I think a lot of the discourse on here, esp about intra-community issues, comes from the perspective of people who are a part of pretty insular leftist queer communities and assume everyone else engaging w their writing is too. so you have stuff like “white trans people are celebrated when they come out” or “everyone wants to fuck transmasc genderqueer people” as statements people are making, which are very very true in some cases from within these really insular communities but seem like you’re blogging from another dimension to people who like, live in small town Iowa.
I think this is why we get a lot of the tumblr arguments we get. like one person’s like “ask every single person you meet for pronouns no exceptions or you’re a bad person” and someone reading that who isn’t part of an urban leftist queer scene is like??? you want me to as the aggressively homophobic straight men who live in my open carry state for their pronouns?????? but no one wants to add “disclaimer: I go to smith college/live in Montreal/have completely forgotten what fear feels like” to their posts
Also why I think some people are so concerned with limiting who gets to be in the ~community. I’m from Indiana, I’ll take all the people I can get in my community.
^^^ that reminds me of why the advice to cut people off if they don’t share your politics or completely accept you isn’t always so workable, especially if you’re POC or marginalised in some other way. You’d be lonely and isolated, and there’s no guarantee that the queer lefty community is going to be able to make up for it (there’s been too many cases where people have come out thinking they’d get the love and support of the queer community, but instead the queer community ignores them because they don’t ‘look the part’ and their home community shuns them). And some of these people, even if they’re broadly homophobic, would still protect and defend you at all costs because you’re literally family to them.
YES.
I kind of want to tattoo “It’s not that simple” across tumblr’s collective forehead sometimes.
Tag: queer
all these filters lighten my skin.
they/them
Since Vine’s gonna die, here are some great queer vines from Thomas Sanders
I hate this vines because people applaud this guy for being so “progressive” and “supportive” but really he’s just using queerness as a punchline. It’s basically “wow look! You didn’t expect this person to be queer! Hilarious!! That’s the joke!!”
And then he gets millions and millions of likes and followers and praise just for that. People treat him like some kind of saint just for this. It’s pretty stupid.
first of all: sanders is bisexual. he himself is queer (if he identifies in that way)
secondly: I think it’s less about “lol they’re queer” and more about subverting the assumption that everyone is straight. The marriage proposal vine really hammers in this concept; one man is trying to propose to another and outsiders keep declaring that the relationship is platonic (even though it is not).
He also directly tackles his bisexuality in this compilation as well; showing that he is attracted to men and women, and when asked whether he is gay or straight, he answers in the affirmative simultaneously. Bisexuality is often misunderstood and erased; some people do not even consider it possible to be attracted to multiple genders.
third: queer people are allowed to be involved in comedy. we’re allowed to parody ourselves. especially if we’re subverting pre-existing tropes
Here’s my piece for @g1988 West’s “Crazy 4 Cult” show– based on the classic movie “Priscilla: Queen of the Desert.”
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