The Zyfron System, composed of Bernie and Z, first became aware of our multiplicity when Z dramatically gained and defended her own self awareness in high school some 6 years ago.
We are now living happily together with our partners, another multiple system, and working as a partnership towards finishing a BS in Computer Science.
After five years of silence, we’ve released a new booklet entitled “Becoming Median.” It describes the changes in our system after the last five years, including descriptions of Integration and the experience of becoming and being median. The booklet can be found here:
Click here to view the new booklet as a pdf
Special thanks to LB Lee for repeatedly urging us to make this booklet over the past few years and to LB Lee and the Mystics System for helping out with editing and review!
UPDATE: There’s now a text-only version that SHOULD (finger’s crossed!) be compatible with screen readers.
Click here for text only version of the booklet
This happens to us surprisingly frequently.
What?! Gemini updating? It can’t be! I was sure we were both dead! how else could the sudden and inexcusably long gap in comics be explained?
Yep, ‘cus I totally haven’t complained about feminist transphobia enough yet, right? Still, if you’re going to tell me I’m not welcome at your march cus you don’t want to fuck me, don’t tell me it’s because you’re or a feminist or a lesbian or anything like that — just be honest and say “Hey, I’m a creepy little self-centered pervert and I view activism as an excuse to get laid.” Believe it or not, I will actually respect you more for your honesty.
Hope you like the marginally different new art style — we switched to a drawing in Inkscape.
-Z
I’ve had this one and the last one drawn since January — it’s been a crazy couple of months and I wasn’t sure how things were going to pan out or if I’d just start a fight with Raven by posting these. Ultimately though, I’ve got to address the family change somehow if I’m going to continue to have Gemini as a slice of life comic.
Some of Z’s experiences trying to make new friends outside of trans/multi spaces.
Sorry for the late update, we have pneumonia and it’s thrown off our rhythm 🙁
Sorry for the late update, guys!
You may have noticed that the site was down for several days recently, but the issue has been resolved and we hope there will be no further downtime!
Even being out, there are definitely some unique challenges to being multiple.
There is a “Fourth Option” which would be to avoid all co-presence around lunch on those days. We don’t consider that viable for the following reasons:
1) We often use our lunch break to talk to each-other, so lunch tends to be a more co-present time for us.
2) We don’t always have complete control of co-presence.
3) Even if we managed never to be co-present in the locker room, the absent party would still have access to the memories when they return. Although we both believe that we could handle that maturely, some people could easily (and validly) consider it a violation of their privacy.
Anyway, we couldn’t find a way to make that into an amusing single-frame shot, so you get in down here as commentary 🙂
OK … So this is going to be more of a rant than an article because I’m speaking about something I know very little about.
In the process of doing research for another article I came across the term “The Cotton Ceiling,” which at first I was a bit surprised I hadn’t head before since it was being talked about like this was some big push in the trans-activist community and I thought I was pretty well informed about that. So, catching a hint that something was going on I should probably educate myself about, I did an internet search on the term and what I found was pretty troubling so I thought I’d post my reactions to it here. I’m basically just going to outline a process I went through today exploring the “cotton ceiling” um … theory? I’ll give my first reaction and then also more educated reactions I had once I discovered the context of the term and it’s criticisms … so if you’ve heard the term you might find this interesting and if you haven’t, maybe it will be a good heads-up about some pretty vitriolic fights going down on the internet now and few months ago. There was a flurry of activity about 6-8 months ago but I doubt this issue is dead.
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