Anesian is a term which describes someone who deep down knows their exact labels, but feels more comfortable using a different, usually more broad, label. This could be done for various reasons, such as wanting to avoid confusion, avoid being questioned, not being comfortable with getting specific and so on.
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The purpose of the Anesian term is to be inclusive to those who identify with multiple anesi- labels at the same time or feel like Anesisexual/Anesigender doesn't quite fit their experiences. For example, Anesisensual individuals might not feel included under the sexual/gender labels. Anesian also includes all tertiary attraction, identities on the polyamorous spectrum, those who use multiple pronouns and so on.
Examples of this include:
- A transfeminine non-binary aroace panromantic person stating they are a pan trans woman.
- A person who identifies with multiple xenogenders and anthrogenders (for example, Miaspec and Mingender) but states that they are a xenic boy.
- A girlflux eclipsic individual who states they are both a girl and a lesbian.
- A person who uses a lot of a-spec labels might call themselves aroace.
- A person plurian and monoflexible person who states that they are polyamorous.
- Someone who defaults to their AGAB when asked about their gender due to being unsure, unlabelled and/or closeted.
- A person who uses multiple neopronoun and exipronoun sets only revealing one exipronoun they use.
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Original meanings:
- Red stripe - sexual attraction
- Pink stripe - romantic attraction
- Orange stripe - tertiary attraction
- White stripe - pronouns, polyamory, gender(s) and others who feel like this term describes them
- Green stripe - aromantic/arospec people
- Blue stripe - aspec people
- Purple stripe - asexual/acespec people
This flag was made by the creator of this label.[1]
Etymology
The prefix Anesi-[2] is derived from the Greek word άνεση (ánesi) which stands for comfort. The -an suffix serves to be inclusive towards any and all identites.
History
Anesian was coined on 28/03/2022[3]. It was initially coined on the LGBTA+ Wiki Central Discord server by Roach before being published here by the same person.
Resources
- ↑ Coining of the label; image 1
- ↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ἄνεσις
- ↑ Coining of the label; image 2