to be honest i think queer people should care less about other peoples identities and care more about making our community a home again
what another person identifies with and the details of their complex relationship to their identity are literally none of ur business. u will never know the full extent of someones identity. u will never know the full complexity of a persons identity that is not ur own. so much hate and fighting happens in our community bc people often care more about being the most correct about identities instead of showing compassion to members of our queer family. no matter what, all of us are oppressed by the same oppressors for being queer. people are so quick to be cruel about identities they dont understand. mind ur own identity and let others explore theirs as they see fit (obviously so long as it isnt directly harming people)
So it was a white woman who killed Botham Jean, and a white woman who killed Dante Wright, and it’s been white women at the center of almost every video of someone unjustly calling the police on black people, and it’s white women who have been directly or indirectly responsible for many horrific massacres of black peoples across the US like the one in Wilmington and the famous Tulsa massacre, and it’s white women who have a deep history of weaponizing their white womanhood by falsely accusing black men of rape even so much as to accuse black children like emmet till which resulted in the entire civil rights movement, and white women who constructed the idea of preserving the confederacy, and it’s white women who have gained freedom by steeping on the backs of black women, and white women who have fought to preserve the racist ideals of the 50s Nuclear family, and the list goes on and on and on and on.
So are we ready to talk about how white women are not incidental participants in white supremacy but rather the architectures and safe-guards of it?
One thing I noticed after listening to hours of dragon age banter is that so many conversations start with Person A posing a question to Person B, but the question has no subject like B is just supposed to know what A is talking about right off the bat.
So instead of: Person A: why do you keep slapping your nuts?
It’s like: Person A: you keep slapping them. Person B: slapping what? Person A: your nuts. why?
Regular reminder that “faking it” is a conscious decision and that self doubt is hard to fight past but definitely possible.
If you think you’re faking it, you’re not! No one accidentally fakes being disabled/mentally ill/developmentally disabled/trans/nonbinary/queer/poor etc.
AND NO ONE WHO DOUBTS YOU SHOULD BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AS THEY ARE AN ASSHOLE!
could u imagine if ppl talked about catholicism the same way they talked about like… indigenous ppl’s religions….
girl in horror movie holding a bible open: “according to legend, a mob tortured a half-man, half-god, and nailed him to a wooden cross, leaving him to starve to death. But days later, on this very night, they found he had clawed his way out of the grave. Now those who believe lie in wait for him to rise again, To honour him, they have weekly gatherings where they chant and sing, and at the end of it they eat his flesh and blood.”
girl’s friend: “wow.. thats so creepy…”
horror movie jock: “it’s only a myth, don’t worry”
