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Aginique

Retângulo composto por quatro faixas horizontais do mesmo tamanho, nas cores preta, branca, amarela e verde água.

Bandeira aginique

Aginique é um termo que descreve uma ausência de gênero autônoma, ou uma identidade de gênero que é simultaneamente autônoma e relacionada à ageneridade.

Essa identidade foi cunhada explicitamente dentro dos termos guarda-chuva ageegênero (para identidades do espectro agênero) e aueegênero (para identidades de gênero autônomas). Para aprender sobre o conceito de autonomia de gênero, a leitura da página aueegênero é recomendada.

Em resposta a uma pergunta sobre se uma ausência de gênero já não seria autônoma por si só, Gent (antigamente gender-resource no Tumblr, mas cujo blog original foi deletado) disse que a distinção estaria em um senso de autogovernância que não é afetado por interações sociais e suas consequências. Isto é, alguém que é aginique acredita que este seria o caso não importa o sistema de gênero da sociedade ao redor ou a existência de uma sociedade, enquanto outras pessoas no espectro agênero podem considerar que é a sociedade ao redor que faz com que estejam no espectro agênero.

O termo aginique é atribuído a arco-pluris no Tumblr, embora tenha sido postado por Gent em uma lista de aueegêneros em 30 de abril de 2020 e posteriormente de forma individual com uma bandeira em uma postagem de 18 de maio do mesmo ano. Gent se credita pela bandeira, a qual é dividida em faixas com os seguintes significados:

  • Preta: ausência de gênero;
  • Branca: autonomia de gênero;
  • Amarela: isolamento do binário de gênero e de concepções convencionais de gênero;
  • Verde menta: ser sem gênero.

O termo aginique é idêntico ao utilizado na língua inglesa. Sua etimologia é AGIN (agender in nature, agênero em natureza) e ique como em maverique.

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Captura de tela de versão arquivada de uma pergunta respondida por Gent sobre se faz sentido falar sobre uma ausência de gênero autônoma:

"So I came across your page and was wondering what anginique mean in more detail? I'm mostly confused about the autonomous part. A lack of gender is already autonomous, right?" Hey, anon! Thanks for sending me this question, it’s really interesting! :-) To answer your question properly, I need to venture into a couple of different topics: • What a gender is • What it means to be Genderless • What Gender Autonomy is • The difference between Genderlessness and Gender Autonomy • More on the term Aginique So, what is a gender? It’s pretty hard to define what a gender is and isn’t, as experiences differ from person to person and it’s hard to measure everyone’s experiences. Acknowledging my definition is a simplification, I would define a “Gender” as a social construct that is largely influenced by an internal sense of authentic self. In other words, I would say gender exists because of social interaction, both direct and indirect; we have to identify ourselves in terms of others, and if other’s did not exist, we would not have gender as we know it. The other component, which is the authentic self, play into many part of our existence, and Gender is no exception. When someone says that they are Genderless, in the most basic sense, this means that they don’t have a gender. But, what does it mean not to have a gender? We think often about being a boy, girl, both or neither, but what happens when you don’t even have a gender to label in the first place? If gender is the union of self-knowledge and a nuanced social construct, then being without gender means that one, somehow, does not participate in these concepts as a result of not “feeling” or perceiving themselves as a gender. This can encompass a wide variety of behaviors, but they all can result a lack of gender, or being Genderless. An individual that identifies as such may relate their lack of gender to concepts such as The Void, nothingness, nullity and other kinds of vacuity. I’ve talked about Gender Autonomy elsewhere on my blog, but it’s been quite a while, so it’s buried pretty deep within my posts. I’ll go ahead and restate the relevant stuff below: > Auingender, or genders that are Autonomous-In-Nature, refer to genders that are self-defined and stand independent from other concepts of gender, such as the gender binary and sometimes, nonbinary. A person with an autonomous gender may describe themselves as self-defined, liberated, emancipated or free from gender, it’s roles, it’s categorization and/or expression. Autonomous qualities are entirely personal and intimate, meaning that autonomy is expressed and experienced differently from individual to individual. A very concise way to think of it is to have a gender, to some degree, that is simply the result of one acting freely in terms of their identity, expression, etc. Some individuals with autonomous gender elements may say that their gender simply just is, and that they are best described as themselves. To simply restate the above, if a gender is defined by oneself, independent of other conceptions of gender that exist due to the human interaction, it could be described as autonomous. One who has a gender that is entirely AUIN would be called Autonomique. Agingender and Auingender have something big in common: they both reference gender in their definitions, but are defined as standing separate from traditional conceptions of gender and, essentially, not “participating”, but in notably different ways. The difference between the two is in how they achieve this: Agingender describes not having a gender, which can result in many modes of self-conceptualizations. Auingender describes having a gender, but it is entirely self-goverened and can exist without others, but not oneself. There is also many ways to reach this mode of identification. Aginique describes the union of genderlessness and self-definition. The definition can be restated as being Genderless, while maintaining a sense of self-governance that is unaffected by social interactions and it’s implications. In other words, even without the presence of others and all the things that come with living in a society, they would remain without gender, and this state of genderlessness would be defined entirely by oneself. This differs from being Agender in a broader sense (Agingender), which is not having a gender, and does not specify a presence or absence of the element of self-definition in one’s gender identity. I hope this answered your question! If you have any more questions about this, please feel free to send me another ask. :-)