also going to be seriously mourning the loss of a place that has been a major engine of LGBT and feminist and creative thought for the past 5-10 years. Yeah, there was a lot of garbage theory like anti culture, toxic discourse, and “queer is a slur” that I’ll be glad to see die with the platform. People on twitter are already making “what’s the wildest thing you ever saw on tumblr?” threads. But if you wanted to put a finger on the heartbeat of queer culture online, where would you go? Autostraddle? Twitter? Instagram? No— you’d come here, and I have to say, losing that community hurts. Fandom has always had to migrate, but I can’t remember this happening to an online queer community in this way. Other people have touched on the nipple rule being misogynistic, but the phrasing “female-presenting nipples” is designed to target and pathologize trans people. I’m livid that two prominent trans male voices I’ve been following for over a decade— @roachpatrol and @pervocracy— have been deleted already. I’m going to miss you all; we deserved a lot better than this.
