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juxera
[juhks-eer-uh]
What does juxera mean?
Juxera is a gender identity created on Tumblr. It can be described as being feminine but not a female, like a girl but not a girl.
Where does juxera come from?
Juxera is a gender identity created by Tumblr user wulfgendur in 2016. In their post, wulfgendur defines the term as “a gender relative to female, but is something separate and entirely on it’s [sic] own.” The term itself is composed up of the Latin juxta (“near)” and era (“lady”).
Juxera flag / wulfgender
Those who identify as juxera consider themselves to have feminine characteristics but with aspects of maleness or of another nonbinary identity.
Wulfgender created juxera was created alongside the male equivalent, proxvir, based on Latin words for “next to man” and a gender identity of being masculine but not a male.
Juxera is defined in several community-run gender wikis, and discussion about this gender identity happens primarily on Tumblr.
Examples of juxera
Who uses juxera?
People discuss juxera and other nonbinary identities on such places as Reddit, Tumblr, Twitter, and Asexual Visibility and Education Network. As gender is fluid, some people who currently identify as juxera might not always identify as such.
This Week's Gender: Juxera: a feminine gender similar to girl, but on a separate plane and off to itself.
— Kek Street Journal (@AkukekeKSJ) March 17, 2017
well im still genderfluid in general but rn juxera really describes me rn pic.twitter.com/d9RvX5p1BK
— k (@dansluts) July 27, 2016
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