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Hello tumblr! This is @ipso-faculty and I'm creating a dedicated tumblr for the flags and coinings I'm creating. This is a side-tumblr of mine and hence I'll follow back as @ipso-faculty.

Edit 2025-12-30: I've been informed that I have been marked red on Shinigami Eyes. I wish I knew why. I don't know if it's because I am intersex, if it's because I make flags for microlabels, if have some actual internalized transphobia to work on, or if it's just TERFs abusing the extension. I support trans rights and consider myself part of the broader trans* community. 🏳️‍⚧️

I am intergender, demigender, intersex, disabled (POTS, long covid, AuDHD), bi/pan, ambiamorous, as well as a white settler. I mostly make intersex and disability oriented flags.

General notes - All flags I make are public domain unless noted otherwise. This means you can share and remix as you desire. No credit is needed, no permission needs to be asked. Have fun! - You do not need my permission to make wiki pages for terms I coined, just go for it :)

Design philosophy - My primary goal is to make flags that are comprehensible. I see flags as a form of communication and I like it when flags have patterns in their meanings and designs.

How to request a flag - How it works: you send me a request, I send you some prototypes, you let me know what you like or what to change, and once you're satisfied I'll post it. I'll only mention your username if I have your explicit permission to do so. - In order for me to send you prototypes, I need to be able to DM you. For my own cognitive needs, I need to be able to see a *threaded conversation*. The problem with Tumblr's ask system is if I answer your ask privately, I cannot see what I wrote. So if you reply back with "I liked flag #2" I actually don't know which flag you liked!!! - I am no longer accepting requests from users who will not let me DM them. The lack of threaded conversation via Asks is cognitively inaccessible to me. - Please only ask for flags of identities that you have (or have a legit connection to the relevant community). I want to be able to consult with you on prototypes and know that the designs I'm making are appropriate for the relevant identity group. - When asking for a flag it's helpful if you let me know if there are existing designs, symbols, or the like you'd like me aware of or to get incorporated <3 ***

Flag resources (I'll be adding links to this that I find useful, so if reblogging check the original url for the latest version) Colours - OKLCH colour picker & converter - why it's worth learning oklch - introduction to perceptual colour spaces like LCH - introduciton to what a colour space / gamut is - Wikipedia's list of flags by colour combination

Flag layouts - Wikipedia's glossary of vexillology - Wikipedia's list of flags by aspect ratio

SVG drawing - introduction to SVG - Scaling SVG with CSS - MDN documentation on SVG transform - Bézier curve tutorial - Python drawsvg documentation - Python drawsvg library

Tumblr - How to back up your tumblr

Resources/guides I've written - Different ways to style infinity symbols (and why it matters)

I have some extremely belated flags for you! Intersex Abenaki, Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqey, and Wendat. Vibrant versions on left, sensory friendlier versions on right.

I have memory problems with long covid and without threaded conversation I couldn't remember which of the mockups I sent you was #2 😢. But I think I've deduced which it from poking around my version control history! I'm so sorry for such a big wait. I tried finding an SVG for the old Wolastoqey flag without success 😞. Intersex (Vermont) Abenaki

Design features the seal of the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi. They adopted their flag in 1991, and it is copyrighted. This flag is a derivative of their work, and so should not be uploaded to sites like Wikimedia Commons. 💜

Intersex Wolastoqey (two versions)

Top version features the new Wolastoqey flag, adopted in 2021. Bottom version is the classic (previous) flag. To the best of my knowledge, both designs are copyrighted. The Wolastoqey are also known as Wolastoqiyik and Maliseet. 💜

Intersex Wendat

This features the seal of the Wendat Nation. It was painted by Linda Nicholson in 1992. It is also copyrighted. 💜

Intersex Mi'kmaq

This features the Mi'kmaq State Flag. It was made in 1901 by Rev. Father Pacifique Buisson. It is the only native flag in this post that is in the public domain, and so this intersex flag design is also public domain.

For any intersex mi'kmaq readers, I wanna also give a little shoutout to this intersex puoinaq (two-spirit) l'nuk (mi'kmaq) flag that @ladyimaginarium has made! 💜

SVGs of the flags are available here, along with square icons, and the SVGs I used for the Abenaki, Mi'kmaq, and (new) Wolastoqey flags. I could not find an SVG for the old Wolastoqey flag nor the Wendat flag, so I'm afraid those SVGs just have embedded bitmap files.

