r/GenderAnarchy

Paints used:

NicPro White
NicPro Sky Blue
NicPro Pink
NicPro Metallic Gunmetal
NicPro Orange

This artwork took me well outside my comfort zone, but I’m so pleased with the final result.
The two witches feature the trans, lesbian, asexual and genderfluid colours.

A huge thank you to the person who asked me to create this. Thank you for trusting me with such a special piece. 💜

It’s a process.

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Okay, I'm a teenage amab, I'm going into 11th grade at a very backwoods-y school. I feel like I'm genderfluid, but also am too scared to come out, I go by two names with people I'm close with, Ash and Mac (neither my legal name and both gender-neutral, Ash is one I chose and Mac is a name I've had since I was a baby) I also go by Mac at school, and I don't feel any euphoria from it, unlike Ash, but also no dysphoria. Anyway, the name isn't the issue, as I've said, I'm too scared to come out at school, and I'm pretty sure one of my teachers knows I'm genderqueer. (Not neccicairly genderfluid)(I accidentally put Ash as my name on an assignment instead of Mac as I use both equally) That's whatever, the teachers are very supportive. I'm more scared about the kids, because well yes, as every school does, we have our group of LGBTQ+ people, practically all of them believe some really heinous stuff about me (I'm not gonna go into detail, but it involves a girl accusing me of stuff) so I'm scared to come out because:

A) most of the kids are homophobic and transphobic

B) most of the lgbtq+ kids will think I'm just using that to make an excuse for myself

C) I've actually used a pretty fem voice at school when I was sick and the country guys immediately picked up on it

So here is my question with all this context: do I continue wearing baggy clothes to seem more gender-neutral, and wait the two years until my graduation and drop the bombshell: IM NOT CISHET FUNNILY ENOUGH (bc I pass as cishet and everyone I come out to is like: "I beg your FINEST FUCKING PARDON" /ref. ORRR do I come out now and risk being bullied for the next two years of high school

This is part of a bigger project I work on with my friend. A fun series of mythological queer creatures all corresponding to a different design for a coat of arms of different gender identities.

The corresponding post with the coat of arms designs HERE

Here we got:

-Hyrda of Omni

- The Phoenix of Trans

- The Siren of Lesbian

- The Winged Lion of Gay

- The Griffon of Aro

- The Dragon of Ace

- The Harpy of Sapphic

- The Minotaur of Achillean

- The Oroboros of Intersex

- The Hippocampus of Genderfluid

- The Squinx of AroAce

We thought about making stickers out of these for our planned pin or patch run with these designs, but let's see...