Several months ago, Sasha Berenstein, a gender-fluid Yiddishist from Oregon, proposed that the League for Yiddish publish an edition of “Words of the Week” that would provide the trans, queer and non-binary communities a way to express concepts related to their identities, as well as a list of gender-neutral alternatives to traditional kinship terms. Given this goal, note that this list does *not* include traditional terms that may already exist in Yiddish but may not be gender-neutral (such as grandmother, grandfather, mother, father, husband, wife, etc.). Note that for brevity’s sake, this list is not comprehensive and is intended to be a starting point for further work. Thank you to Sasha and the broader community for assembling the initial list and suggesting Yiddish equivalents, as well as Zackary Sholem Berger, Hershl Paul Glasser, Gitl Schaechter-
agender: אָ֜נמיניק
[ÓNMINIK]
child: דאָס קינד, ־ער
[DOS KIND, -ER]
cis-normative: צי֜ס־נאָרמאַטי֜װ
[TSÍS-NORMATÍV]
For the complete list, click here to go to the archive at “Verter fun der Vokh”
