How to Create Ungendered Narrative Voices

On Ambiguity: The Genderless Narrator Workshop Outline 2/2019 Sex is biological. Gender is cultural. How do we reflect the difference between the two in our writing? Is it possible or are we so trained to classify each other by gender? I present the idea that unless we know how we are using gendered language unconsciously, we...

PASS WITH CARE: a review

COOPER LEE BOMBARDIER navigates his journey to a sense of belonging through art, stories, and performance. The essays take us from a working class childhood in South Shore of Boston to San Francisco, Santa Fe, on tour across the States with Sister Spit, and more recently north to Canada where he calls home. His work...

Gender Neutral First Names

A Abimbola Abiodun Addison Ade Adebola Adebowale Adedayo Adi Aeron Ahn Ainsley Akachi Akira Ale Alex Alexis Alix Aleksandr and Aleksandra both go to Sasha Aleyamyehu Amal Amandeep Amani Amardeep Amari Amarjeet Amit Amor/Amore Anan Ananta Andile Andy Anh Ankhayar Anukta Aoi Apurva Aran Arden Ari Ariel Arista Aruna Asa Ash Ashanti Ashley Asti Atiya...

We Had No Rules: a review

Corinne Manning Arsenal Pulp Press, May 12, 2020 Corinne Manning’s debut collection of short stories takes us into the messy world on contemporary queer life, navigating assimilition versus rebellion and fitting in versus belonging. Written in the first person, the narrators tell of gay divorces, break ups, hilarious at times, sexy as hell at others,...

Glossary

Agender: Relating to, or being a person who has an internal sense of being neither male nor female nor some combination of male and female : of, relating to, or being a person whose gender identity is genderless or neutral.[1] In the print version of the OED of 1997, the word doesn’t exist. However, the online OED of 2020 defines it...