queeranarchism:

queeranarchism:

queeranarchism:

The big difference between liberal LGBT identity politics and revolutionary queer politics is:

That the goal of liberal LGBT identity politics is to present four (or 5, 6, 7, depending on the acronym) clearly defined LGBT identities with an easily digestable narrative to them to so that LGBT people may be understood, incorporated into societies notions of normalcy and turned into respectable citizens under capitalism. 

While the goal of revolutionary queer politics is to complicate identity, to defy definition, to disrupt clear narratives, to continue to be confusing and paradoxical, so that queer people can not be incorporated or turned into respectable citizens and can continue on their struggle to destroy normalcy and respectability, which is a struggle that connects us to all struggles against oppression. 

If we seem blatantly sexual or grotesquely unfuckable, if we make polite company uncomfortable, if we seem self-contradicting, if we wear slurs like badges of honor, if we’re bad rolemodels, if we seem weird or dangerous, that’s the point. 

Facelessagain replied: what’s the end game?

The end game of queer struggle is achieving full sexual, romantic and gender freedom that allows all of our sexualities and genders to be as complex and contradictory and wild and fluid as we want without ever having to explain it. The end game of queer struggle is also the end to all the other things that hold us down, like racism, ableism and capitalism.

On a more personal right-here-right-now level the endgame of queer struggle is holding on to all the possibilities we discovered when we started questioning heteronormativity and cisnormativity and resisting the pressure to again be limited by the confines of what is acceptable. To go from questioning our gender to questioning all the binaries that confine us and the authorities that enforce them.

And when we find new fantastic ways of loving and fucking and living, the end game is to do so together with the other oppressed and marganilized people in this world. So that when we rise to create a better juster world we do not rise from the oppressed, leaving others behind because their oppression has another name, instead we rise together with all the oppressed, creating justice for all.

To long did not read:

Liberal LGBT politics end goal is to rise from the ranks of the oppressed and be seen as normal so LGBT people can have the same lives those in places of power and privilige are having.

Radical queer politics end goal is to rise with all the oppressed, abolish all forms of oppression and abolish the concept of normalcy so everyone can live any way they want to without facing poverty and other forms of violence.