I just find the in-universe cultural baggage and expectations that come with completely alien gender systems fascinating by Gabriella_Gadfly Related: What book would speak to teenagers in this day and age the way that “The Catcher in the Rye” did in its time? List of saphic novels in Spanish. Books to help me up my flirting/dirty talk game for my wife. Suggest me a Female Villain mc Fantasy Book searching for wwii book i read in middle school
MungoShoddy on March 9, 2024 8:24 pm Try to find a book about slime moulds (Myxomycetes). One of the best known has 720 genders (and no brain) but some have as many as 36,000. https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5325747 https://www.newsweek.com/gender-identity-why-fungi-can-have-more-20000-sexes-704500
Grapefruitstreet on March 9, 2024 9:02 pm *Space Oddity* by Catherynne Valente and *What Moves the Dead* by T. Kingfisher.
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Try to find a book about slime moulds (Myxomycetes). One of the best known has 720 genders (and no brain) but some have as many as 36,000.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5325747
https://www.newsweek.com/gender-identity-why-fungi-can-have-more-20000-sexes-704500
*Space Oddity* by Catherynne Valente and *What Moves the Dead* by T. Kingfisher.