4 of the Militant 400 follower event - What's one critique you have of the mogai/liom community? Any piece of advice of how to fix it? What's one thing you enjoy about the mogai/liom community? Do you think it needs to be changed in any capacity?
Lack of diversity, definitely. The topic has come up a lot more in recent times in the community, with big blogs of the community starting to talk about it, but that it doesn't mean it needs to stop being said, y'know?
I've been in the community long enough to see its definitely made progress, as poc terms were basically nonexistent for the longest time—and so were poc from the community—and some terms are just straight up praising to ones vicinity of whiteness.
Honestly, it just goes back to the idea that queerness somehow erases your whiteness, and the privilege that comes with it and the ability to just, overlook everything that happens to make you uncomfortable that pertains to race. And the community regresses, real time, Because so many of you are afraid of confronting your own internal biases you carry around from your environment and end up clinging to them harder and pushing more people on the edges of the community because you'd rather stick to being a bigoted piece of shit.
This isn't an invitation to apologize for any overt or covert racism you've committed ever because no poc is going to care about your half-assed apology with no action behind it because you want to feel better about yourself and make up for what you did. What poc want is effort of change, and sometimes better than a couple of words is boosting the original message.
Actually ineract with things poc liomogaiers make, reblog because this is a reblog site! It's, like, the bare minimum of all the things out there. And before you say "But I don't relate to x", "I'm not x", "x isn't up my alley" and more similar, you're apart of what makes the community narrow. Just because you personally don't find attachment to it doesn't mean it hurts to share because others will find attachment to it, and sharing shows you're making space for those who are poc.
Saying that, I do genuinely love the liomogai community, I've been apart of it almost half my life and its helped me realize there's a lot of nuance in queerness. Its helped me realize my queerness doesn't have to be neat and easy to consume for others. That I don't have to be this one grey slate when I feel like four hundred tightly woven balls of yarn knotted together to vaguely resemble a lifeform. I think that's one thing liomogai has always been good at, at realizing you don't have to fit into this clean cut binary that cisheteronormativity pushes onto everyone out there. I have a lot more I can say, but I think I'm going to leave it at that.
If anyone reading this has hurt someone by being racist or something. You should be apologizing to who you hurt rather than all poc overall, because otherwise it's honestly just shallow and performative. Though, If you're apologizing with the sole intention and/or generally expecting of receiving some kind of forgiveness then don't apologize at all because no one owes forgiveness.
General you used here, not at anyone in specific.
Tagging - @radiomogai , @judasly , @averylonelycea , @marrow-coining