Tagging for archival: @intersexflags @varsex-pride @radiomogai @liom-archive @indigarchive

Edit: after posting, it was brought to my attention that there is some disagreement within the Abenaki community as to whether the Missisquoi are Abenaki. I am *totally* unqualified to comment on the matter. If any Abenakis are reading and want a different intersex flag, please let me know and point me to a more suitable symbol. 💜

Eunuch pride flag

Eunuch: a traditional social category for people who have eunichoid sex traits or who are socially categorized as though they do. The term has traditionally included three major groups: - castrati: forcibly castrated men, often slaves - congenital eunuchs: intersex people with eunichoid traits, often congenital forms of hypogonadism - voluntary eunuchs: people we'd now generally understand as trans (edit to add: @beyond-mogai-pride-flags pointed out in the comments that some also did it for religious reasons! ty!)

Eunuch is a socially constructed category and in different times and places it has also included asexuals, men who spontaneously develop eunichoid traits due to disease/injury, and men who are unable to procreate for whatever reason.

Bright version on right, sensory friendlier version on left. Stripe meanings: - Dark teal: for having traditional connections to both masculinity (blue) and neutrality (green) - Intersex yellow: for intersex people who use or have been described as eunuch/eunichoid, both historically and presently - Orange: for men who are castrated or develop eunichoid traits iatrogenically (i.e. due to treatment for disease/injury, e.g. testicular cancer). On the rainbow LGBTQ+ flag, orange means healing. - Dark red: for forcibly castrated men. Dark red for blood/violence. - Magenta: for trans people who have used the term both historically and presently - Grey: for other groups sometimes included under eunuch who feel a connection to the term

The anonymous individual who requested the flag told me they wanted a eunuch pride flag that was explicitly intersex inclusive, as the already existing one is castration-oriented. Sorry it took me several months to get back to you! 😅

This flag is public domain.

Tagging for archival: @intersexflags @varsex-pride @liom-archive @radiomogai

Retrotransgender pride flag

A flag for intersex individuals who retrotransition: they transition to try and undo the effects of forcible medical interventions such as IGM and forced HRT, to have sex traits that are an approximation of what they'd naturally would have had.

Also known as XTX and ITI (intersex-to-intersex). These flags and terms are intersex-exclusive.

Flag is inspired by these transition flags that @bloomshroomz made. Symbolism is: - yellow and circle: born intersex - black stripe: being mistransitioned (IGM, forced HRT, etc) - violet: the binary gender that they were mistransitioned to - white: intentional/voluntary transition - purple: transitioning to a gender that is influenced by being intersex, and hence under the intergender umbrella - yellow trans symbol for added transness

Versions for retrotrans individuals who were mistransitioned to girl/feminine (XtFtX or FtX), and to boy/masculine (XtMtX or MtX), respectively:

And sensory friendlier versions:

Requested by: me 😁 I am retrotrans

Copyright: public domain

Tagging for archival: @varsex-pride @radiomogai @liom-archive @intersexflags

Recovering from a concussion

Just a quick update for folks who are waiting on autistic flag survey results and/or flag requests and/or other requests.

I hit my head a few weeks ago and have been on concussion protocol since (i.e. avoiding screens).

I'm starting to gradually reintroduce screen time and catch up, but it'll be a while. Thanks for your patience 💜.

Autistic pride flag survey #2

A big thank you to everybody who participated in the survey I put out a week ago asking folks to rate 60 different proposed autism flags on a scale of 1 to 5.

I have put together a shortlist of 13 flags based on the results of survey #1, and a second survey which asks people to rate the ten flags along different criteria (aesthetics, symbolism, accessibility, etc).

💛 Survey #2 is open for responses here! 💛

Shortlist selection exposition: To assemble a shortlist of flags for survey #2, I looked at which flags from survey #1 had a median of at least 3 out of 5. I considered flags with a median of 2 or less to be nonviable: too many people disapprove of them.

