{"id":2926,"date":"2023-04-17T15:11:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T20:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2023-04-17T15:11:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T20:11:17","slug":"hola-homosaurus-biden-admin-shells-out-six-figures-to-translate-gay-dictionary-into-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=2926","title":{"rendered":"Hola, Homosaurus: Biden Admin Shells Out Six Figures To Translate Gay Dictionary Into Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Project includes definitions for terms such as &#8216;anal fisting&#8217; and &#8216;jizz&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-113.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-2927\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-113.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-113.png 736w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-113-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-113-293x205.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-113-390x272.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Biden administration is spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to translate the Homosaurus, a self-described &#8220;vocabulary of LGBTQ+ terms&#8221; that includes phrases such as &#8220;anal fisting&#8221; and &#8220;jizz,&#8221; into Spanish, documents show.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s National Endowment for the Humanities in January&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-files\/NEH%20January%202023%20grants%20state%20by%20state%20list.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;the $350,000 grant, which will see the University of Washington create a &#8220;Spanish-language version of the Homosaurus.&#8221; The dictionary, which features a dinosaur standing under a rainbow as its logo, defines hundreds of terms and phrases &#8220;relating to bisexuality, trans, gender, and intersex concepts,&#8221; according to its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/homosaurus.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>. Examples include &#8220;anal fisting,&#8221; which the Homosaurus&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/homosaurus.org\/v3\/homoit0000042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defines<\/a>&nbsp;as the &#8220;sexual practice of inserting a fist into an anus,&#8221; &#8220;jizz,&#8221; which it calls the &#8220;slang term for semen; primarily used in the United States,&#8221; and &#8220;Indigiqueer,&#8221; a &#8220;term used to describe the identity of people who are both Indigenous and queer and view those identities as inherently related and interconnected.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden as president has championed the National Endowment for Humanities, showering it with record-high budgets that make projects like its Homosaurus grant possible. The endowment in 2023 received an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsactionfund.org\/president-biden-proposes-211-million-each-nea-and-neh-fy2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all-time high<\/a>&nbsp;$207 million budget, and Biden last month proposed a $211 million budget for the agency for 2024. Biden in October 2021 tapped Navajo Nation member Shelly Lowe to chair the endowment, and one month later, the Democrat&#8217;s White House&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/12\/08\/fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-administration-is-taking-action-to-restore-and-strengthen-american-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">identified<\/a>&nbsp;the agency as a part of its effort to &#8220;restore and strengthen American democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The endowment&#8217;s Homosaurus grant will see $350,000 go to the University of Washington, where feminist scholar Marika Cifor will oversee the Spanish translation, a project she says will take three years. Cifor told the&nbsp;<em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>&nbsp;that the project &#8220;received strong reviews and support from the NEH at each stage thus far&#8221; and that the grant will begin in September. For Cifor, the Spanish-language Homosaurus\u2014which she said would include as many as 1,600 terms\u2014will help solve the &#8220;basic struggles for information accessibility that many marginalized communities still face.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Endowment for Humanities did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Homosaurus includes a broad range of lesbian, gay, and transgender phrases. Some, such as &#8220;ass fucking,&#8221; are vulgar and self-explanatory, while others require a more specific knowledge of the gay community. &#8220;Bear,&#8221; for example, is not a term used to identify the carnivoran mammal but rather a slang term used to &#8220;describe hairy and large or muscular gay men.&#8221; &#8220;Fag stags,&#8221; meanwhile, consist of &#8220;heterosexual men who enjoy the company of gay men,&#8221; while &#8220;anal beads&#8221; are defined as sex toys that consist of &#8220;multiple attached spheres (or balls) that are continuously inserted through the anus into the rectum and then removed with varying speeds.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Homosaurus also includes terms that define minors under the age of 18, such as &#8220;bisexual boys,&#8221; &#8220;gay boys,&#8221; and &#8220;transgender children.&#8221; The dictionary, which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/homosaurus.threadless.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sells<\/a>&nbsp;children&#8217;s apparel bearing its logo, also defines &#8220;pederasts&#8221; as &#8220;adult men who have sexual and mentor\/prot\u00e9g\u00e9 relationships with adolescent boys&#8221; but says the term should only be used &#8220;in historical contexts.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Spanish-language version of the dictionary will take years, Cifor said in a March\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2023\/03\/31\/qa-developing-a-new-spanish-language-controlled-vocabulary-of-lgbtqia-terms\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a>, because a direct translation &#8220;doesn&#8217;t feel adequate and reinforces the centrality of the English language.&#8221; While the project will see Cifor directly translate some of Homosaurus&#8217;s English terms, it will also use &#8220;partner organizations&#8221; to identify &#8220;words that might exist only in Spanish and might not have an English equivalent.&#8221;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Direct translation seems simple on its surface, but it won&#8217;t be culturally adequate to the kind of vocabulary we want to build,&#8221; Cifor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Homosaurus&#8217;s database is maintained by the Digital Transgender Archive, a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net\/about\/policies\" target=\"_blank\">self-described<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;trans-affirming,&#8221; &#8220;anti-racist,&#8221; and &#8220;feminist&#8221; academic resource that boasts a &#8220;collection of materials related to trans-ing gender.&#8221; The archive is based in Boston, but its\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net\/about\/overview\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>\u00a0recognizes that the city sits on &#8220;the sovereign territory of the Wampanoag and the Massachusett Peoples,&#8221; an acknowledgement it says is &#8220;part of our commitment to working to dismantle the historic and ongoing erasures of Indigenous people and the widespread impacts of settler colonialism.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/hola-homosaurus-biden-admin-shells-out-six-figures-to-translate-gay-dictionary-into-spanish\/\">https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/hola-homosaurus-biden-admin-shells-out-six-figures-to-translate-gay-dictionary-into-spanish\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project includes definitions for terms such as &#8216;anal fisting&#8217; and &#8216;jizz&#8217; The Biden administration is spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to translate the Homosaurus, a self-described &#8220;vocabulary of LGBTQ+ terms&#8221; that includes phrases such as &#8220;anal fisting&#8221; and &#8220;jizz,&#8221; into Spanish, documents show. President Joe Biden&#8217;s National Endowment for the Humanities in January&nbsp;announced&nbsp;the $350,000 grant, which will see the University of Washington create a &#8220;Spanish-language version of the Homosaurus.&#8221; The dictionary, which features a dinosaur standing under a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-biden"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}