, reproduced below, took an older (and apolitical) term — transgender — and infused it with a radical new meaning. (p. 205)@Though hir particular theory of history has not attracted widespread support in transgender communities, hir work has gained a devoted and grateful following for the powerful way it calls upon transgender people to recover their historical legacy, and to harness that knowledge to the current struggle for a more just society. (p. 205) 01EP5KZNBCCAD2024012HFMCR3
buckingThe Article Levi C. R. ^Hord Bucking the Linguistic Binary: Gender Neutral Language in English, Swedish, French, and German Proceedings of Western Interdisciplinary Student Symposium on Language Research, Iss. 1, Vol. 3 2016 Speaking from hir unique gender position, Feinberg highlighted what ze called a “crisis of language” (Owen 1996) which often results in clumsy dual constructions such as s/he, and which would be solved by abandoning binary language altogether in favour of specific language to suit complex gender identities. (p. 6) https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/wpl_clw/article/download/966/456 01EP5KZNBCCAD2024012HFMCR3
billions Series Billions Season 2, Episode 2 2017 Hello, I'm Taylor. My pronouns are they, theirs, and them.@– She spotted that from outter space?|– Not she. They. 01EP5KZNBCCAD2024012HFMCR3
sheRa Series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power 2019 Lord Hordak, I’d like to introduce you to Double Trouble. They’re our newest asset in taking down the Rebellion. (Season 4, Episode 3)@We captured Double Trouble! They’re refusing to talk to us, but... still! (Season 4, Episode 8) 01EP5KZNBCCAD2024012HFMCR3
comedyOfErrors Other William ^Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors Act IV, Scene III 1594 There's not a man I meet but doth salute me|As if I were their well-acquainted friend 01EP5KZNBCCAD2024012HFMCR3
deGrassiNext Series DeGrassi: Next Class Season 4, Episode 6 “#FactsOnly” 2017 My favorite vlogger did a thing about this. They identify as genderqueer. Or, I think there’s another name for it. Um... Genderfluid. They feel like they’re between a boy or a girl. Or both. Or neither. 01EP5KZNBCCAD2024012HFMCR3
theJoy Book Michael D. ^Spivak The Joy of TeX. A Gourmet Guide to Typesetting with the AMS-TeX Macro Package The quotes are from the 2nd edition (2004 reprint), the original was published in 1982 2004 Just as ‘I’ is the first person singular pronoun, regardless of gender, so ‘E’ will be used in this book as the third person singular pronoun for both genders. Thus, ‘E’ is the singular of ‘they’. Accordingly, ‘Eir’ (pronounced to rhyme with ‘their’) will be the possessive, and ‘Em’ (rhyming with ‘them’) will stand for either ‘him’ or ‘her’. Here is an example that illustrates all three forms: E loves Em only for Eir body. (p. xv)@If a book designer wanted to use underlining extensively, E would have to design a special ‘\ul’ font in which each letter has an underline as part of it; of course, the letters g, j, p, q and y would be one of Eir design problems. (p. 18)@If the author uses such notation, it should be up to Em to indicate Eir intentions clearly, but there’s no harm checking first. (p. 63) 1) Note the capitalization of the pronoun. 2) Spivak doesn't provide a reflexive form. 01EP5KZNBCCAD2024012HFMCR3
womanOn Book Marge ^Piercy Woman on the Edge of Time 1976 I’ve read of this and seen a drama too about a person who sold per body to feed per family!@Barbarossa dyes per beard, in truth. Isn’t it pretty? It was brown before.@Then the aunts person selected—advisers for the next years—return for per.@My child named perself this month, too. 01EP5KZNBCCAD2024012HFMCR3
arcaIs Article Patric ^Fallon Arca Is the Artist of the Decade Vice 2019 The Venezuela-born artist, who came out as non-binary in 2018 and uses the pronouns "she" and "it," has come to embody practically every positive thing that is synonymous with the 2010s. https://www.vice.com/en/article/evj9k4/arca-is-the-artist-of-the-decade 01EQRH10C3W5M9W7712204Y17B
steelBreeze Book Alastair ^Reynolds On The Steel Breeze 2013 Travertine’s a pretty divisive figure. Ve’s a friend of mine – or was, I suppose. When ve was last in trouble, I was one of those who pushed for a lighter punishment. The issue split the assembly – Sou-Chun was among those who felt we needed to make a clearer example of ver, if only to keep the rest of the local caravan happy.@You spoke to Travertine yesterday, when ve came to your house. How would you describe vis state of mind?@So Travertine had set verself on this path, constantly testing Assembly authority, chafing against restrictions, pushing vis luck. After the last censure, ve had done well to avoid imprisonment. But Travertine always rebuilt and pushed further. And Chiku had to agree with ver here – the Assembly always knew what Travertine was up to and chose not to intervene. Because on some unspoken level they wanted ver to succeed. 01EP5KZNBCCAD2024012HFMCR3
cageZeus Book Sayudi ^Ueda The Cage of Zeus Translated from Japanese by Takami Nieda 2004 The figure that stood before him was in eir early thirties with spindly arms and legs and slight features. Eir silken hair, cut evenly at the chin, shone as it moved. Although difficult to guess eir ethnic origin and not exactly beautiful, ey had strangely magnetic eyes. “My name is Tei,” ey said.@One of the Rounds, panic-stricken at the thought of being hit, began to run, pushing and shoving the others around em.@But Fortia twisted free from his grasp and threw emself against the terminal. 01EP5KZNBCCAD2024012HFMCR3
