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K'lon (they/them)

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  1. I recently finished Marge Piercy's "Woman on the Edge of Time". It's been out for a looong time, but somehow I missed it in my devouring of feminist speculative fiction. But better late than never, yeah? :D
     
    It was intense and beautiful and I'll revisit it at some point.
     
    The thing about it that I want to talk about is the way the book talks about gender identity in the future. That future society uses person, per, pers as an inclusive gender pronoun for everyone. At first it felt a little awkward, but only for about 5 mins. haha! Then I fell madly in love with it.
     
    I am a full supporter of they/them or any other pronoun choices people have. I'm sometimes sloppy about remembering them, but getting better. I've been trying more and more to use they/them for everyone until or if they tell me different. (So many of us, including my old neural pathways, think we can tell someone's gender from their voice, appearance, etc. and it just ain't so). It's a new habit and been slow to change, but I'm working on it.
     
    I identify as gender fluid and have long considered using they/them pronouns, but for a few reasons it just hasn't felt right or stuck for me personally. I currently use they/she. "She" is not wrong, it's just not as right as "they". But again, "they" hasn't felt quite right either, but it's the closest thing I had found so far.
     
    I'm really in love with per/person/pers now. And I'm going to start using it as much as I can to see how it sits. I mean, I really really love how it feels when I think, I'm a person, that steak is pers, per is a wonderful human, etc. I can't even say why, but it's stuck with me since I finished the book months ago.
     
    For what it's worth then, those are my preferred pronouns: person/per/pers- and I'm going to practice using them in general when I'm talking about or with other people who haven't shared their pronoun preferences with me. It'll take some practice and I know it'll make me weirder, but it feels like a fun experiment. 😃
     
    I will not be offended if you still refer to me as they or she. ❤
    but if you want to play along, see how it feels for you, then please feel free. ❤ you are the persons I love. either way. haha!

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