Girlflux Pride Flag
Identity Pride Flag ·
Tumblr user kitsuneshay-blog introduced Girlflux and its original flag alongside Boyflux on 19 August 2015, naming Womanflux, Femaleflux and Femflux as equivalents. [1] Girlflux describes an identity in which a person feels mostly or entirely female much of the time while the intensity of that female identity fluctuates, and it can be fluid with any other gender experience. [1] The flag carries three pink bands for that fluctuation and a five-bar canton for the genders a girlflux person can also be fluid with, the same construction as boyflux with pink and blue exchanged. [1]
Key facts
- Designer
- kitsuneshay-blog
- Created
- First documented publication
- In use
- Documented from its 2015 Tumblr publication, with later circulation through pride-color-schemes, DeviantArt, and identity-reference collections
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5
- Represented Identity
- girlflux
Also known as
- Girlflux Flag
- Womanflux
- Femaleflux
- Femflux
Archive categories Gender Identity Pride Flags
Overview
To name an experience of mostly-female gender with fluctuating intensity, paired with boyflux as a sister identity. [1]
kitsuneshay-blog introduced girlflux in the same 19 August 2015 Tumblr entry that coined boyflux, writing: 'One could also be Girlflux ( Womanflux, Femaleflux, Femflux) which would be the same but feeling mostly female on most days.' [1] The pride-color-schemes catalog restates the definition as feeling mostly or all female most of the time with fluctuating intensity of female identity, 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
kitsuneshay-blog
Term coiner and original flag designer
kitsuneshay-blog is the pseudonymous Tumblr creator who coined the paired terms boyflux and girlflux and designed both original flags in a single post of 19 August 2015. No identification beyond the Tumblr pseudonym is documented. [1]
Motivations
- Self-coinage of a gender label that fit the creator's experience and was distinct from genderfluid and bigender. [1]
Attribution notes
The flag is attributed to the pseudonymous Tumblr creator kitsuneshay-blog, whose post of 19 August 2015 introduces girlflux alongside boyflux, presents both flags, and defines girlflux through the same design with pink and blue exchanged. [1] pride-color-schemes' catalog posts credit the term's coinage and the canton flag to kitsuneshay-blog, and the 2017 DeviantArt record repeats the coinage credit. [2][3] No identification beyond the Tumblr pseudonym is documented, and no portrait exists.
Origin
- Place Type
- online platform
- Digital Origin
- Yes
Originated on Tumblr at kitsuneshay-blog.tumblr.com on 19 August 2015, in the same post that introduced boyflux. [1]
Dates & Chronology
- Year Created
- Exact date
- First documented publication
- Period in Use
- Documented from its 2015 Tumblr publication, with later circulation through pride-color-schemes, DeviantArt, and identity-reference collections
Circulated on Tumblr from 2015: pride-color-schemes reproduced the definitions and flags with credit to kitsuneshay-blog on 24 July 2016, and archival blogs preserve the origin post in reblog chains identifying it as the origin of boyflux and girlflux. [2][1] The separately attributed seven-stripe design of January 2017 is widely reproduced in later reference guides, which date the flag from that upload. [3][4]
Later alternatives. pride-color-schemes' girlflux catalog post of 24 July 2016 shows the canton original credited to kitsuneshay-blog and an eight-stripe linear design credited to Mod Hermy, the canton's five colors as thin full-width stripes above the three pink bands. [2] A symmetric seven-stripe girlflux design, also by Mod Hermy and chosen from the collective's unused designs at an anonymous request, was published by Pride-Flags on DeviantArt on 19 January 2017 at 12:47:36 PST, 20:47 by UTC the same day; the Wikimedia Commons derivative's file page dates it 20 January. [3][5] The same seven-stripe image was later added to the 2016 catalog post; its media file dates to 11 February 2017. [2] These are separately attributed later designs, not revisions of the 2015 original.
