Author: queeranarchism

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theroastedpoosqueery: queeranarchism: weiszklee: queeranarchism: Celebrating ugliness is always going to be more radically queer than widening beauty standards. Redefining beauty standards to include gender-nonconforming, body hair, fat, disability etc is all nice but ultimately it strives to include more people in the concept of beauty, but never all people. Some people will always be considered … Continue reading

weiszklee: queeranarchism: weiszklee: queeranarchism: Celebrating ugliness is always going to be more radically queer than widening beauty standards. Redefining beauty standards to include gender-nonconforming, body hair, fat, disability etc is all nice but ultimately it strives to include more people in the concept of beauty, but never all people. Some people will always be considered … Continue reading

Queerness ugly by default? No, absolutely not. I just said celebrating ugliness is a radical queer act.

Surely there are things in nature that you don’t find particularly beautiful. Shit maybe? Or rotting eggs? Or a dead bird decaying covered in flies? That’s all nature. Whatever your taste,if you look around you’ll find things in nature that you’ll find beautiful and things that you won’t find beautiful. Those might be useful, valuable … Continue reading You are talking about beauty as if the only version of beauty has to be societally constructed standard. But nature has beauty. Even an ugly person or a flower missing a petal has nature’s beauty. Plus, when you love someone with their ugliness and all, you are seeing their true beauty. It’s the life in us that is the most beautiful to me and that is not an excluding thing.

weiszklee: queeranarchism: Celebrating ugliness is always going to be more radically queer than widening beauty standards. Redefining beauty standards to include gender-nonconforming, body hair, fat, disability etc is all nice but ultimately it strives to include more people in the concept of beauty, but never all people. Some people will always be considered ugly in … Continue reading

True. But refusing to meet a standard is far more liberating than trying to meet a standard by expanding it.  Beauty or normalcy can only ever be the things that have been defined as beautiful. We can expand that to include pimples and fat and baldness and gender nonconformity but it will only ever be … Continue reading but ugliness still needs beauty to exist. if someone is ugly, it means there is a standard they do not meet.

Celebrating ugliness is always going to be more radically queer than widening beauty standards. Redefining beauty standards to include gender-nonconforming, body hair, fat, disability etc is all nice but ultimately it strives to include more people in the concept of beauty, but never all people. Some people will always be considered ugly in order for … Continue reading