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Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.
And faster to pronounce if you are talking instead of writing.
It’s not more inclusive, and if your excuse of using a slur as a blanket term is “it’s faster to say”, GENUINELY what is wrong with you
It’s called economía del lenguaje.
It’s also the respected academic term?? The acronym isn’t static and it’s usage is varied by things like generational difference, location, and knowledge of the community. Even just in the U.S. in the last few decades the common usage gone from GLBT to LGBT to LGBTQ, to LGBTQA/LGBTQIA/LGBTQIAP/etc (Which, let me tell you as someone who has given presentations in the past using these updated acronyms, are all real mouthfulls), to LGBT+.
Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didn’t always use or identify with the terms we use now and you can’t always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.
Like yeah if you’re talking specifically about gay or trans people you can just say gay or transgender, but if you’re talking about more than one identity or someone who doesn’t conform to our perceptions of ‘LGBT,’ or a person or people whose identity you don’t know, queer is just the better word.
“That’s SO gay”, “Oh my god, you’re not a LESBIAN, are you?”
Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I don’t get mine? What makes you so special?
I’m here, I’m queer, go fuck yourself.
queer is not a slur, stop drinking the TERF koolaid
every time one of you fools spout about ‘queer is a slur’ a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that word ‘taboo’ is fucking working you dipshit.
I did not get my degree in queer literature for you all to keep pulling this bullshit.
baby gays,,,, i beg of you to learn your queer history and stop listening to terf bullshit
every single one of our labels has been used as a slur against us.
terfs and -phobes are always going to try and hurt us with what we identify as. but the fact remains these are OUR labels and always have been.
we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.
I don’t know if this is just because I’m not American but I’ve never heard queer used as a slur. Ever. Meanwhile gay was the insult in the 2000s here. Everything you didn’t like was ‘soo gay’. Queer wasn’t even a word most of us knew back then.
It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.
The reason people are upset about the word queer is that it’s a unifying term. You can say you’re queer and all people will know is that you’re part of the community. But you can’t say you’re LGBT, you have to say you’re gay or trans or ace. They don’t want you to be ambiguously queer. They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.
yeah in the 90s and early 2000s kids would call each other “gay” as an insult. But no one ties themselves in knots over whether “gay” is a slur. So yeah, please ffs learn your history.
They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.
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Conditions in Gaza are worsening daily due to the food shortage. According to Al Jazeera, as of August 17th, 263 people have died of starvation — nearly half of which children, due to Israel’s 22 month blockade of Gaza and constant violence against its people.
I honestly think that the numbers are higher, it’s just impossible to report and track every death due to the collapsed infrastructure in the strip.
Amongst the people currently suffering in Gaza are Nader and his family. Please consider donating to their fundraiser for food, housing, and other expenses. Donate here.
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Male Scifi and Fantasy writers: Look at this !Strong! female character! She can fight and solve puzzles, and ends up with the sidekick not the hero! Isn’t she a great character?
Everyone:No, she’s one-dimensional and still only exists to please the hero’s ego
Male scifi and fantasy writers:You’re never happy! This is how characters are written! Besides, it’s much harder for us to write women because we are men!
Terry Pratchett: *creates a female character who is literally the embodyment of a dog, sets her up to be the love interest of Protagonist Hero Man.* *writes her as clever, emotionally tortured, lonely and powerful* *uses her to explore difficulties of bisexuality and masculine dominated workforces*
Terry Pratchett: *Creates a pair of old witches, one of whom is a virgin and the other who has slept with lots of men.* *makes them best friends, never dismisses one lifestyle of the other, explains lifestyle choices based on characters history and personality, uses this to develop each character as the books progress*
Terry Pratchett: *Writes Sybil Rankin* *makes the powerful rich lady heavy set but beautiful, never plays her by her looks, develops her as she ages, acknowledges the way society views such people and then spits on their attitudes* *does it again with Agnes*
Terry Pratchett: *Writes a book about an entire army secretly being women, creates complex female relationships, introduces same sex relationships completely naturally*
Terry Pratchett: *takes old joke about female dwarves and uses it to explore gender identity without making it seem forced or unnatural, carefully discusses some of the issues and complextities whilst still making funny and witty observasions and maintaining genuine fantasy tropes*
Terry Pratchett: *DOES THIS ALL OVER AND OVER AGAIN, DEVELOPING CHARACTERS AS HIS VIEW OF THE WORLD DEVELOPS AND CAREFULLY APOLOGIZES FOR EARLY MISTAKES*
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fill your body with cranberries so the horse that kills you gets a sensual surprise when he begins to feed
i will give the horse that kills me no such luxury
The rooster and the little chick that follows it around everywhere
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Knight falling out of Love
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inspiration: “Miri it is while sumer ilast with fugheles song, oc nu neheth windes blast and weder strong” This is part of this amazing rendition by Ensemble belladonna, Susanne Ansorg & Miriam Andersén. It’s an old lament for how short and sweet summer is – I also like to read it as lament for romantic love, and the disappointments in it. Lempo is an old Finnish god – often depicted as a malevolent spirit and later with Christianity connected with Satan. There’s reason to believe that Lempo was actually also a god of love – although the depictions in details vary a lot. Sometimes love could turn into devilish Lempo inside a person, or that love itself is unpredictable, violent, and somewhat scary like Lempo.
Arrow: Wreg is pulling out an arrow out of his chest – often spirits/gods of love are depicted to have some sort of hunting equipment. Cupid famously, but some texts suggest Lempo also having arrows (evil ones lol – I wonder how much of the demonization is due to Christian mysticism of old religion). Wounds: Only one is clearly visible, but Wreg actually has two fresh ones and three fading scars around his ribs. As a man who loves love and gives his affections freely, I thought he’d also be expert in feelings of disappointment. Especially as a queer guy, who falls in love often with people who’ll never know of his affections. It’s up him alone to tend to wounds no one even knew where there in the first place. It’s also up to him pull the arrows out himself, no one else can help him. Leaves: Those are broadleaf plantain! They are commonly known to be used for treating various ailments, but especially wounds. In the zoom it’s more visible, but they are stained with blood, or rather that the wounds they are covering are bleeding through the delicate leaves.
Hunting horn: In media and religion love is often depicted with theme around hunter and prey, and the person falling in love being completely lacking agency and power to do anything about it. Here I wanted to include a detail that twist that narrative a little. There’s an element of powerlessness yes, Wreg is clearly in pain – HOWEVER he is the one holding a hunting horn. He himself willingly calls shots on himself, willingly takes the arrows, and willingly takes them out and heals then wounds when the time comes. He’s a man who wants to love, even if that means suffering and pain. codpiece: idk I really like codpieces
i think u should always give characters more body hair just because. its good for the health its good for the everything
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