Lineage
- Related flags
- Aceflux Pride Flag, Boyflux Pride Flag, Demigirl Pride Flag, Genderflux Pride Flag
Girlflux and boyflux are reciprocal sister designs: coined by the same creator, published in the same 19 August 2015 post, sharing the same three-band construction with a five-bar canton, and related by a creator-directed exchange of pink and blue; the origin post defines girlflux as 'the same but feeling mostly female on most days.' Neither is the parent or descendant of the other. [1] The creator discussed genderfluid and bigender as existing labels the new terms were distinct from; neither flag is documented as a visual source, and the post credits no predecessor flag as a design source. [1] Genderflux is a conceptual and template-family comparison only; kitsuneshay-blog did not identify the 2014 genderflux flag as a design source.
Colors & Symbolism
The flag represents girlflux as a mostly-female gender with fluctuating intensity. The three pink bands carry that core meaning, and the five canton bars carry the broader range of genders a girlflux person can also be fluid with. [1][2]
| Colour | Hex | Meaning | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pink (three background bands) | — | Feeling mostly female while the intensity of that female identity fluctuates; one meaning shared by all three pink bands. [2] | — |
| Blue canton bar | #69ABE5 | Male and masculine genders. [2] | Modal value measured from the creator's 2015 source JPEG. Mirrors the pink canton position in the sister boyflux flag. [6] |
| Purple canton bar | #9C81B6 | Genders between female and male (or masculine and feminine). [2] | Modal value measured from the creator's 2015 source JPEG. [6] |
| Green canton bar | #55BFAB | Genders outside the binary. [2] | Modal value measured from the creator's 2015 source JPEG. [6] |
| White canton bar | #FFFFFF | Absence of gender, agender and similar identities. [2] | Modal value measured from the creator's 2015 source JPEG. [6] |
| Grey canton bar | #A9A9A9 | Unknown and unnamed genders. [2] | Modal value measured from the creator's 2015 source JPEG. [6] |
| Light pink background | #EE92D3 | — | Modal value measured from the creator's 2015 source JPEG. [6] |
| Medium pink background | #E068E4 | — | Modal value measured from the creator's 2015 source JPEG. [6] |
| Dark pink background | #C340CE | — | Modal value measured from the creator's 2015 source JPEG. [6] |
This flag has no official digital palette. Color values shown are approximate.
The origin post issues the meanings through the boyflux design and states that girlflux is the same with pink and blue exchanged; the pride-color-schemes catalog records the girlflux meanings explicitly, with one shared meaning for the three pink bands. [1][2] The origin post also published a pair of modified Venus and Mars glyphs labeled 'Boyflux and Girlflux symbols'; they are companion identity symbols published with the flags and do not appear on either flag. [7]
These representative values were measured from the surviving JPEG source file as the modal color of each flat field. Compression produces minor pixel-level variation, and the creator did not publish hexadecimal specifications. [6] SchemeColor and similar sites publish a separate girlflux palette that corresponds to a later design, not to the 2015 original. [3]
Design
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5
- Orientation
- horizontal
- Layout
- stripes_with_canton
- Stripes (Top → Bottom)
- Light pink, Medium pink, Dark pink
Three equal horizontal background bands with a canton across the left half of the top band; the canton holds five equal vertical bars, left to right blue, purple, green, white, grey, the blue first bar mirroring the boyflux canton's pink. The creator's image measures 1280 by 768 pixels, exactly 3:5: bands of 256 pixels, a 640 by 256 canton, and bars of 128 pixels, measured directly from the source file. [1][6]
Horizontal bands: 3 (light pink, medium pink, dark pink). Canton bars: 5 (blue, purple, green, white, grey). [6]
Three pink horizontal bands carry the flag's core meaning of fluctuating female identity, while a five-bar canton in the upper hoist carries the wider set of genders a girlflux person can also be fluid with, in blue, purple, green, white and grey. The blue first bar encodes the creator's pink-blue exchange with the sister boyflux flag. [1][6]
Usage & Adoption
- Online Usage
