#mogai+

[themaveriqueagenda]

[luxiomahariel]

i just discovered this gorgeous progress flag design by FlailingSpade and was inspired to build upon it

the colorblind and photosensitive friendly color scheme comes from the star of david progress flag by dykeboytism

both of these flags will be placed under the read more just in case either link ends up not working

id like to think of this as the sunrise progress flag : >

[squidfreak]

DON'T PUT YOUR TRIGGERS AND/OR PHOBIAS IN YOUR WEBSITES/PINNED POSTS/BIOS/ETC. FOR EVERYONE ON THE INTERNET TO SEE. ONLY TRUSTED PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW THAT INFORMATION, NOT THE WHOLE INTERNET. YOU WILL GET HURT!!! MEAN PEOPLE WILL USE IT AGAINST YOU!!!

[this-is-varsexism-transphobia]

"I don't like to call myself this umbrella term, therefore this umbrella term is a form of oppression" is a surprisingly common narrative that doesn't make any sense.

Example:

"I am agender, but don't want to be called non-binary" - thats fine. You don't have to call yourself non-binary.

However, when you say "I am agender and I don't like to call myself non-binary. Therefore, being agender doesn't fall under the non-binary umbrella, and if you say it does, you are being bigoted" is completely illogical.

Agender is a lack of gender. The non-binary umbrella includes any gender (or lack thereof) that is not exclusively monogendered woman or monogendered man. Therefore, agender falls under the non-binary umbrella.

You do not have to identify as non-binary personally, but the umbrella term still includes agenderness because it fits under the definition of the umbrella.

Another example:

"I have PCOS, but don't want to be called intersex" - again, fine. But "I have PCOS, and I don't want to call myself intersex, therefore PCOS doesn't fall under the intersex umbrella" is illogical.

You can be uncomfortable with using an umbrella term label for yourself. But insisting that it's somehow oppressive that your identity/experience is categorized under an umbrella term doesn't make any sense.

[qaivan]

I hate that there's no room for nonbinary people in media. When a character's gender is "ambiguous" (neither seen as masculine nor feminine) and solely referred to with neutral terms such as "they/them" and person, individual, etc, people can't stand that. They can't stand the idea that a nonbinary person wouldn't want to be a boy or girl, isn't a boy or a girl. They have to be a girlthing or a boything (why are all nonbinary people things? Why is it never girlenby or boyenby?), they have to be transfem or transmasc. When they're put into relationships, they have to be either lesbian or gay. Nobody can be cenelian or enbian or diamoric or gai or strayt or trixic or toric. That doesn't exist.

I'm sick of it. I'm sick of seeing nonbinarity be shoved into category after category after category when the whole point of being nonbinary is that we want to opt out.

[this-is-neuropsych-ableism]

"Its illegal to be straight during pride month!"

"If you think hateful thoughts about yourself, and you're queer, that's queerphobic, and it's illegal to be queerphobic during pride month!"

How about we not make straight queers* feel guilty and paranoid about being "not queer enough" during pride month? (*Aspec straights, trans & gender diverse straights, intersex straights, lesbihets, turihets, m-specs straights, polyamorous hets, nonrose hets, etc, etc, etc?)

How about we not make people with internalized queerphobia feel guilty for intrusive thoughts?

How about we stop making a billion posts encouraging moral OCD during pride month?

[PT: How about we stop making a billion posts encouraging moral OCD during pride month? /End PT]

[b3ndy]

Kinda resent the whole idea of "ohh trans people are born that way" and "gay people are born that way" thing because like. Personally, at some point I WAS a little girl. I loved being feminine and was fine being a girl when I was still wee. But then something changed and now I prefer to present and be referred to and to Be masculine in some sense. And that's valid.

And like. Attraction changes throughout people's lives. The obvious one where people tend to be attracted to anyone their age or older and it shifts as they age but smaller things like preferences, and what they find attractive in a person too. Including gender or presentation.

We don't need to be Born a certain way to be valid or real. If you are something then you are something. The butterfly was a caterpillar at some point but it's a butterfly Now and that's what matters. Let's stop teaching people that they can only ever be one thing throughout their entire lives and remember people change sometimes.