#Queerphobia mention tw

[just-antithings]

There's this blog post that antis keep linking me to that they say "proves" their points. Here's the link if you want to look at it and give your thoughts. I personally find it very scary they think some subjects are completely off limits, regardless of context, even when the actions are done by the villain and portrayed as bad by the narrative?? By that metric, victims aren't even allowed to write about their own experiences. 

[fruit-kick]

transphobic parents love talking abt losing their child to transgenderism but dont realize the grief of losing a loving parent who helps with your projects and brings you little snacks to bigotry

[everyday-is-brighter-with-you]

Poem:

If I'm not dead before the end of my life, in or out I pray,

My gratitude to God; eternal

For only He will be there by my side

When all others desert

Or when the forms of fear unsheathe their claws upoun

The many suns, the flowers, the lovers and amateur writers of this world

Passion isn't a protection

I know full well and I do it still

Safety gives no great guarantee

I give my life up for other hands to feel upoun paperscript;

SO that you may see-

What we could not see

What I could not see

What they could not see

A rainbow's reflection, newly reborn

Searching around, through a great incomprehension, for kith and kin's soul.

This is how I wish my desire to always be.

[average25jifan]

no matter how bad life gets, I will never be miserable enough to see queerphobia, racism, and misogyny in everything I look at.

I will always be able to enjoy things.

[5typesoftrash]

if you are pro-censorship, you are not my ally. Not in feminism, not in queerness, not in anti-racism. Bad actors aren't going to just censor the things you don't like; they won't stop. Sure, they'll sweep over the explicit incest and pedophilia, but then, just like the fancop teenagers have, they will start stretching those definitions to include everything that they dislike. Calling queer people pedophiles is a textbook example of queer oppression; you don't think conservatives are gonna use that as an excuse to burn books about trans joy and wlw/mlm experiences? Because they will.

If you are pro-censorship, you are not my ally.

[melovibes57]

[queerbauten]

Joost: My parents are dead! I have an eating disorder! The other boys excluded me for being “too queer”!

me:

[fruit-kick]

GRRRRR.... i HATE ALGORITHM!!!!!! i am a HOMOSEXUAL TRANSGENDERED!!!!!!!! stop giving me TRANSPHOBIC VIDEOS i would sooner DIE for a HOMOSEXUAL TRANSGENDER before saving a TRANSPHOBE from falling into a SKEWER that SHREDS THEIR BODIES INTO A BAJILLION PIECES!!!!!!! I AM GAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!

[yourlocalbadgerscales]

Hello everyone!

@/szprycer is an adult who earlier today sent me two messages. Here they are (tw rape mention, r-slur and queerphobia!!!):

Don’t mind my replies… anyways

Here are some more pics <3

So obviously, if you, just like me, wouldn’t feel comfortable with receiving these kinds of messages… consider blocking them!

Take care everyone, I love yewwwwwww 💋

[allthecanadianpolitics]

In early March, I was featured on a Hershey Canada limited-edition chocolate bar for International Women’s Day. I was humbled to be a part of the ad campaign and hoped my inclusion would send a message about celebrating women in all our diversity.

Instead, it sparked a global campaign to boycott the company. Within days, I was targeted by figureheads of the American far right. Matt Walsh deadnamed me and called me a “vile, woman-hating extremist” to his 1.8 million Twitter followers. Brett Cooper dug up my pre- and early transition photos. Tucker Carlson—then still on Fox News—mocked me with out-of-context quotes from my Twitter and Instagram feeds and equated me with fascists. The day after Michael Knowles broadcast a segment about how “Hershey’s Transes Their Chocolate” on his Daily Wire show, he gave a speech calling for the extermination of “transgenderism” from public life.

The coverage was relentless. Scores of articles appeared in right-wing publications, and thousands of obscene messages poured into my Twitter mentions, DMs, and email inbox. Memes and caricatures of me were shared on social media. I was called a fag, tranny, groomer, and paedophile. I was encouraged to kill myself and threatened with physical violence. [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[little-bloodied-angel]

When I was twelve I read my first queer book. I gasped and cried when Dorian was the hand that drove a knife into Basil; when I understood that meant "his love killed him".

I had been told about it. I had been warned against the kind of love that would inevitably lead to your destruction. I'd been ten when it happened in real life around me for the first time, the boy I'd barely met who sentenced himself to death for who he was, while my school and my church warned us about his sin and slapped gags over our mouths.

