Every time I see someone reblog my posts and tag them ‘q slur’ I feel pain.
I get it: you wanna make your followers comfortable. But did you think about me? How do you think I feel about my identity being called a slur every single day? As if I am something dangerous, traumatic or nsfw just by existing as queer?
I know you don’t think you’re doing harm, but I can feel the hurt, they’re little needles in my queer heart every single day. I’m tired of it.
I am QUEER. That is non-negotiable. That is where my strength comes from and my rage and my joy. No other term is ever going to describe who I am like ‘queer’. No other term is ever going to be my home like ‘queer’.
And I refuse to let my home get called a slur every single day when I know the strongest voices behind the ‘queer is a slur’ campaign don’t give a shit about triggers. they’re transphobes and aphobes and biphobes trying to crush to spaces where people can exist without clear labels. They’re the people that want to make my queerness disappear.
I am Queer. That is my soul. That is my rebellion. That is my solidarity. No ‘gay’ or ‘bi’ or ‘transgender’ label could set my heart aflame like that, could set me free like that, could give me the courage to walk through walls like that. Queer is why I am still here, alive.
Queer is my every breath.
If you don’t respect my identity, why reblog my posts?
If you won’t let me be queer without putting ‘slur’ on who I am, just stop reblogging my posts, okay?
purplespacecats replied: Also like.. people can just blacklist the word queer???? If you have “q slur” but not “queer” blacklisted, what even???? What purpose does tagging things as “q slur” even serve?? It’s misguided at best and sanctimonious condescension more often than not.
YES.
florafawner: I always thought this. How weird would it be if I tagged gay things with g slur? Most of us have heard gay being used as a slur wayyyyyyyy more than queer, so it’d only make sense! But it doesn’t make sense.
Exactly.
QueerAnarchism 