The Gender Exploration Carnival is one of several blogging carnivals – an event where a host blog puts out a theme for the month, participants create content and share the links with the host, and the host posts a round-up at the end of the month. For more information, you can check out the FAQ page.
For May 2021, the theme I have chosen to self-host on the Gender Exploration Carnival WordPress is “Pronouns.” For people who are not familiar with the post “Prompt Suggestions”, I did not include questions about neopronouns for May because “Prompt Suggestions” has a whole month dedicated to questions about them. However, the following prompts are merely suggestions, and you are not required to answer one question (or all of them) in order to participate as long as your submission is connected to the theme.
Suggested questions:
- Do you have any thoughts about “preferred pronouns” versus “pronouns”? Does it depend on the audience or who you’re having a discussion with? (Inspired by this post.)
- Do you like, prefer, or use only one set of pronouns? Two, three, or more sets? Do you want someone to try to avoid using pronouns for you when possible?
- Do you use or indicate auxiliary pronouns? (While this can overlap with using more than one set of pronouns, auxiliary pronouns are usually alternates. For example, emoji-self pronouns in text based spaces and a different pronoun set in spoken usage.)
- If you indicate or use more than one set of pronouns, how do you handle other people only using one pronoun set for you? (This can overlap with misgendering, but sometimes, it can be a refusal to alternate using two sets of pronouns or switching pronouns when you’ve switched to a second name.)
- How do you approach pronouns in other languages? Do you seek out gender neutral options (elle in Spanish, hen in Swedish, etc.), or do you feel differently about using pronouns usually associated with binary genders? Does it depend on your level of language learning (A1 or beginner versus fully immersed into another language and bi/tri/etc. -lingual), or when you started learning your language?
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The deadline for submissions is 2 am EDT [UTC-4] on 1 June 2021. I will post the round-up around 2 pm EDT on 1 June 2021 and will accept late submissions until then. You can submit an anonymous entry for this month by emailing genderexplorationcarnival@pm.me (the post will be self-hosted here on WordPress), or you can leave a link to your submission in a comment on this post. There is a corresponding Call for Submissions on Tumblr [here], and on Pillowfort [here]. If you have an idea for a theme and would like to host, please leave a comment on Volunteer As Host.
Here There Be Genders: A Gender Exploration Carnival 