Round Up: December 2023

For December 2023, I accepted submissions on past prompts and received the following submissions:

Blue Ice-Tea – “Thoughts on Changeroom Nudity” for the theme Sports.

Looking back, it’s easy to see the changeroom as a lesson in both heteronormativity and gender normativity.

keygoose – “Negative Identity” for the theme Sexuality.

Some people really don’t want you to define yourself by what you’re not.

If you tried to submit something but don’t see your submission here, please let me know, and I’ll update the post. You can email genderexplorationcarnival@pm.me, comment on this post, or reach out via the Contact page. The theme for January/February 2024 is New Year. If you’d like to host for March/April 2024, please leave a comment on the Volunteer As Host.

Call For Submissions: January/February 2024

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.

I’m self-hosting the Gender Exploration Carnival with the theme of “New Year” for January and February of 2024. 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:

  • If you’re comfortable with disclosing: Do you have any personal goals for 2024 that you want to share? (It doesn’t have to be limited to increasing gender euphoria, any particular gender transition step, or coming out to a new person in order to be included.)
  • Do you have any community plans that you’re looking forward to in 2024?
  • Feel free to share about New Year traditions, including new years that aren’t January based like the Lunar New Year.
  • You can also revisit the theme Old & New.

The deadline for submissions is 2 am EST [UTC-5] on 1 February 2024. I will post the round-up around 2 am on 2 February 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 Pillowfort. If you have an idea for a theme and would like to host, please leave a comment on Volunteer As Host.

I was asked for an extension on the deadline for December’s submissions, so anyone still interested in writing for a past theme has until 2 am on January 3rd.

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