I saw it happen again. Again. Again.

When Brokeback Mountain came out the world was so concerned with making gay cowboy jokes that by the time I dodged my mother enough to watch it I thought it was a comedy, and it gutted me. Not just because of the very real and very visceral tragedy it represented, but because I understood that the world would watch even our darkest misery and laugh.

There was no escaping it in this world, and there was no escaping it in art. The happiest endings we got were subtext. We died, or we were a mockery, or we were evil, or some godawful combination of the three.

My best friend died in my arms when I was fourteen years old and he sixteen, and I was supposed to accept that his queerness killed him as though it hadn't been his father and his priest and the self hatred that kept him pliant but ate him inside until there was nothing left.

I read De Profundis and wept and wondered if he hadn't known all along that his love would kill him too.

Being queer and trans and a mixed Jew, and growing up Catholic because the wrong parent took charge, meant growing up with the fear and the shame and the guilt and the pain; it meant burying those I claim as my people, even those who died before I was born; it meant the terror of burying someone else; it meant being pigeonholed in roles I'd never asked to play and being less than a person; and on the screen and the page it was more of the same. At fifteen I'd lived more than most people do at ninety, and I can't remember a time when my soul didn't bear permanent scars. I can remember when I started giving my body scars to match.

I am damaged. Because the world decided they knew what I was and punished me accordingly.

I looked at Izzy last year and I thought I know you, and you know me, and I let the fierce hope in my chest ignite and come fully aflame that once, just once, someone in whose eyes I saw myself would get a happy ending. I heard this show is kind this show is queer joy this show is queer love and we know how much you've needed that and I let it promise me I was safe.

I should have remembered what promises of safety have meant for me in the past.

He deserved so much better and so did we. I don't really know what else to say.

[uncanny-tranny]

I just came to a really obvious conclusion, and honestly, I think it can explain a lot.

I think a big reason why there is so much petty in-fighting in (some) queer spaces is simply because it is easy. It is easy to yell at other queer people for the language they use, or what labels they do or don't have, if they transition "right" or at all, if they are the "right" kind of queer, or whatever else. That shit is very easy.

It isn't easy, however, to fight queerphobia. It isn't easy to fight what can feel like a losing battle, and many queer people seem to almost give up because it feels like a losing battle. All those negative feelings bottle up, until it explodes and the shrapnel from those bottled-up feelings hits other queer people.

A recent anti-queer hate crime happened so close to my home town, and it really scared me. Those feelings of dread and doom and despair are indescribable. It's hard to wake up sometimes and intentionally decide to go outside because of it. This is an example, but it sometimes does feel like there's little I can do, y'know? So I think other queer people also feel like me, but they turn those feelings inward at other queer people.

I don't think this excuses anti-queerness coming from other queer people. But I think it can give us an idea of what that mindset is like. We need, more than ever, to defend each other. Queerphobia targets every queer person. To leave one queer person behind is to leave us all behind. Leaving one queer behind paints a target on all our backs. So be careful not to leave them to face queerphobia alone.

[tea-and-secrets]

tw queerphobia

That "Aren't you excited? Aren't you happy?" quote from Undertale is stuck in my mind forever. Honestly I forgot tha it's from this game, and I even forgot that after this goes "You're going to be free" even though it's part of the reason why I like this moment so much. Those words give me chills. And I related a lot to Frisk at the moment I first heard them, because this was how I saw my family. Every day I heard them whining how much they hate "the gays" and they even started to look for signs that I might be one as well, yelling at me for acting suspiciously. Even when I tried to conform they saw me as the opposite side, enemy. Despite this they still acted like my family sometimes. And it was this exact feeling, not fear exactly, but uncanny horror that maybe they already know your secret (or decided that they do) and still act like they love you, because they do wish you death while believing that this is an act of caring for you. I felt like Frisk, whose soul monsters wanted to take without caring for them as a person. Or maybe they genuinely don't know that Frisk was the human? They don't know for sure. But still monsters said them straight to the face that they should celebrate their own murder

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[lifea16]

Mother I do not think this is the best way to describe my dad not being queerphobic anymore

[hiro-doodlez]

Loved this line that i wrote for an assignment today, “Trans and LGBTQ+ suicides are already alarmingly high, now watch it spike.”

[wolf-tail]

If you cunts call one more horny trans woman a child molester I will kill you