TW for abse, SA, rpe, slurs, and various kinds of trauma. WHILN pronouns are only to be used by survivors, and anyone using a WHILN pronoun must provide auxiliary pronouns.
WHILN pronouns are pronouns that are whilom-in-nature. These are pronouns for use of trauma survivors to refer to and reclaim their own specific trauma. Read more about the term here. Pronouns marked 18+ should never be used by minors regardless of context, and WHILN is intended as adult only.
Assault & Abuse
- ra/rape/rapes/rapes/rapeself [rape victims/survivors only, 18+]
Stereotypes/Derogatory
- bitch/bitch/bitchs/bitchs/bitchself [individuals targeted in some way by misogyny]
- lim/limp/limps/limps/limpself [people with disabilities affecting legs only]^
- nor/mal/mals/mals/normalself [trans people, nonbinary people and neopronoun users only]
- ree/ree/rees/rees/reeself [autistic people only]
- shi/hir/hir/hirs/hirself [intersex only]
- slu/slut/sluts/sluts/slutself [survivors, sex workers, and others targeted by the term, 18+]
- who/whore/whores/whores/whoreself [sex workers only, 18+]
Slurs
- co/psy/co/cos/psyself [psychosis spectrum only] (1)
- cry/cryp/cryps/cryples/crypleself [people with disabilities affecting mobility only]^
- di/dy/dyk/dyks/dykself [people who reclaim dyke, including transmascs/lesbians/queer fems/etc., only]^
- fa/git/fagit/fagits/fagitself [people who reclaim faggot only]^
- heesh/herm/herm/herms/hermself [intersex only]
- heshe/himmer/hisher/hisher/himmerself [transgender and intersex only]
- spi/spik/spiks/spiks/spikself [Hispanics only]^
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‼️ key:
pronouns that are conjugated as plural (ie they/them) are starred (*)
pronouns and terms coined through this webpage have a caret (^)
important notes will be contained in brackets [like this]
pronouns with links, ie (1) will link to a source. links are from oldest/first coining to newest.
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