- Tumblr: the live origin post and its archival reblog chains [1], pride-color-schemes catalog posts reproducing the definitions and flags with credit [2], DeviantArt and Wikimedia Commons, carrying the 2017 seven-stripe alternative [3][5], Identity-reference wikis [4]
- Current Status
- active
The 2015 canton design is the documented original; the separately attributed 2017 seven-stripe design is widely reproduced in later reference guides. [3][4]
Image Archive
Original Artwork
Companion Media
Preservation Copies
Later Alternatives
Later Reproductions
Discourse & Debates
- Girlflux is sometimes presented alongside related but distinct labels including Gynefluid, Femfluidflux, and Venufluid; the pride-color-schemes catalog lists these as 'see also' terms rather than as synonyms. [2]
Common misidentifications
- Girlflux is sometimes confused with genderflux applied to a female alignment. The two are related but the creator's definition is specifically about fluctuating intensity of being female, not a female variant of the genderflux flag. [1]
- Reference wikis date the girlflux flag to 19 January 2017; that is the upload date of the later Mod Hermy design, whose own description credits kitsuneshay-blog's 2015 coinage. [3][4]
Womanflux, Femaleflux and Femflux are creator-issued equivalents, named in the origin post. [1] The pride-color-schemes catalog repeats Womanflux in its title. [2]
Footnotes & Citations
Sources and footnotes 7 sources
- 1. Social media Boyflux (origin post, introducing girlflux). kitsuneshay-blog. kitsuneshay-blog (Tumblr) (2015-08-19). Accessed 2026-08-15
- 2. Social media Girlflux or Womanflux (catalog post with the designs and their credits). pride-color-schemes. pride-color-schemes (Tumblr) (2016-07-24). Accessed 2026-08-15
- 3. Image file page Girlflux / Womanflux (3). Pride-Flags (design by Mod Hermy). DeviantArt (2017-01-19). Accessed 2026-08-15
- 4. Encyclopedias & Reference Genderflux (girlflux section). LGBTQIA+ Wiki (Fandom). Accessed 2026-08-15
- 5. Image file page File:Girlflux Pride Flag.jpg. Wikimedia Commons (2021-08-24). Accessed 2026-08-15
- 6. Image file page Original girlflux flag image (origin post media, 1280 by 768). kitsuneshay-blog. Tumblr CDN (2015-08-19). Accessed 2026-08-15 · Archived version
- 7. Image file page Boyflux and Girlflux symbols (origin post media). kitsuneshay-blog. Tumblr CDN (2015-08-19). Accessed 2026-08-15
Image Sources
- Rendering
- kitsuneshay-blog 2015 original
- The girlflux flag from the 19 August 2015 origin post, 1280 by 768 pixels. The untouched file as served by Tumblr's CDN at its largest size. [1][6] · Credit: kitsuneshay-blog · Tumblr CDN, media ID tumblr_inline_ntc6xqWqSr · No explicit license in the origin post
- Companion identity symbols published with the flags in the origin post, labeled 'Boyflux and Girlflux symbols': modified Venus and Mars glyphs. They do not appear on either flag. [7] · Credit: kitsuneshay-blog · Tumblr CDN, origin post media · No explicit license in the origin post
- pride-color-schemes' reproduction of the canton original in its 24 July 2016 catalog post, credited 'Designed by: @kitsuneshay-blog'. The post's alt text misdescribes the pink bands as blue, an error apparently copied from a boyflux description. [2] · Credit: kitsuneshay-blog, via pride-color-schemes (Tumblr) · pride-color-schemes (Tumblr) · No independent license established
- The eight-stripe linear girlflux design credited to Mod Hermy, shown in pride-color-schemes' 24 July 2016 catalog post: the canton's five colors as thin full-width stripes above the three pink bands. [2] · Credit: Mod Hermy, via pride-color-schemes (Tumblr) · pride-color-schemes (Tumblr) · No independent license established
- Girlflux / Womanflux (3), the symmetric seven-stripe design published by Pride-Flags on DeviantArt on 19 January 2017 at 12:47:36 PST, 20:47 by UTC the same day: designed by Mod Hermy and chosen from the collective's unused designs at an anonymous request. 5000 by 3000 pixels. [3] · Credit: Mod Hermy; published by Pride-Flags (DeviantArt) · DeviantArt · Standard copyright displayed on the DeviantArt page
- The Wikimedia Commons derivative of the 2017 seven-stripe design, 1154 by 692 pixels, uploaded 24 August 2021 under CC BY-SA 4.0. Its file page dates the design to 20 January 2017, the UTC-adjacent reading of the DeviantArt upload. [5] · Credit: Uploaded by Commons user Pretty Guardian Sailor Venus; design by Mod Hermy · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0