I am sick of debating who ‘fits the labels’ or who ‘has historically been a part of the movement’. These things do not matter to me at all. My queer community carries a ‘refugees welcome’ flag and will always have a place for people whose struggles are different from mine but who benefit from the shelters I’ve helped build. We are most menacing, most magical, most disruptive as a queer movement when we have no borders.
I’m not here to comment on the actual point of this post but am I the only one uncomfortable with the use of “refugees” and “borders” here? like something about the use of racialized issues seems? inappropriate?
It was a very deliberate (not at all subtle) choice to make readers question why solidarity is so logical to them in one context and not in another.
