The idea behind this post is that I’ll link to it from the sidebar and in it define a bunch of jargon-y terms that I use. If you see a term in a future post that you don’t grok, leave a comment or send me an email, and I’ll add it to this post. These are the definitions that I think these words have. If you think I have it wrong, leave a comment. Unless you’re defending radfems, then don’t leave a comment.
Evenfall Minimodular – a nifty small synthesizer made by a guy named Evenfall. - FTM – “female to male” transgender / transsexual. One who is read as female at birth but goes on to identify as male.
- genderqueer – a gender identity that rejects the binary opposition of male/female.
- HID – “human interface device”. A joystick, gamepad, mouse, etc.
- hir – a gender neutral pronoun used like his or her.
- MTF – “male to female” transgender / transsexual. One who is read as male at birth, but goes on to identify as female.
- OSC “open sound control”. A system that does everything MIDI does and more. (see wikipedia article)
- Pass, Passing – “Passing, in regards to gender identity, refers to the ability of an individual to be successfully accepted by others as belonging to a gender opposite to that of their [sex assigned at birth]” – wikipedia
- POC – “person of color”. Somebody who is not white or somebody who is multiracial.
- radfem – Radical feminist, a member of a branch of feminism characterized by transphobia and gender essentialism.
- SuperCollider – A program that does sound stuff. http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/
- T – short for “testosterone”, specifically the pharmaceutical kind which can be used by ftms.
- trans – transgender or transsexual or genderqueer
- twitter – http://twitter.com
- ze – a gender neutral pronoun used like he or she.
. Very short blog-like posts. (“blog haiku” – Clyde)