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variousqueerthings · 4 months ago

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i do sometimes think about community histories that come from similar spaces, especially pre-certain-words-being coined, and while i do understand the drive to go "no you [x identity] go away, this one is for us!" because often certain queer communities are woefully ignored and talked over, i also have an instinct for wanting to bring communities together because they were often one and the same community, or the words were conflated in certain ways and there's almost never a "this one is for us" that is as neat as people like to pretend (flashbacks to "butch and femme are lesbian-only terms" although ofc sometimes it really is importantly a closed community term, like the word "stud")

sometimes historically you cannot neatly map a label onto a person/group/event/idea because that terminology was different, and we cannot go back and ask what would work best using today's terminology anymore than we can travel to the future to see what it'll evolve into that might work better than today, but also maybe it's important to find some middle-point between a lack of clear terminology and community spaces that are divided into their own, clear sections

but in order for people to not feel overlooked and mocked the work needs to be done from all facets of the queer community to go outside ones own personal identity to make a history queer rather than "just" [insert x here]. and i hope that one day that work will make us more unified as a series of political and philosophical ideals and less disparate groups without bleed-through or overlap, even when one personally may feel quite easily placed within an identity

idk, it's the idea of "personal identity" vs "political coalition" but it's also just quite sad to try and box us in again

#there's a lot within this... thinking about anne lister's rainbow plaque being protested because it included the word *genderqueer*#as well as lesbian #thinking about words like *qpr* and how the ace and the aro community comes from many of the same community groups and ideas #and how ive been very happy for the word aspec to come into use because it also further broadens the Possibilities for the *A*#but also how aspec identities exist within all the other alphabet letters (especially visibly bisexual histories)#thinking about how the trans community cannot continue to ignore intersex history and our part in perpetuating marginalisation #but also how intersex and trans history has often been the same history and cannot be called neatly one or the other #and what this means for our potential futures as visibly othered bodies. what that common ground needs in order to exist #thinking about how so many of us with perhaps clearer distinctions today #would have been in very different community spaces in the past (the likelihood that i might have been a lesbian is one i think about a lot)#(despite my attractions mapping more neatly along queer men aesthetically)#(but also thinking about people like zinaida gippius or dora carrington... for me personally... but also lou sullivan... it ain't that easy #queer stuff #queer history #queer community #queer coalition #queer solidarity #queer politics #queer rights

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