Quoigenic

"quoigenic: (of a multiple system, otherkin, gender nonconformity, neurodivergence, etc.) I Don’t Know Why I’m This Way And It’s Not Important To Me To Ask, among other rejections of definition and origin story" (lizardywizard, 2016 July 30)

Quick Details

Coined By: Collective Solipsism
Term Created: 2014, August 25
Location Used In: tumblr

How It Got Made

In a 2014 tumblr conversation with Alnilam, Collective Solipsism discussed shifting plurality terminology from terms like "natural multiplicity" to circumstances of system origins, labeled by the -genic suffix (from which "endogenic" came).  This was intended to get away from DID terminology, or even the use of the word "multiple" or "plural" (Alnilam, 2014) which... backfired very hard.

Collective Solipsism liked this a lot and came up with quoigenic specifically as a reference to "quoiromantic" (lizardywizard, 2016 July 30), seemingly to push back with the fixation on false binaries and the associated demographic silo-ing on plural tumblr.  In their own words:

"Our answer to 'What caused your system?' is 'no' and 'stop asking' and 'that depends' and 'why does it matter?' [...] We just don’t think it can be as simple as 'the people who fit 100% the most current model of how DID is developed and its symptoms' and 'those who don’t seem to have any reason at all to be multiple, whose experiences are 100% incompatible with any description of DID or OSDD-1.'“ (n.d.)

Citations

Alnilam [not-your-fucking-pet]. (2014, August 8). Long ramble on terminology creation [tumblr post]. Retrieved 2019/03/14 from http://not-your-fucking-pet.tumblr.com/post/94222698873/long-ramble-on-terminology-creation

Collective Solipsism [solipsistful]. (n.d.). "quoigenic" [tumblr post].  Retrieved 2019/03/14 from http://solipsistful.tumblr.com/quoigenic

Collective Solipsism [solipsistful]. (2014, August 9). Long ramble on terminology creation. [tumblr reblog] Retrieved 2019/03/14 from http://solipsistful.tumblr.com/post/94225419645

Collective Solipsism [solipsistful]. (2014, August 25). greygenic. quoigenic. [tumblr post] Retrieved 2019/03/14 from http://solipsistful.tumblr.com/post/95739916135

lizardywizard. (2016, July 30). What's "quoigenic?" [tumblr post] Retrieved 2019/03/14 from http://lizardywizard.tumblr.com/post/148208855101/whats-quoigenic