In addition, the term 'queergendered' was used interchangeably with 'polygendered', and 'queergendered' itself seems to be a very early version of genderqueer. In as early as 1998, the term 'polygendered' was also used as an umbrella term for identities outside of the binary, similar to how the term non-binary is used today. The definition at the time was given as 'exhibiting characteristics of multiple genders, deliberately refuting the concept of only two genders'. The term polygender was in use as early as 1995, when it was specifically referred to as 'polygendered' and was alternatively called 'pangendered'. Or rather wasn’t.įrom up on stage, it’s much more common to see people almost singing along you know, at least moving along with the beat of the song.The prefix 'poly-' in this context means 'many', such as how the word polygon refers to a shape that has many sides. It was more something about the way she was listening to our music. The girl? She was pretty enough when it comes right down to it, but that’s not what attracted my attention. I might not have had the voice that would attract the screaming little girls, but I can piece together music and write a clever enough lyric or two to entertain a clever audience if you’ll let me be the one to judge. I could still envision my name in lights across some major stadium billboard. I myself wasn’t all that eager to set down my guitar. The three of them had recently decided that the time had come to quit the band game and actually grow up. The night? It was the final gig for the cover band I played in the group consisting of me, my older brother, and two of his friends. And the night being what it was, I’d probably had a drink or two that was fueling my system, eradicating any logical fears or plain self-doubts.

Most of my actions came about through trying to be a decent person, which is something try to I pride myself on being. If only I had let that notion run free in my head and ignored her eyes across the room, I might not be in half the trouble I’m in now. ‘It’s just a fairy-tale,’ I’ve always been told.

You might say love at first sight is a fantasy.

The Speed of Darkness If You Believe in Love at First Sight by Sarah Baethge

Trizendar History by Sarah Baethge