Girlflux Pride Flag

Overview

To name an experience of mostly-female gender with fluctuating intensity, paired with boyflux as a sister identity. ^[1]

kitsuneshay coined the term and posted the flag in the same August 19, 2015 Tumblr entry that introduced boyflux. The original post defines girlflux as 'When one feels mostly or all female most of the time but experiences fluctuating intensities of female identity. This can be fluid with any other identity.' ^[1] The pride-color-schemes mirror gives an example of a girlflux person being female 50 percent of the time, agender 25 percent of the time, and a mix the rest, and notes that girlflux can be compared to duragirl or agenderflux but does not require or imply being either wholly female or at all agender. ^[2]

Identity & Context

Represented Identity

girlflux

Subcommunity

nonbinary umbrella; flux pattern; female-aligned

Creators

The Creator

Attribution notes

kitsuneshay (also known by the given name Sé or Shay, with zie/hir/hirself pronouns, blog name Odd fox) coined the term girlflux and designed the original girlflux flag in the same Tumblr post that coined boyflux, dated August 19, 2015. The post explicitly attributes both flags to the same creator on the same day. ^[1] The pride-color-schemes mirror also explicitly credits the term coinage and the original flag design to kitsuneshay. ^[2] Real-name identity beyond the kitsuneshay pseudonym is not documented in the sources reviewed.

Origin

Place Type

online platform

Digital Origin

true

Originated on Tumblr at kitsuneshay-blog.tumblr.com on August 19, 2015, in the same post that coined boyflux. ^[1] Republished and explicitly attributed to kitsuneshay by the pride-color-schemes Tumblr blog. ^[2]

Dates & Chronology

Year Created

2015

Exact date

August 19, 2015

First public use

August 19, 2015

Period in Use

2015–present

Circulated on Tumblr from 2015 forward and absorbed into MOGAI and nonbinary wiki ecosystems. The pride-color-schemes mirror also presents two later variants: a stripe-only redesign by Tumblr user Mod Hermy that rearranges the kitsuneshay canton layout into a single-column eight-stripe flag, and an unrelated seven-stripe fading-pinks-and-orange design with a separate symbolic logic (orange as a mix of pink and yellow to represent a mix of girl and nonbinary). Both later designs are documented as variants rather than as the design origin. ^[2]

Major revisions

1. A stripe-only redesign by Tumblr user Mod Hermy rearranges the kitsuneshay canton layout into a single-column eight-stripe flag with the secondary canton bars stacked above the three thick stripes.

2. A separate seven-stripe fading-pinks-and-orange girlflux design circulates with its own symbolic logic, in which the orange stripe is described as a mix of pink and yellow representing a mix of girl and nonbinary. This is structurally and semantically distinct from the kitsuneshay 2015 original and is documented as a later variant rather than as a redraw of the same flag.

The pride-color-schemes mirror also lists Gynefluid, Femfluidflux, and Venufluid as 'see also' terms for girlflux. These are related but distinct labels, not synonyms for girlflux. ^[2]

Lineage

Indirect influences

Genderfluid Pride Flag, Genderflux Pride Flag, Rainbow Pride Flag

Related flags

Aceflux Pride Flag, Aroflux Pride Flag, Boyflux Pride Flag, Demigirl Pride Flag, Transfeminine Pride Flag

Girlflux and boyflux share a single origin post by kitsuneshay on August 19, 2015 and are siblings rather than parent and descendant. ^[1] The kitsuneshay original post explicitly states that the girlflux flag is the same as boyflux but with the roles of pink and blue exchanged. ^[1] The relationship to genderfluid 2012 Poole and to genderflux is one of template-family resemblance rather than direct evolution.

Colors & Symbolism

The flag represents girlflux as a mostly-female gender with fluctuating intensity. The three pink stripes represent the dominant female alignment with internal fluctuation; the remaining color band represents the broader range of genders that a girlflux person can also be fluid with. ^[1][2]

This flag has no official digital palette. Color values shown are approximate.

All stripe meanings are creator-issued. The kitsuneshay original post states that girlflux uses the same color meanings as boyflux but with the roles of pink and blue exchanged; the pride-color-schemes mirror records the girlflux meanings explicitly. ^[1][2]

kitsuneshay's original 2015 post does not publish hex values. The values given were sampled directly from the archived kitsuneshay flag image. SchemeColor and similar community sources publish a separate four-color palette for girlflux, but those values correspond to the unrelated fading-pinks-and-orange later variant, not to the kitsuneshay 2015 original. ^[1][2][3]

Design

Aspect Ratio

5:3

Orientation

horizontal

Stripe Count

3

Layout

stripes_with_canton

Stripes (Top → Bottom)

Light pink, Medium pink, Dark pink

Three equal horizontal stripes in shades of pink, with a canton occupying the left half of the top stripe. The canton contains five equal vertical bars, ordered left to right: blue, purple, green, white, grey. The blue first-bar position is the structural mirror of the pink first-bar position in the boyflux flag, implementing kitsuneshay's design rule that girlflux is the same as boyflux but with the roles of pink and blue exchanged. Verified from the kitsuneshay 2015 flag image. ^[1][2][3]

Three equal horizontal stripes (light pink, medium pink, dark pink), with a five-bar canton in the upper-left half of the top stripe carrying the five secondary colors. Verified from image sampling. ^[3]

Three equal horizontal stripes in shades of pink (light pink, medium pink, dark pink), with a canton in the upper-left half of the top stripe containing five vertical bars in blue, purple, green, white, and grey. The three pink stripes represent fluctuating female identity, and the canton bars represent the additional gender categories a girlflux person may also be fluid with. The blue first-bar position mirrors the pink first-bar position in the boyflux flag, encoding kitsuneshay's pink-blue swap rule directly into the canton. ^[1][2][3]

Usage & Adoption

First Users

kitsuneshay (original creator)

Online Usage

Tumblr (kitsuneshay-blog 2015 origin post and pride-color-schemes mirror) ^[1][2], Nonbinary, MOGAI, and LGBTQIA wiki ecosystems ^[4][5]

Current Status

active

The kitsuneshay 2015 design is the documented baseline. The Mod Hermy single-column variant and the unrelated fading-pinks-and-orange variant circulate alongside it but are tracked here as later variants rather than as redraws of the original.

Discourse & Debates

• Girlflux is sometimes presented in secondary sources alongside related but distinct labels including Gynefluid, Femfluidflux, and Venufluid. The pride-color-schemes mirror lists these as 'see also' terms rather than as synonyms for girlflux. ^[2]

Common confusions

• Girlflux is sometimes confused with genderflux applied to a female alignment. The two are related but kitsuneshay's original definition is specifically about fluctuating intensity of being female, not about a female variant of the more general genderflux flag. ^[1]

Womanflux, Femaleflux, and Femflux are documented as alternate names for girlflux in the kitsuneshay original post. ^[1] The pride-color-schemes mirror confirms this. ^[2]

Footnotes & Citations

Image Sources

Rendering

kitsuneshay 2015 original