key type author title extra year fragments comment link submitter 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 Book 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 Sayuri ^Ueda The Cage of Zeus Translated from Japanese by Takami Nieda 2011 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. Takami Nieda refers to Spivak pronouns in the Translator's Note, although the Elverson pronouns are actually used. 01EP5KZNBCCAD2024012HFMCR3 provenane Book Ann Leckie Provenane 2017 “No,” said the person sitting in the suspension pod. “I don’t even know who that is.” E noticed the cup Captain Uisine was proffering. “Thank you,” e said, and took it, cupped it in eir hands as Captain Uisine stopped the blanket from sliding off eir shoulders. 01ENZG70VP5AZ3971D93MF4M14 starWarsAftermath Book Chuck Wendig Star Wars: Aftermath: Life Debt 2016 Zhe stands aside as more of zher crew rushes in. From the entranceway come the sounds of yelling, crying, another flash detonator going off. Eleodie hums a song in tune with the universe, hands behind zher back, eyes shut tight. Waiting. 01ENZG70VP5AZ3971D93MF4M14 starWarsAftermathAlt Book Chuck Wendig Star Wars: Aftermath: Life Debt 2016 I envy you today for the blessing you are about to receive as you are poised ineluctably to meet his highness, her glory, his wonder, her luminous magnificence—the picaroon! The plunderer! The pirate ruler of Wild Space! The glorious knave, Eleodie Maracavanya! 01ENZG70VP5AZ3971D93MF4M14 ancillaryJustice Book Ann Leckie Ancillary Justice 2013 She was probably male, to judge from the angular mazelike patterns quilting her shirt. I wasn’t entirely certain. It wouldn’t have mattered, if I had been in Radch space. Radchaai don’t care much about gender, and the language they speak—my own first language—doesn’t mark gender in any way. This language we were speaking now did, and I could make trouble for myself if I used the wrong forms. It didn’t help that cues meant to distinguish gender changed from place to place, sometimes radically, and rarely made much sense to me. 01ENZG70VP5AZ3971D93MF4M14 leftHand Book Ursula K. Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness 1969 He was so feminine in looks and manner that I once asked him how many children he had. He looked glum. He had never borne any. He had, however, sired four. It was one of the little jolts I was always getting. Cultural shock was nothing much compared to the biological shock I suffered as a human male among human beings who were, five-sixths of the time, hermaphroditic neuters.@Seven years we were kemmerings, and had two sons. Being of his flesh born they had his name Foreth rem ir Osboth, and were reared in that Clanhearth. Three years ago he had gone to Orgny Fastness and he wore now the gold chain of a Celibate of the Foretellers. We had not seen each other those three years, yet seeing his face in the twilight under the arch of stone I felt the old habit of our love as if it had been broken yesterday, and knew the faithfulness in him that had sent him to share my ruin. And feeling that unavailing bond close on me anew, I was angry; for Ashe’s love had always forced me to act against my heart. 01ENZG70VP5AZ3971D93MF4M14 bogiTakacsAbout Article Bogi Takács: About the Author Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 105 2015 Bogi Takács is a Hungarian Jewish agender trans person (e/em/eir/emself or they pronouns) and a resident alien in the US. E is a winner of the Lambda award for editing Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction, and a finalist for the Hugo and Locus awards. Eir debut poetry collection Algorithmic Shapeshifting is out now from Aqueduct, and eir debut short story collection The Trans Space Octopus Congregation was published in Fall 2019 by Lethe Press. http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_06_15c/ 01ENZG70VP5AZ3971D93MF4M14 maiaKobabeAbout Article Author: Maia Kobabe The Nib 2019 Maia Kobabe is a nonbinary, queer author and illustrator with an MFA in Comics from California College of the Arts. Eir first full length book, GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR is forthcoming from Lion Forge in May 2019. Eir work focuses on themes of identity, sexuality, anti-fascism, fairy tales, and homesickness. https://thenib.com/author/maia-kobabe/ 01ENZG70VP5AZ3971D93MF4M14 bookstoreEndAmerica Book Charlie Jane Andrews The Bookstore at the End of America short story from the collection A People's Future of the United States 2019 Sander stared at the space where Souls on the Land ought to be, and their pale, round face was full of lines. They had a single tattoo of a butterfly clad in gleaming armor, and the wires rained from the shaved back of their skull. They were some kind of engineer for the Anoth Complex. 01ENZG70VP5AZ3971D93MF4M14 intervention Book Kelly Robson Intervention in Infinity’s End, edited by Jonathan Strahan 2018 Émeraude unclipped and offered the doctor their hand. They were a kid with only two modes: all-out or flatline. A few months back, they’d injured themselves cranking on a crimp, completely bowstringing the flexor tendon. https://www.serialbox.com/serials/intervention 01ENZG70VP5AZ3971D93MF4M14 starWarsLastShot Book Daniel José Older Star Wars: Last Shot 2018 Now Taka was yelling something, singing, perhaps, in tune with the melodious love song that the world itself sang. They were insistent, there was somewhere apparently they wanted to be, and wanted Han to be, too, which was lovely. 