diamoricpositivity:

kinda-girls:

There probably is but I’m not easily finding one that has all the terms, so let’s see if I can make one!

Okay, the basic idea is this: some nonbinary people feel some kind of connection to a binary gender, even though they don’t totally (or at all) identify with it, and sometimes they choose to express that in their identity as ‘aligning’ with that gender. The older and better-known terms for this are ‘woman-aligned’ and ‘man-aligned’ (sometimes you’ll also see male/female or masc/fem or other similar things instead of woman/man). Of course, lots of nonbinary people aren’t aligned with either binary gender, and some might align with more than one or otherwise not neatly fit into this system.

While this language has been helpful for plenty of nb people, some felt that it was too close to binary language and was being used to imply that, for example, woman-aligned nbs are ‘basically the same as women.’ So about a year ago, a few enbies decided to come up with terms that could express these concepts while being more clearly nonbinary. They decided to base it on the idea that in a lot of cultures (though definitely not all), the moon is viewed as female when personified, and the sun is viewed as male. This led to the basic terms:

lunarian is the replacement for woman-aligned, and refers to a nonbinary person who identifies partially with womanhood or has ties to womanhood or femininity

solarian is the replacement for man-aligned, and refers to a nonbinary person who identifies partially with manhood or has ties to manhood or masculinity

stellarian is a neutral middle ground for people who don’t have either alignment, though it can also be combined with others (as later on in the list) to express being both aligned and unaligned

there’s also singularian, which is someone who totally rejects the alignment system

Now, because gender and nb people’s relationship to binary genders can be complicated, a lot of people identify with more than one of lunarian/solarian/stellarian–this could mean either that they experience more than one of these simultaneously or that they’re fluid between them. And this is where the terminology might get a bit more confusing, just because originally people were just combining the basic terms to get combinations, but then separate terms for each combination were suggested, leading to some pairs of synonyms.

stellunarian or nebularian refers to someone who’s both lunarian and stellarian

sollunarian or eclipsian refers to someone who’s both solarian and lunarian

solstellarian or novarian refers to someone who’s both solarian and stellarian

and finally, solstellunarian or galaxian or galactian (I’ve seen it spelled both ways) refers to someone who’s all three: solarian and lunarian and stellarian

I hope that was helpful!

Also you don’t have to use any of these words if you dont want to! Its all about what you feel most comfortable with, never let anyone tell you that you need to use a label!

-SynHeart