lines-and-edges:

autistic-luxray:

i’m

HERE

and i’m

QUEER

and

IT’S MUCH EASIER TO SAY I’M QUEER THAN TO LIST OUT MY ENTIRE FUCKING IDENTITY

Simple post, simple point, and it illustrates something about anti-queer discourse that I think many exclusionists are missing. Because… even if no complex microlabels existed, even if no one was demi-anything, it’s still less complicated to introduce yourself this way than to declare, for example, “I’m trans and also gay.”

People with multiple labels, even when those labels are included in an acronym, have to do additional emotional labor when the word ‘queer’ is banned.

(I don’t mean just formulating a slightly longer sentence; TERFs and transphobes also specifically hate being reminded that gay trans people exist, and so there’s additional vulnerability attached to that conversation.)

And not wanting to use the word for yourself is fine – but demanding extra work and vulnerability from marginalized people is not.

trekmemes:

thesylverlining:

audible-smiles:

subspacecommunication:

I live for agender Odo (from Star Trek Waypoint, 2017).

I looked it up and this is Kira going “I can’t do this mother/daughter pilgrimage thing because my mom died during the occupation”, and then everyone’s immediately like “I’LL BE YOUR SYMBOLIC MOM” I’m crying??? and need to read Star Trek comics maybe??????????

a family can be *squints; counts* 8 moms of varying race, gender, and solidity, and their symbolic daughter

Kira, gesturing at all her friends on DS9: