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Some anthropologists use cogender as a synonym for [[Third Gender|third gender]], that is to say, as an umbrella term for gender variant and [[LGBT+|LGBT]] roles and identities in various cultures. |
Some anthropologists use cogender as a synonym for [[Third Gender|third gender]], that is to say, as an umbrella term for gender variant and [[LGBT+|LGBT]] roles and identities in various cultures. |
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When anthropologists write about shamanic traditions among the indigenous Mapuche (Araucanian) people of Chile, they use co-gender to talk about roles that the machi (shamans) take on during their spiritual practice. Historically, as well as today, machi can have had any gender assigned at birth, and their practice involves ritual cross-dressing in order to communicate with certain aspects of their Creator as needed. At different times, they dress to take on a wife role for a male aspect of that deity, or to take on a husband aspect for a female aspect of that deity. The machi becomes part of a male-female pair with the Creator.<ref>Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, ''Shamans of the Foye Tree.'' University of Texas Press. 2007.</ref> As concerning "co-gendered identities"<ref>Bacigalupo, 2007. pp. 131-133</ref> of "machi as co-gender specialists"<ref>http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exbacsha.html</ref>, the machi themselves have often been categorized as [[Two Spirit|Two-Spirit]], meaning indigenous gender roles that don't correspond to Western ideas of the strictly [[cisgender]], [[Straight|heterosexual]] gender binary. |
When anthropologists write about shamanic traditions among the indigenous Mapuche (Araucanian) people of Chile, they use co-gender to talk about roles that the machi (shamans) take on during their spiritual practice. Historically, as well as today, machi can have had any gender assigned at birth, and their practice involves ritual cross-dressing in order to communicate with certain aspects of their Creator as needed. At different times, they dress to take on a wife role for a male aspect of that deity, or to take on a husband aspect for a female aspect of that deity. The machi becomes part of a male-female pair with the Creator.<ref>Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, ''Shamans of the Foye Tree.'' University of Texas Press. 2007.</ref> As concerning "co-gendered identities"<ref>Bacigalupo, 2007. pp. 131-133</ref> of "machi as co-gender specialists"<ref>{{Archive|Site=web|URL=http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exbacsha.html}}</ref>, the machi themselves have often been categorized as [[Two Spirit|Two-Spirit]], meaning indigenous gender roles that don't correspond to Western ideas of the strictly [[cisgender]], [[Straight|heterosexual]] gender binary. |
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Anthropologists writing about cosmologies in which everything is characterized as having female and male aspects have referred to this as a co-gendered cosmos. Based on the primordial male-female deity couple, "in highland Guatemala, husbands and wives are trained together as shamans by a shaman couple. [They are taught to] recognize both cosmic co-gendering and their own co-gendered nature [...] they learn how to properly balance the feminine and masculine dimensions both within their own bodies and the cosmos."<ref>Mariko Namba Walter and Eva Jane Neumann Fridman. ''Shamanism : an Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture.'' Santa Barbara, California. 2004. Page 134.</ref><ref>This summary is derived that on the Gender Wiki, retrieved March 23, 2019. http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Cogender_(Anthropology)</ref> |
Anthropologists writing about cosmologies in which everything is characterized as having female and male aspects have referred to this as a co-gendered cosmos. Based on the primordial male-female deity couple, "in highland Guatemala, husbands and wives are trained together as shamans by a shaman couple. [They are taught to] recognize both cosmic co-gendering and their own co-gendered nature [...] they learn how to properly balance the feminine and masculine dimensions both within their own bodies and the cosmos."<ref>Mariko Namba Walter and Eva Jane Neumann Fridman. ''Shamanism : an Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture.'' Santa Barbara, California. 2004. Page 134.</ref><ref>This summary is derived that on the Gender Wiki, retrieved March 23, 2019. {{Archive|Site=web|URL=http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Cogender_(Anthropology)}}</ref> |
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== Gender Inclusion == |
== Gender Inclusion == |
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== History == |
== History == |
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This term as a gender identity was coined on August 25th, 2016, on the Tumblr blog Cogender.<ref>https://cogender.tumblr.com/post/149490281241/introducing-cogender</ref> Cofluid was coined by the same user on the same date.<ref>https://cogender.tumblr.com/post/149510927050/cofluid?is_related_post=1</ref> |
This term as a gender identity was coined on August 25th, 2016, on the Tumblr blog Cogender.<ref>{{Archive|Site=web|URL=https://cogender.tumblr.com/post/149490281241/introducing-cogender}}</ref> Cofluid was coined by the same user on the same date.<ref>{{Archive|Site=web|URL=https://cogender.tumblr.com/post/149510927050/cofluid?is_related_post=1}}</ref> |
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== Flag == |
== Flag == |
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The flag for the gender identity cogender, and the cofluid flag, were created by Tumblr user Genderqueer-dream on July 23, 2019.<ref>https://genderqueer-dream.tumblr.com/post/186503907580/cogender-and-cofluid-flags</ref> They have no confirmed meanings. |
The flag for the gender identity cogender, and the cofluid flag, were created by Tumblr user Genderqueer-dream on July 23, 2019.<ref>{{Archive|Site=web|URL=https://genderqueer-dream.tumblr.com/post/186503907580/cogender-and-cofluid-flags}}</ref> They have no confirmed meanings. |
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== Resources == |
== Resources == |
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