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   Jessica (rooster@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 01:14:09 JST Jessica

   I often tell my kid stories set in a fantasy world and there is a barbarian named Clarg that uses they/them pronouns.

   When asked if Clarg was a boy or a girl by someone else my kid proudly said “Clarg isn’t a boy or a girl Clarg is a BARBARIAN”

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     Jessica (rooster@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 01:14:15 JST Jessica

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     These are characters in larger stories that feature plenty of cishet characters, just like the world. My intention isn’t to make LGBTQ folks the only people that exist, but just regular folks in a larger society.

     I like using stories to normalize things she doesn’t experience in everyday life. I think stories really build the structure of the world in our head, and then we spend the rest of our lives unlearning it or trying to force the real world into that mold.

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     Jessica (rooster@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 01:14:16 JST Jessica

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     Of note there is a genderfluid Dragon that polymorphs into various human genders and my kid named it “Fierce the Rainbow Dragon”

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.