I then sorted the flags from which had the highest proportion of votes for strong agree (SA) to least. I think this is an important measure for flags to consider. A flag that is popularly viewed as "eh it's fine but I don't love it" seems unlikely to get a lot of uptake. These designs had a median above 3 and ≥20% strong agree (SA) Sorted from highest SA to lowest (left to right, top to bottom)

The Extranthaic version (upper right) of the Julietanboy design (below, left) consistently outperformed the original Julietanboy design, having a higher mean (3.5 vs 3.3) and higher SA rate (21% vs 20%). So Survey #2 only includes the Extranthaic version.

These designs had a median of 3 and ≥15% SA Sorted from highest SA to lowest (left to right, top to bottom)

The nautilus on plain grey had a lower median and mean than the nautilus on grey with diagonal stripes (3 vs 4, and 3.3 vs 3.4, respectively). But it had a higher SA rate (24% vs 23%).

Some folks in the reblogs of Survey #1 said they preferred flags with more simple colour schemes, so I tried adding in some simplified versions of the nautilus with just 7 or 8 shell segments after the survey went live. The 7-segment variant outperformed the 8-shell variant, but still was not as popular as the original. So, Survey #2 only has the 9-segment version.

The pun flag did rather well in terms of SA (19%), though it had a relatively low mean of 2.9.

These designs had a median of 3 and ≥10% SA Sorted from highest SA to lowest (left to right, top to bottom)

The nautilus on plain grey consistently outperformed the nautilus on plain white, which had a mean of 3.0 and SA of 13%. So I didn't include the nautilus-on-white in the second survey.

Of the flags with concentric infinities, the version with disability pride colours on plain white did the best (mean: 3.0, SA 15%). The one with ROYLG on grey had a mean of 2.9 and SA of 13%. These flags had a median of 3 but below 10% SA Sorted from highest SA to lowest (left to right, top to bottom)

Most of the flags in this set have a distribution that is a bell curve centred around 3 -- most people were neutral on it, and not that many people were strongly for nor strongly against.

The original Autistic Empire flag outperformed the versions which segmented the infinity. It stood out for having a rather skewed distribution: 8% of participants gave it a strongly agree, versus 24% who gave it a strongly disagree.

Full results of survey #1 here

💛 Survey #2 is open for responses here! 💛

Autistic pride flag survey!

There are LOTS of flags that people (myself included) have designed and proposed to be autistic pride flags.

I thought I'd run a survey on which designs folks prefer! My plan is to first do a long and comprehensive survey, and then based on its results possibly do a second survey (or Tumblr poll) with a shortlist from the first survey.

Here is a link to the survey on autistic pride flags! Please note:

Here is a google doc with all the flag options in it, if you'd like to see them first, or to have as a reference when looking at others' responses.

You do not need to be autistic to fill in the survey, but I do hope any non-autistic folks filling it in are familiar enough with the community to know why I excluded flags that have puzzle pieces or a blue theme (i.e. references to Autism $peaks). 💛

Survey link again! <3

Disability pride flag with a new meaning system

Happy disability pride month! After many months of discussions and three rounds of polls, we have new meanings for the disability pride flag! Thank you to @capricorn-0mnikorn (the flag's designer!) for all the suggestions along the way, and everyone else who gave input! 💚

In this system, rather than have each stripe represent a different category of impairment (physical, sensory, etc), each stripe represents a different model of disability ❤️💛🤍🩵💚 They are:

🩵 The social model of disability (blue): understanding disability as something that is caused by societal factors like lack of accessibility, rather than as a medical condition. For example, many wheelchair users consider what is disabling about being a wheelchair user is the lack of ramps, elevators, paratransit, etc.

The social model differentiates disability (which is social) from impairment (one's physical/mental limitations), inspired by the idea that gender is social and sex is biological.

The social model is kind of the OG model, and was big with the early disability rights movement. It influenced so many others that came after it, because it doesn't work for all disabilities, or even for all situations.

💚 The political minority model of disability (green): understanding disabled people as an oppressed minority who experience societal ableism, and who are working collectively to resist this oppression. This model isn't concerned with how or why people are disabled, it focuses on the ableism we experience. For example, folks with ME/CFS trying to get medical care and being dismissed, and the blind community suffers from braille illiteracy.

💛 The affirmation model of disability (yellow): disability is an identity worth taking pride in! Deaf gain, not hearing loss. Neurodiversity as something that enriches humanity. Whereas the social model is opposed to the medical model of disability, the affirmation model is opposed to the deficit model of disability.

