Editing Spivak pronoun (section)

== Usage ==
Spivak is one of the allowable genders on many [[multi-user dungeon]]s (MUDs) and [[MOO]]s (MUD object-oriented). Others might include some selection of: [[masculine]], [[feminine]], neuter, either, both, "[[splat (pronouns)|splat]]", plural, egotistical, royal, and second. The selected gender determines how the game engine refers to a player.{{Citation needed | date=August 2023}}

On [[LambdaMOO]], they became standard practice for help texts ("The user may choose any description e likes"), referring to people of unknown gender ("Who was that guest yesterday, eir typing was terrible"), referring to people whose gender was known but without disclosing it ("Yes I've met Squiggle. E was nice."), or of course characters declaring themselves to be of gender Spivak. Since 2000 this usage has been declining.{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}}

[[Nomic]] games, especially on the Internet, often use Spivak pronouns in their rulesets, as a way to refer to indefinite players.<ref>Martin, W. Eric. ''Meta-Gaming 101''. [[Games (magazine)|Games]]. Issue 193 (Vol. 27, No. 7). Pg.7. September 2003.</ref>

===Spivak pronouns and gender in virtual communities===
In online anonymous situations, Spivak and other gender neutral pronouns can be motivated by avoiding gendered speech that would make divisions in the social group more likely and the group possibly less productive or enjoyable.<ref>Herring, Susan. "Gender Differences in Computer-Mediated Communication: Bringing Familiar Baggage to the New Frontier." Making the Net*Work: Is There a Z39.50 in Gender Communication? American Library Association Annual Convention, Miami. 27 June 1994. Web. 1 Aug. 2014. <http://urd.let.rug.nl/~welling/cc/gender-differences-communication.pdf></ref> This contact with genderless pronouns in virtual communities is sometimes a person's first experience and experimentation with presenting their gender in a [[genderqueer]] or [[transgender]] manner.<ref name="CyberSociety 2.0" />

===Publications employing Spivak pronouns===
====Elverson 1975 set (ey, em, eir)====
* {{Cite book| date = 2011-05-26| title = Que Será Serees: What Will Be, Serees?| first = CJ| last = Carter| publisher = CJCS Publishing| isbn = 978-0-615-48304-7 }}
* {{cite web| year = 1993| title = Laws of Oceania| first = Eric| last = Klein| work = Oceania — The Atlantis Project| url = http://oceania.org/laws.html}}
* {{Cite book| year = 2007| title = Larkenia's Flaws: Volume 1| first = Morgan| last = O'Friel| publisher = TheSpindle| location = Grand Rapids| isbn = 978-0-615-14753-6| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ISBN9780615147536}}
* {{cite web| year = 2009–2014| title = Riot Nrrd| first = RJ| last = Edwards| url = http://www.riotnrrdcomics.com/characters/}}

===="Spivak" 1991 set (e, em, eir)====
* {{Cite book| date = 1999-01-20| title = my tiny life: crime and passion in a virtual world| first = Julian| last = Dibbell| publisher = Holt Paperbacks| isbn = 978-0-8050-3626-8 | oclc = 38832313 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=SK3VRr7bFVkC}}
* {{Cite book| year = 2003| title = Yib's Guide to MOOing: Getting the Most from Virtual Communities on the Internet| first = Elizabeth| last = Hess| publisher = Trafford Publishing| isbn = 978-1-4120-0290-5 | oclc = 52196000 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=2l5yrb2rJ9EC}}
* {{Cite book| year = 2000| contribution = Ethics, Plugged and Unplugged: The Pegagogy of Disorderly Conduct| first = Jane| last = Love| title = Taking flight with OWLs: Examining Electronic Writing Center Work| editor1-first = James A.| editor1-last = Inman| editor2-first = Donna N.| editor2-last = Sewell| publisher = Taylor & Francis| isbn = 0-8058-3171-1 | oclc = 44959404 | id = {{LCC|PE1414.T24 1999}}| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=aFKqSzIxCLkC&pg=PA190}}
* {{Cite book| year = 1997| title = Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism| first = Steven| last = Shaviro| author-link = Steven Shaviro| publisher = Serpent's Tail| location = London| isbn = 978-1-85242-430-5 | oclc = 36149141 | lccn = 96068813}}
* {{Cite book| date = 1990-04-01| title = The Joy of TeX: A Gourmet Guide to Typesetting with the AMS-TeX Macro Package| first = Michael| last = Spivak| publisher = American Mathematical Soc.| author-link = Michael Spivak| edition = 2nd| isbn = 978-0-8218-2997-4 | oclc = 22119488}}{{efn|name=joyoftex}}
* {{Cite book| date = 2004-03-31| title = Hello World : travels in virtuality| first = Sue| last = Thomas| publisher = Raw Nerve Books| isbn = 978-0-9536585-6-5 | oclc = 56680697 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4vweAQAAIAAJ}}
* the [[Orion's Arm]] universe<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/495360fba7a46 |title=Pronouns, Anglish |date=2001-03-06 |website=orionsarm.com |access-date=2017-07-26 }}</ref>
* {{Cite book| date = 2017-11-26| title = Provenance| first = Ann| last = Leckie| publisher = Orbit| location = New York | isbn = 978-0-3163886-3-4 | oclc = 987155122 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=B2CHDgAAQBAJ}}
* {{Cite book | year = 2019 | title = Gender Queer : a memoir | first = Maia | last = Kobabe | author-link = Maia Kobabe | publisher = Lion Forge | isbn = 978-1549304002 | oclc = 1106371004}}