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<p>What Jeremy describes is what I've seen as both an attendee of
the IAGSDC convention in recent years, and as a visitor to a
handful of IAGSDC clubs in CA, NV, NM, OR, and WA. IAGSDC even
offers suggestions to non-LGBT dancers attending IAGSDC
conventions on how to "square up" as a boy, girl, or either:</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.iagsdchistory.org/historywiki/index.php?title=The_Guide_to_IAGSDC_Convention_Chapter_6"><http://www.iagsdchistory.org/historywiki/index.php?title=The_Guide_to_IAGSDC_Convention_Chapter_6></a></p>
<p>The Rosetown Ramblers (an IAGSDC club based in Portland, OR) have
a page on commonly-used "fluff" (including the "boy!"/"girl!"
thing mentioned previously) at
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.iagsdchistory.org/historywiki/images/3/33/How_To_Fluff.pdf"><http://www.iagsdchistory.org/historywiki/images/3/33/How_To_Fluff.pdf></a>.</p>
<p>Outside of IAGSDC world, at least in my neck of the world
(California's central valley, about 100 miles east of San Jose),
women dancing as "boys" is tolerated if not exactly encouraged;
women who do so may wear a necktie to indicate the role that
they're dancing, and some women will carry a "boy" badge or a
"boy/girl" badge that can be flipped so that the role they're
dancing is right-side-up while the role they're not dancing is
upside-down with them.</p>
<p>--Nick<br>
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<div class="">At MIT’s Tech Squares, “boys” and “girls” are used,
sometimes with “ladies” and “gents” thrown in. However, many
dancers dance either role. If you are dancing a role that does
not visibly match your gender, you typically call out (not too
loudly) “boy” or “girl”, when the caller gives a call that is
specific to a gender. As you get more accomplished as a dancer,
you seem to not need to call that out as much - if the dance is
moving, the flow of the dance should usually indicate who is
supposed to move.
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<div class="">On Oct 4, 2017, at 1:54 PM, Jeremy
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<div class="">I have a question for anyone who
calls or dances Gender Free MWSD (by Gender
Free I mean where no assumptions are made
about what role a dancer will take based on
their gender).</div>
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<div class="">I've been told that GF MWSD dances
still use the terms "Boys" and "Girls", but
please correct me if I'm wrong. </div>
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<div class="">MWSD is unique amongst folk
dancing in that dancers need to know the role
being danced by others in the square (if I'm a
"boy" and the call is "boys trade", I need to
know who the other boy in my line / wave is in
order to do the call). </div>
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<div class="">So to my question: How do the
dancers identify which roles the other people
are dancing? Traditionally this is done with
dancers taking the opposite role to their
gender wearing bands, but that is surely
inappropriate if the dance is GF.</div>
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<div class="">Also, if any MWSD clubs are using
truly non-gendered terms, please let me know.</div>
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