So I made a thing.
Are you tired of justifying, arguing, defending or explaining your identity – or your right to belong in the LGBT+ community – to gatekeepers or exclusionary radfems? Don’t waste your time or energy on people who don’t care. We don’t owe anyone an explanation or a defence.
Queer was successfully reclaimed in the 1980s and 90s and entered into use within academia as a term for anyone whose identities fall outside of societal norms (on the basis of their sexual or romantic orientation, or gender identity, with some intersex people also claiming it as well.)
We’re here. We’re queer. We belong. …End of debate.
Do you identify as queer? Then welcome to the queer community. We, your fellow self-identified queers, accept you unconditionally. You don’t have to explain yourself any further. Want some cake or some tasty garlic bread?
Right?! I literally JUST stumbled across an essay – FROM 2013, as in, recent – that described a lot of the things bi people do to be accepted as valid community members. It sounded exactly like all the acrobatics that aces go through.
