The Snowflakes Fall On the Ever-Changing Landscape of Gender Language

In our community, we’re all pretty awesome at learning and using new terminology as it evolves, particularly when much of it defines our sexual and/or gender preferences. Relatively few of us identify as cis-gendered, and due to our receptivity to and curiosity for ‘the other’, it’s no surprise there is quite the banquet of non-binary identifiers. The same can’t be said of everyone, though. Non-binary has absolutely made the mainstream, and with it, the mainstream bullshit that goes with it, ie. There is only the binary and anyone trying to avoid it is just trying to get attention via being yet another special snowflake. Right?! When we did Episode Two of our podcast with Dance Movement Psychotherapist, Frank Farrugia, the conversation around the language of gender got some incredibly positive feedback, and a vast number of our listeners were struck by use of the term ‘post-gender’. For some, it was…

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