❤️ The debility model (red): this is a postcolonial model that focuses on how colonial and racist violence cause disablement; like people who are injured by war, or preventable diseases like AIDS. This model differentiates disability, which has a clear before-and-after, from debility, which is a slow wearing out through repeated colonial/racist/etc violence. Unlike the affirmation model, this model views some disabilities as worth preventing, and focuses on how disability is used as a tool of racist/colonial/etc oppression.

🤍 Other models (white): there are lots of other models of disability! Like the medical model (disability is a medial problem), the human rights model (disabled people need human rights laws), and the cultural model (disability is a social construction). Models are lenses used for understanding disability, and one might use one lens in one context, and and another in a different context.

Why these colours? In brief: ⚪ White is often considered the combination of all colours. 🩸 Red has associations with blood and violence. 😁 Yellow has associations with happiness. ♿ Blue is associated with accessibility. 🟩 Green is a combination of yellow (affirmation) and blue (social), or for how the political minority model has grassroots organizing, in contrast to the human rights model.

🖤 Dark grey (or black) continues to represent our collective mourning of disabled lives lost to ableism, eugenics, violence, suicide, abuse, and neglect.

SVG version of the infographic here. ❤️💛🤍🩵💚

Tagging for archival: @disabilitypride @disabilityflagsarchive @radiomogai @liom-archive

Term coining: desmosex

I've recently been researching intersex representation for Intersex Wiki, including Intersex in Mythology and Intersex Art History.

And it's made me want a term for individuals like: - Ardhanarishvara, the Hindu deity that is the combination of Shiva (male) and Paarvati (female) - Hermaphroditus, the Greco-Roman god who according to Ovid was transformed to have mixed sex characteristics after his sexual harasser Salmacis got her body forcibly merged into his body in an act of serious body horror (note: there are alternate versions of this myth where he was born intersex) - Stevonnie, the Steven Universe character who is a fusion of Steven and Connie

As @praeobscura in writing the call for An Intersex Jam point outs, these individuals are not actually intersex. And thus, I coin...

This term would include: - fictional characters like Stevonnie - religious/mythical entities like Ardhanarishvara, Harihara, Lakshmi-Narayana, and the Ovid version of Hermaphroditus, etc - plural systems with perisex bodies who decide as a group to medically transition towards androgynous/neutral sex traits as a compromise for the varying genders of the different headmates - plural systems with intersex bodies who change their sex characteristics for similar reasons - a corelet who, because of their plural experiences, had changed their sex traits prior to final fusion

Note: I am not a plural system! I am intersex and median, and I personally interpret stories about "two individuals are merged into one varsex body" as an experience that belongs more with plurality than intersex. In coining a term and creating a definition for the mythical/fictional characters above, it struck me that there are probably plural systems out there who would identify with these individuals! Acknowledgements: @clairvoyant-weapons, who is an actual system, gave helpful feedback on the definition, coining, and the flag! 💜 And @goingrampant started the conversation that triggered me looking for a term for this, and was the one who first picked desmosex out of a list of several ideas I brainstormed. 💜

Flag is inspired by these transition flags that @bloomshroomz made. Symbolism is: - Orange, dark violet, and treble ampersand: plurality - White chevron and trans symbol: gender transition - Dark red: for the specifically embodied aspect of this - to be desmosex, one has to have changed one's bodily sex characteristics.

Copyright: public domain

Tagging for archival: @varsex-pride @radiomogai @liom-archive @pluralterms @plurchive

Edit for adding to Pluralpedia: I consider any term I coin to be in the public domain and no permission is needed to make a Wiki page for it <3

Of course! Vulvar hypospadias is a genital variation! Any intersex person can use whichever (and as many) of the intersex variation type flags I made that make sense for them! 💜

Flags for types of intersex variations

I made some pride flags for different types of intersex variations 💜 Bright versions on the right, sensory friendlier versions on the left.

Environmentally intersex: having an intersex variation caused by prenatal conditions, such as in utero exposure to diethylstilbestrol or synthetic progestins.

The flag features a placenta. The placenta icon used is by onclang and is CC BY 3.0. As such, I'm releasing this flag as CC-BY-4.0. 💜

Genetically intersex: having an intersex variation with any genetic basis! Examples include 46,XX with SRY and CAH.

