Quoigender is a gender equivalent to quoiromantic and quoisexual.
Some quoigender experiences may include:
- Finding the concept of gender identity to be personally inaccessible, non-nonsensical, or inapplicable
- Finding the experience of gender confusing
- Exhaustion or frustration with searching for a better gender identity term
History
The term quoigender was introduced in 2014 by Tumblr user epochryphal (Cor).[1] It was intended as a close parallel to quoiromantic, which was introduced in 2012 as an alternative to the humorously-intended wtfromantic.[2][3] The "quoi" in quoigender comes from the French word quoi, meaning "what."
Symbolism
A number of flag designs and symbols have been proposed for quoigender.
In 2015, Cor proposed cos own flag design for quoi identities, including quoigender, quoisexual, and quoiromantic: four lavender question marks, rotated in a ring to share a single dot, as if spinning in a circle. This design was overlaid on a cool grey background in a house-shape, instead of the traditional rectangular flag.[4] The choice of question marks as a symbol references the questioning basis of quoi as an identity term.
Another quoigender flag design was posted to the Pride-Flags DeviantArt account, although its original source remains unknown.[5][6] It features horizontal stripes in the colors of black, lime green, and pale blue.
More recently, some simplified designs have been proposed inspired by the nontraditional flag shape idea, using a triangular flag shape instead, with the intent of being easier to physically reproduce.[7] Like Cor's design, these designs exhibit a ring of question mark symbols sharing a single dot, except that the number of question marks is three instead of four. These designs have been proposed in both a green and a lavender version, in reference to previous designs. The lavender version is intended for quoi identities as a whole, as with Cor's design, "to honor its intentional vagueness."