like, you want to use the q-slur for yourself? you have that power.
but pushing slurs as identifiers just makes it alright for everyone else to use them: aka for the people who were using them as slurs to continue to do so.
you don’t see the differently abled, or the neurodivergent, or the mentally ill communities push for reclamation of the r-slur. and yet, we keep seeing this for the lgbta+ community. Which, if it was just people experimenting with their own things would be fine, but it’s gotten to the point where academia (which is still very cis-het minded, like everywhere else) has adopted it.
how quickly people have adopted the use of these slurs i think speaks to how sinister this is. No one is actually fighting to use these, everyone's just accepting it so they can quietly continue using these as originally intended: as slurs, without anyone batting an eye.
just. what the fuck people. stop it. this is so gross and we’re teaching the next generations of kids that this shit is ok.


















