Our Queer Kid Experience

TERFs, facists, and all of the like can kindly fuck off

[our-queerkid-experience]

hi, im star/lucid(I go by either) I use they/she/any

This is a blog for queer kids(mainly teens)! Former queer teens, feel free to send in stuff about your years as a queer kid, or support/advice for us now

Share your story, vent, ask for advice, share advice, etc!

It’s always a tough time to be queer and a minor, but you aren’t alone, and this blog is here to remind you that. We are in it to together, mate.

this blog is inspired @our-queer-experience, @our-lesbian-experience, and all of the other lovely experience blogs out there. Also, a sibling blog of mine I recently met, @our-trans-youth-experience

Please do not tag this blog in any sort of donation posts.

[our-queerkid-experience]

my queer teen experience is planning my local queer prom and it is tomorrow!!!

[bugboibin]

Donate to Help Bug move to a safer home, organized by Robin Fick

Hi! It’s yo ghost, BugBoiBin! I was born and raised in a Fundamentalist Christian home, went … Robin Fick needs your support for Help Bug mo

Hi! It’s yo ghost, BugBoiBin! I was born and raised in a Fundamentalist Christian home, went to a fundamentalist private school, and was all around extremely sheltered as a kid. Despite this background, I have always know that I am trans-nonbinary, just have never had the words to express that until recently. I moved out of my parents house a few years ago, and have slowly allowed myself to explore and learn these “forbidden” things I was taught to hate and despise my entire life. I only just learned what the actual theory of Evolution is less than a year ago, something that would have landed me in serious hot water if my parents knew while I was still in their house.

While I am no longer live in my parents house, I am still nearby, work in the town they live in, and, for that reason, am still closeted. I desperately want to be free to be me, cut my hair how I want, dress in the clothes I love, and finally start to transition, but I can’t do that here safely. I don’t know what my dad will do if I did try to transition; I don’t feel the safest around him, especially with his anger issues. Additionally, the midwest in general is not the best for trans people, let alone those that identify as nonbinary.

As such, I’m trying to move to Washington state! I’ve been there before, the weather is nicer (I work outside all day, so that’s a big deal), the people are more accepting, and the state itself has more protections for transgender individuals.

Moving isn’t cheap, however, so I was hoping for a little help? Any bit counts. I can send cat pics, I’m not much of an artist but I can sketch something, and I can try to make animal crossing designs if you send some inspo pics!

I’m really scared right now with everything going on, and have had my dreams crushed a few too many times at this point. I’m looking for some help, a big break so I can start fresh.

Please help.

Hi, I started this fundraiser, Help Bug move to a safer home, on GoFundMe and it would mean a lot to me if you’d be able to share or donate to it. https://gofund.me/e57a63143

@daysleftofsecondterm @keferon @kyri45 @madamadamiu @transmasc-advice-blog @transingthoseformers @trans-truthwatcher @archie-sunshine @zeropro @bonus-links @ezdotjpg @zorangezest @our-queerkid-experience @our-queer-autistic-experience @makingqueerhistory @memeuplift @benaffleckprivatehandle @important-cat-pics @danaterrace @transgender

[dearreader-archive]

we have to remove capitalism and consumerism from queerness. i remember seeing someone on tiktok say “gay people wear silver jewelry, straight people wear gold.” only to have a POC stitch it and say “mackenzie, some of us are minorities.”

and i truly don’t know how young gays lost the plot this much. what do you mean you think being gay has a style and aesthetic and personality? why do you think you can tell a person sexuality based on how they look?

[whereispearlescentmoon]

Draw them fatter and hairier now. Yes whoever you’re thinking of. Do it.

[whereispearlescentmoon]

Draw them fatter and hairier now. Yes whoever you’re thinking of. Do it.

[whereispearlescentmoon]

Draw them fatter and hairier now. Yes whoever you’re thinking of. Do it.

[our-queerkid-experience]

I know this blog isn’t very active (honestly I don’t usually know what to say when not prompted) but I’m back with another recommendation.

Watch Falsettos. You can find it for free on YouTube. It means so much to me to see it, for various reasons, but (spoilers for the second act) how it talks about the AIDs crisis and shows queer history is so important to me. Please check it out. It’s incredible

[our-queer-experience]

(anonymous because im really embarrassed.)

heyyy. so im on the younger side of teenagers, and i'm also a guy. have been my whole life, identify as one, have a penis, all of it. but a little while back i woke up with blood in my sheets.

i told my parents and we went to the hospital because we thought i might have some kind of internal bleeding problem or a uti, but it turns out that my whole life i've had underdeveloped but still functional ovaries, and that i'm menstruating. i've found a few stories online of similar stuff happening. apparently i'm intersex. and nobody knew. so i'm just a guy who's gonna have a period his whole life now.

idk what to do, i can't tell anyone, i want to keep this a secret for the rest of my life but i don't know how. i know someone i dont want to find out is eventually gonna find out. i'm 14 in going into 9th grade. at my school 9th grade is still in middle school. and you know middle schoolers are vultures.

any advice of how to do this?

alright. first thing you’re gonna wanna do is get familiar and comfortable with pads. boxers arent the best for this but idk your genitals and what would be most comfortable, so try those boxers for trans men that are meant for pads? its been a bit since i got this ask, so maybe youve tried that, but if not… ik how it can be.

and yeah, middle schoolers suck. they suck really badly. you can tell whoever you want whenever you want, even if that means never.

your body is changing! and its scary! definitely check out orgs like @interactyouth, because you are not as alone as you might feel.

and if you ever need to talk about your situation in ways you cant irl, there are a lot of emerging online spaces for intersex youth and you will figure yourself out with time. im sorry this took me so long to answer, i know it’s a bit time sensitive, and i’m not the best with these kinds of things but i am always here 🫂

