pinebark:

One fascinating discussion that came out of THATCamp PNW this weekend (full post to come) was around gender as data online, and the ways in which gender systems are encountered, understood, manipulated, and queered by users. Comparisons were raised between Facebook (forced-choice M/F system), G+ (M, F, “Other”), and Diaspora (which gives users a blank text field).

I’m still thinking through the implications of that conversation, but in the meantime, I’ve started collecting various hacks, scripts, and workarounds that users have developed to subvert gendered systems online. Please let me know if you’ve come across others or have developed your own that I don’t have listed.