If you're a transgender teen and you're reading this, whether you're out and proud or still in the closet, certain or questioning, align your gender within a binary or the stars, you deserve to have a safe space to exist and explore your identity. I know the world is scary right now, but there are bright shining beacons of light to look towards in the thousands of us fighting alongside you to show you its not too late, it'll never be too late for you. You deserve to live and be your true, authentic self and transition in any way you deem fit.
Please don't give up yet. It can always get better.
A blankqueer label // stance for queers who are too old for this shit. It believes that queer // mogai discourse and infighting is stupid and harmful to the community at large and that as long as you aren't harming anyone do whatever the hell you want. One doesn't have to be a specific age to ID with this term, just share the general sentiment. The emoji code is 『 🪻💚 』
✿ Stances ✿
What Old Queer Is ::
Pro MOGAI // Xenogender // Microlabels
Pro Mspec // Contradictory labels
Pro Queer Education and Research
Pro going outside and becoming active in your irl community
Pro Recovery Paraphilia // Anti-Contact harmful paraphilia
Pro Kink at Pride
Pro Reclamation of slurs
Against the idea of Cluster Abuse ( NPD abuse, BPD abuse, etc)
Anti-Harassment, live and let live.
Pro fucking with bigots for fun
Pro harm reduction
Pro Therian // Otherkin // Alterhuman // Transspecies
What Old Queer is neutral on ::
Endogenic // Non-traumagenic Systems
TransID
What Old Queer isn't ::
Pro Radqueer
Pro Xenosatanist
TERFs // TIRFs // Gender Crit // Gatekeeping
Exclusionary
Minors in kink // NSFW spaces
Tagging :: @radiomogai @io-archival @redacted-coiner @genderdenied @mimiscoiningcafe
@discrophy @dsm--v @kiruliom
Simplified flag + color meanings below the cut!
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✿ Design Meanings ✿
Shades of purple and blue-green because the colors purple and green are some of the oldest colors to represent the queer community
Yellow lines to represent queer joy
White to represent unity
Violets because, once more, it is one of the oldest queer symbols we have. While violets originally held a meaning for sapphic love, here it is to represent educating yourself further on queer history to understand your community better.
The lacy top and bottom lines to give it kind of a "grandmas lace" feel, making it feel older!
Re-taping today… Made a short video I’m considering posting for the butch/masc/enby folks that are learning to tape. *There are many ways to tape depending on your goal and your chest size so I’ll make a couple more videos if there is a need.
Technically, I do “wear” the chest tape so it fits with this blog theme 😏 I also thought it necessary context when it comes to the outfits I post. The open shirt style is something I’ve grown to love and find power in. I’ve struggled with body dysmorphia most of my life due to weight issues and the expectations of others. From chubby baby to skinny kid to chubby teenager to the yo-yo adult that can’t get comfortable in their own skin, I tried everything to fit in and look the way other people wanted me to look.
Even when I came out at 21, I stayed in the Femme box that was more palatable for the public for over 7 years. When I moved away from the stifling state I call “home” I found myself surrounded by diversity and much more free to explore my aesthetic and my queer inner self. I slowly accepted that what I wanted to look like was more important. I cut my hair… traded “boy short” underwear for boxer briefs… started replacing my wardrobe a piece or two at a time. Cultivating my own butchness with intention.
I still do this today. I look for new styles that I can try or put my own spin on. “Age appropriate” is something I consider very loosely since everyone matures and ages a bit differently but for myself, I want to avoid looking like I’m “trying to look young” and outfits that make me “look old.”
I struggled through learning on my own with no elder queer to help me or even provide representation. Learning on my own is not an unfamiliar experience, however, it has brought more awareness to what I can offer our community. My DM’s are always open to genuine questions. Respectfully asked questions will not offend me.
part of being an older queer person is watching the clumsy queer steps artists took to support us or dip their own toe into the pool being called phobic and cruel and evil when they meant so much to you in your youth and kept you going and alive and safe and exploring
we were just figuring things out the best way we knew with the tools and language we had available to us at the time
Y'all, I'm chilling on my couch, retwisting my hair and listening to music. Two of my dogs are sleeping soundly beside me. I am comfortable, happy, and so fucking in Love with my Life and mySelf. Realizing that I have grown into a person that child-me would have imprinted on and used as a personality archetype is such a nice, peaceful feeling. I am who I want to be(lol except for not being a 6'4" burly fancyman) and that's so fucking awesome.