[our-queerkid-experience]

i’ve tried to find a name that fits for uhh… 6 years now? XD and nothing has stuck. i feel like i will always be my deadname, but id like to have a new fresh start! I heard the name suggestions thing and i just wanted to ask if you had any thoughts :P

hi! Okay so I saw on your blog you were probably looking for masc names. No specified themes so I’m going to put a couple general ones and some from some themes of things I like for names :]

Rowan, Ezra, Elliot or Elijah(potentially with the nickname El or Eli)

Orion, Aster, Theo,/Theodore, Esper, Teras, Aspen, Zephyr, Corey/Coren, Brook/Brooks, Casper or Caspian or something with nickname of Cas, Will(either as its own name or as a nickname for something)

If you see things in some of they you like, but aren’t settling on any, lmk and we can do a second round looking more into names involving the stuff you liked from this batch :]

[our-queer-autistic-experience]

Hey :)

A bit about me:

Call me anything

Pronouns: they/them

I am a queer autistic individual who wants to make a friendly space for similar people. 

About this blog: 

Statistically autistic people are more likely to identify as LGBTQ+. However, being queer and autistic often comes with its own unique experiences and challenges. This blog is a safe space for queer autistic people and allies to share personal experiences, ask questions, exchange useful information and find a community. 

This page is suitable for under 18s. 

Feel free to submit anything to my ask box, I will try my best to answer or just listen to whatever you want to say. 

This blog is inspired by all the other queer experience blogs out there, including

@our-queer-experience @our-transgender-experiences @our-trans-youth-experience @our-trans-punk-experience

and all similar blogs

Stay safe y’all <3

[our-queer-experience]

ok yes all of you can reblog posts about how much you love trans women and see them as women and then you can bash on everyone who bought harry potter merch and thats all great but lets do something to help today. maybe. idk

[daisyprayers]

"Kids are smart. Or, more often than not, kids are as smart as you allow them to be. They will scream and run in circles for fun, absolutely, but if you provide them with a structured game that requires skill they may enter it with equal fervor. So when a group of suits that don't care about people lazily throw a budget at something stupid and loud that signifies that it's entertainment without actually having anyone care about what it is, that's not making a story for kids, that's exploiting them. It's using their naivety so that adults can make money without doing anything. […] Kids like good movies. They also like bad movies, but they're kids! We're adults, it's our responsibility to give them good art that's gonna last."

-CJ the X, Skipping The First 5 Minutes Of Tangled

[our-queerkid-experience]

Planning on making a little playlist for the blog. Filled with queer songs + songs that relate to being queer in some way/feel like the queer experience

if you have any you feel fit, please lmk!! Reblog or reply or send an ask about it

[our-queerkid-experience]

To queer adults and any kids who have been able to find it

Please please please send in asks on how to find community in our current state. I know it’s so essential to making it through this, but as minors, especially to those of us who can’t drive, it’s hard to do. How do we find those spaces? If they don’t exist, is there an easy way to create them? How can we discover that community?

[our-queerkid-experience]

I know it’s not typically something done on blogs like this, but I wanna keep it active and we’ve not got any asks at the moment, so

Name suggestions! I will do them, if anyone so wishes :] be as specific or general as you want. Examples of specifics you could give are if you want it fem, masc, andro, if you want a certain letter, a certain syllable count, or a theme of some sort! Obviously you don’t have to do that much, whatever you think feels right.

I’ll make a list of a some I think fit within what you asked for!

I know changing your name is a big step for a lot of queer kids out there. I want to make that process easier for anyone who’d like some help settling on something

[intervexual]

There's now an Intersex Wiki! 🎉

So I got tired of the Sisyphean task of trying to make existing wikis like Wikipedia more informative about intersex. I also was feeling that there isn't really one central place for intersex content to get archived, especially if Tumblr goes down. It felt like it was time that we the intersex community had our own wiki.

And, it's live! You can find it at intersex.wiki!

It's still very young and under development, but we just passed the 100 article mark 🥳 and I thought I'd share! Here's our glossary page as a starting point:

Glossary

This glossary is intended to give an overview of common terms used within the intersex community.

It would be really lovely to get some more regular contributors to the wiki! If you have anything you'd like documented about your intersex variation, knowledge about intersex history, local intersex organizations, or intersex representation, it'd be appreciated! 💜

I've been mostly focusing on growing the number of articles, and which means that the main article on Intersex could really use some expansion and refinement. 💜

Proofreading is also appreciated. 💜

Please note that:

You will need to make an account and confirm your email before making any edits, because there is an intense amount of spam/vandalism directed at the wiki (sigh)

You must thoroughly cite all your sources. You can cite Wikipedia. You can cite Tumblr posts. You can even cite your own Tumblr posts. But you must cite your sources. This is an encyclopedia and others need to be able to verify the provenance of your arguments. We use Chicago-style citation.

Wiki content must have educational relevance to the intersex community, and also must be safe for work.

Note: we have a ban on biographies of living individuals.

The threshold for inclusion of neologisms and flags in the Wiki is: "is this actually used outside of coining posts, glossaries, and wiki entries?" If you want to make an article on a neologism, there needs to be at least one citation demonstrating literally anybody using this term in a naturalistic manner.

Given the wiki is subject to a lot of spam/vandalism, the first few edits you make to the wiki will be sent to a moderation queue and will need to be manually approved. Once you've demonstrated you're not a spammer, that you can cite sources, and not create articles that are outside the scope of the wiki, you'll be added to the list of users whose edits are automoderated.

If you have any difficulty in editing the wiki or getting started, or just wanna talk about the wiki, we have a Discord: https://discord.gg/BBvGUBWqnR

If you have any questions let me know! 💜