leproblematique:

dasbaron35:

ladyshinga:

atalantapendrag:

I am so fucking angry right now.

Today on Twitter I have seen several tweets about the accounts of people who identify as queer being suspended for posts where they talk about being queer…

For “using a slur”.

This was absolutely forseeable. This is 100% what “just so you know, IT’S A SLUR” aimed at people using the word queer to describe themselves and their activism was leading to.

I’ve seen “gay” used as an insult in my life WAY MORE OFTEN and YET

Worse, there’s reason to believe that these Twitter accounts were suspended because alt-righters and Nazis reported them for using “queer” as a way of getting revenge for all the Nazi accounts that have been suspended lately.

What did I keep warning about? What did I keep saying? That if we keep ‘problematizing’ words that living, breathing LGBTQ+ people use to describe ourselves and our reality, we’d end up where they would be used against us by precisely the individuals who hate us the most. Something that would have never happened had a term’s reclaimed status been respected, instead of people constantly screaming that it’s a slur, in any and all situations.