The flag uses this symbol by Koson Rattanaphan and is CC BY 3.0. As such, I'm releasing this flag as CC-BY-4.0. 💜 Chromosomally intersex: having an intersex variation caused by having different sex chromosomes than 46,XX or 46,XY! Examples include Trisomy XXY and Monosomy X.

The flag depicts anaphase (the stage in mitosis when chromosomes move to opposite sides of the about-to-divide cell). If a chromosome winds up on the "wrong" side nondisjunction happens, which causes chromosome aneuploidies. Based on this CC-BY-SA 4.0 image from WC. As such, this flag is also CC-BY-SA 4.0. 💜

Genitally intersex: being intersex and having any sort of genital variation! Examples include ambiguous genitalia, hypospadias, micropenis, labial fusion, and vaginal atresia.

The icon in the middle is based on the first diagram in this infographic on human genital development. It depicts the genital tubercule before any sexual differentiation. I chose the colours so that it would look like a combination of the 🍑 and 🍆 emojis, which made me happy 😅. This one is public domain. 💜

Pelvically intersex: being intersex and having any sort of variations of the internal sex organs! Examples include gonadal variations like ovotestes and gonadal dysgenesis, and ductal variations like Müllerian agenesis and PMDS.

The icon in the middle is based on the first diagram in this infographic about sexual differentiation, depicting both the Wolffian and Müllerian ducts with the the gonads, before any sexual differentiation happens. It's based on a CC-BY-3.0 image by Teixeira, Rueda & Pru, so this flag is also CC-BY-3.0. 💜

Hormonally intersex: being intersex and having any sort of hormonal variation. This is a new variant on the flag I made earlier this year, putting it in the ring to be like the other flags here. It is public domain.

💜 Square versions for avatars & SVG versions available here. Thank you to @scifimagpie and @goingrampant for feedback on prototypes!

Tagging @intersexflags @varsex-pride @radiomogai @liom-archive for archival! 💜

Alternate intersex symbols

@lexicalblog recently suggested a new astronomy-inspired symbol for intersex that made me go "oooh!"

I'm personally exited for any alternative to the Mercury symbol 👍️ (Mercury is a reference to the h-slur, and was invented by biologists)

So I made some SVG/PNG symbols based on Lexi's idea! 💜 These are derived from this gender symbol from Wikimedia Commons. ......... intersex .......................... intersex fem ................... intersex masc

.... intersex enby .............. intersex transfem ............ intersex transmasc

SVGs: available here

Copyright: these are all copyright-ineligible (i.e. public domain) - but please credit Lexi for the symbols. The idea was hers, I just made them into SVGs.

Tagging for archival @interarchive @varsex-pride @liom-archive @radiomogai

Some specific intergender flags

I made these all in late June 2024 as part of my review of intersex flag mashup techniques, and only now realized I never posted these specifically to Tumblr (Whoops! 😅)

These are all flags for specific intergenders (genders that are influenced/connected to being intersex). They all take the most common flag for the combining gender and add intersex yellow stripes to the top and bottom. 💛

Inter-xenogender................ inter-agender................... inter-bigender

inter-genderqueer................. inter-neutrois.......... inter-trigender

inter-neutralgender..... inter-genderapathetic........ inter-maverique

Inter-maverique is maverique in a specifically intersex way, inter-genderapathetic is gender apathy that is specifically connected to being intersex, and so on. 💜

I am under the impression that all the source flags used here for intergender mashups are public domain on the basis of Threshold of Originality. My mashups are all public domain as a result. 💛

I posted SVGs to Wikimedia Commons back in June 2024.

Tagging for archival: @intersexflags @varsex-pride @radiomogai @liom-archive

Intersex & intergender sex worker flags

The red umbrella is a symbol of sex workers & sex worker rights. It represents beauty & resistance to attacks on social workers. ❤️

Top: intersex (intersex purple on intersex yellow background) Bottom: intergender (intersex yellow on intersex purple background) Sensory friendlier versions on the right.

Requested by: @scifimagpie

Licensing: the umbrella icon comes from Font Awesome by Dave Gandy, and has a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license. As a result, I am releasing the flags as CC BY-SA 4.0 (the newer, compatible version of the same license).

Square versions for avatars/etc under the cut.