a follower asked me to tag the q slur. I’m going to always respect my followers wishes when it comes to tagging posts, it’s a simple act i can take in order to allow my followers to feel comfortable with my blog and if they ever want to come talk to me.
I’m also not lgbtq, so my say on the discourse means absolutely nothing. all i can do is listen and amplify ideas and opinions of those who it affects.
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.
rip tumblr 