ABSTRACT
In light of growing digital cultural practices, new norms and counter-norms have emerged among younger people to describe gender, sexuality and relationships. An emerging taxonomy of labels, categories and identity descriptors is both more expansive and more specific than either traditional masculine/feminine and hetero/homo dichotomies. The emergent configuration includes dozens of terms and combinations, such as heteroflexible, asexual, homoflexible, sapiosexual, nonbinary, aromantic, pansexual and others. This chapter considers how this new taxonomy or lexicon of gender and sexual identity has emerged, the conditions for its emergence and the meanings for understanding gender and sexual citizenship among young people today.
