Notes on gender in the Stone Isles

Let us imagine that we are talking about a fantasy world, another planet, despite the similarities to our own mythologies: knights, and talking trees, and unicorns, etc. The people of the Stone Isles do not speak English, but we render everything of their language into English for our own convenience. The language of the Stone Isles has three gendered concepts: Man, male. Related to the words for day, bright. Pronouns: he/him. Woman, female. Related to the words for night, darkness. Pronouns: she/her. Gender nonconfirming. Individuals use poetic words to describe their individual gender expression, including "gloaming," "twilit," etc. Pronouns: they/them; alternately "hesh/himer/hiser"* * Terms for non-gendered third person singular pronouns used by fan communities since the 1950s in a desire for accuracy and strangeness. Despite a third gender, the Stone Isles are not necessarily "enlightened" when it comes to topics of bioessentialism, gender identity, gendered roles, cultural…

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