01ENZG70VP5AZ3971D93MF4M14 mariekeLucas Article Alison Flood Marieke Lucas Rijneveld wins International Booker for The Discomfort of Evening The Guardian 2020 In their acceptance speech, Rijneveld said they wrote the words “be relentless” on the wall above their desk while writing their novel.|“Today, when the world has been turned upside down and is showing its dark side, I often remember those words. So, write, read, win, lose, love each other, but be relentless in this,” they said. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/26/marieke-lucas-rijneveld-wins-international-booker-for-the-discomfort-of-evening 01ENZG70VP5AZ3971D93MF4M14 kacenCallender Article Mordechai Laub Kacen Callender shares the importance of queer novels Young Entertainment 2020 Kacen Callender is a bestselling and award-winning author. They have written novels for middle school readers, young adult readers, and adults. Kacen Callender born and raised in St. Thomas of the US Virgin Islands. Some of Kacen Callender’s novels include This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story and Felix Ever After. https://youngentertainmentmag.com/kacen-callender-shares-the-importance-of-queer-novels/ 01ENZG70VP5AZ3971D93MF4M14 starTrekDiscovery Article Star Trek: Discovery Introduces First Transgender and Non-Binary Characters StarTrek.com 2020 Del Barrio was in their final year of studies at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art when they auditioned for the role of Adira. Del Barrio has been acting in theater and short films since the age of 7, and they’re incredibly excited to make their television acting debut in season three of Discovery. https://intl.startrek.com/news/star-trek-discovery-introduces-first-trangender-and-non-binary-characters 01ENZG70VP5AZ3971D93MF4M14 samSmith Article Alexis Petridis Sam Smith: Love Goes review – heartbreak album plays it safe in hard times The Guardian 2020 The lyrics stick fast to romantic misery, from infidelity to perfidious swine interested only in Smith’s bank balance. These are perennial topics for Smith, though as they told Lowe, their first two albums were inspired by unrequited love; Love Goes is apparently their “first proper heartbreak album”. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/29/sam-smith-love-goes-review 01ENZG70VP5AZ3971D93MF4M14 asiaKateDillon Article Ben Kesslen Nonbinary 'Billions' star Asia Kate Dillon won't be 'made precious' NBC News 2019 As Dillon explains it, when they started as a recurring character in Season 2, Taylor was ”sort of introduced as this moral and ethical center in a very unethical world.” A young, queer and nonbinary person entering the male-dominated hedge fund world, their character acted as an antidote to the hedge fund’s money-hungry male employees. But, as Dillon said, power and money “corrupt” and their character wasn’t immune. https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/nonbinary-billions-star-asia-kate-dillon-won-t-be-made-n983811 01ENZG70VP5AZ3971D93MF4M14 elliotPage Article Jasmine Aguilera 'I Am Trans.' Elliot Page, Star of Juno and Umbrella Academy, Announces Transgender Identity Time 2020 Oscar-nominated actor Elliot Page announced on Tuesday that they are transgender and their pronouns are he/they. The 33-year-old known for roles in Juno (2007), Inception (2010) and the ongoing Netflix series The Umbrella Academy shared a letter on Twitter Tuesday afternoon to make the announcement, one that was both celebratory and direct. https://time.com/5916800/elliot-page-transgender-announcement/ 01ENZG70VP5AZ3971D93MF4M14 ianAlexander Article Star Trek: Discovery Introduces First Transgender and Non-Binary Characters StarTrek.com 2020 Ian Alexander is a 19-year-old actor who uses they/them and he/him pronouns. He is best known for their roles as Buck Vu on the Netflix series “The OA” and Lev in Naughty Dog’s video game “The Last of Us Part II.” They are the first out transgender Asian-American person to act on television. They are also an advocate for transgender equality, racial justice and mental health awareness for LGBTQ+ youth. https://intl.startrek.com/news/star-trek-discovery-introduces-first-trangender-and-non-binary-characters 01ENZG70VP5AZ3971D93MF4M14 thousandsProtestPoland Article Alicja Ptak, Marcin Gocłowski Thousands protest in Poland demanding release of LGBT activist Reuters 2020 The police started releasing detained protesters on Saturday, but not Margot.|She is a member of the activist group “Stop Bzdurom”. The group have said they hung flags on statues last week as part of a fight for LGBT rights, an issue thrust into the heart of public debate in Poland during last month’s presidential election. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-lgbt-idUSKCN2540DM 01ENZG70VP5AZ3971D93MF4M14 starTrekDiscovery2 Series Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Episode 8, “The Sanctuary” 2020 – But even so, their work has been nothing short of stellar. They're... really something.|– They're also awake. 01ENZG70VP5AZ3971D93MF4M14