Icon from a picrew by grgikau. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
i love seeing support for he/him lesbians but i need you all to remember that he/him lesbians are not all women and are not all masculine. there are he/him lesbians who are femme and he/him lesbians who are nonbinary and they matter too in discussions of he/him lesbians. the example of “masculine women who use he/him pronouns” leaves out a lot of peoples experiences. of course, this post includes transfeminine he/him lesbians.
Story of my life people. You know what’s real ? The struggle.
Happy Pride Month ♥
this right here is why ‘queer’ is an identity, not a slur
QUEER IS AN IDENTITY, NOT A SLUR
PuttheQbackinLGBTQ+
it’s not pride month but i will reblog the SHIT out of this any time. queer pride babeyyyyy
we’re here, we’re queer, and too confused to pick one of those other labels so you better fucking get used to us because we’re not gonna get less messy, bitches.
I truly love how queer can mean “Eh I’m some flavour of Not-Cishet but I don’t care to know the specifics beyond that” but also “I absolutely do know the specifics but we will be here all damn day if we get into it” and like. Everything in between. I think that’s incredibly powerful of us tbh.
Also “I know damn well the specifics but FUCK YOU for assuming you’re entitled to them when it’s none of your damn business (especially if you want to know so you can judge the validity of my identity according to your personal tastes)”
also “the specifics have been known to change on me and I cannot be bothered to keep anybody else updated when they do”
““Queer” isn’t simply another word for being gay, lesbian, or bisexual. “Queer,” as I am defining it here, represents a continuum of possibilities outside of what are considered to be normal sexual or gender identities and behaviors. Affirmation of queerness creates possibility outside the norm. My good friend and comrade Jessica Byrd once remarked that it was in queerness that she felt the world had endless possibilities. And in more ways than one, blackness is inherently queer.”
(this is such a light and positive way to think of being queer, as an endlessness of possibilities. and then connecting it back to Blackness? i just had to share!)
the reason bisexual and nonbinary people get so much hate is because we challenge the idea that people can be separated into little boxes to stop them from mixing with and “corrupting” the others. doesn’t matter which bathroom i use, if they’re marked with a binary gender then i’m gonna be in there with people who aren’t my gender. doesn’t matter who i date (or don’t), there’s always the potential that i could date someone with a gender different from previous partners. we are living breathing proof that any attempt to contain human gender & sexuality is doomed to failure and i think that’s very sexy of us
someone made the extremely valid point in the tags that this also applies to pan people, agender people, and aroace people, which it absolutely does. what’s up my pals, let’s be queer and do crimes destroy the cisheteropatriarchy together
hello yes this is an excellent example of what ‘queer’ actually means and why it’s important. queer means ‘does not fit your standard boxes, society, whatcha gonna do about it?’
Not queer as in gay but queer is in a political movement against heteronormativity, amatonormativity, cisnormativity, ideals of parenthood with a single long term partner as ‘THE natural part of life that everyone wants’
Queer as in sex ed for kids and the elderly, queer as in free condoms in old folks homes, queer as in destigmatize STIs and stop calling them dirty, queer as in pro-sex workers and decriminalization
Queer as in decolonisation, prison and police reform/abolition, as in education reform, as in medical reform, as in harm reduction clinics, as in not only more women’s shelters but also men’s shelters and gender-neutral shelters
Queer as in anti-racist, anti-fascist, anti-transphobia, anti-queerphobia, anti-intersexism, anti-aphobia, anti-fatphobia, anti-islamophobia, and anti-antisemitism
Queer as in “yeah my gender IS sparkly blue and my sexuality is one you’ve never heard of and that’s okay”
Not queer as in gay, but queer as in rallying call
Queer as in I Have The Right To Be.
Queer as in anti-ableism, pro-neurodiversity, destigmatize seeking mental health care and asking for help in general
