Gender Nihilism is the philosophy of getting rid of gender in society altogether.[1][2]
It's qualified as:
- a disposition, a sensibility, a micropolitical strategy, a navigational heuristic, a performative absence, a forgetting, perhaps;
- a queer site of refusal and resistance; a creative potential; an experiment, a mode of living within, despite and against the regime of gender;
- a refusal of the injunction to know what one is, to objectify oneself as knowledge, and to make oneself known;
- a possibility latent within any particular gender position: that of disidentification, of non-identification.[3]
History
The noun is recorded since at least 1995.[4] The flag was posted at r/fullegoism by u/Yeetles in June, 2020,[5] although another flag colored with black featuring a transgender symbol with a diagonal line is recorded in November, 2015.[6]
Further reading
References
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/NonBinary/comments/9vosec/gender_nihilism_and_being_nonbinary/e9j47k0/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
- ↑ https://lgbtqiarchive.tumblr.com/post/646434443724308480/gender-nihilism#notes
- ↑ https://automaticwriting1.wordpress.com/2015/02/12/gender-nihilism/
- ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/23413700?seq=1
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/fullegoism/comments/gvhv4c/my_friend_made_a_gender_nihilism_pride_flag/
- ↑ https://insurrectrans.wordpress.com/2015/11/29/resumiendo-el-nihilismo-de-genero/