“Speciesqueer

Speciesqueer includes anyone who plays with species as a part of their identity or life, including hobbies. It includes those who are fully human, but not human in a traditional way, like furries or some fictionkind, partial humans, and nonhumans. This includes…

• Furries
• Otherpaws
• Alterhumans
• Nonhumans
• Those with past lives
• Anyone else who feels like their species or existence is outside of the norm in some way!

This label takes a lot of inspiration from the term ‘genderqueer’ and all of the related terminology, For example, a masculine woman may be reffered to as a GNC woman: while a human furry may be reffered to as a SNC human.

Voluntary or involuntary, spiritual or psychological, inherent, coping, or for fun: Speciesqueer encompasses everyone.

This term has been used before but as far as I am aware it has never had a flag or true definition.

The flag was created using the ‘tab’ symbol. On it’s own, the tab symbol really has no symbolism: but when we compare it to the alt symbol, used for alterhumans, you can see that it not only differs from, but adds to the design of that symbol. You can think the same for both of those terms.

Speciesqueer is a label that is not a recoining, replacement, or alternate term to alterhuman, but rather, an extension of it. With that being said, feel free to use it as such personally if that term makes you uncomfortable!

I actually created it to refer to fictional characters. I wanted to explore “alterhuman” identities in my headcanons but that term doesn’t exactly work out when the characters were never human in the first place.

The brown represents humans, the light brown represents animals, the light purple represents those who are not quite either, (whether through being something like an otherkin fairy, or a partial nonhuman) and the blue represents peace and calm between these communities.

Go ham with flag redesigns and recoinings if you don’t like what I did with the term! /gen”

Coined by 8luelight around July 2024.

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