#queer dictionary

[reverse-queer-dictionary]

Queer Dictionary Carrd

I ran a poll a week or two ago about the carrd I’m working on, and the majority of people said they wanted to see it!

Updates as I add things will be posted on this blog under the tag #queer dictionary (feel free to block that tag if you’re not interested)

You can submit any suggestions/glitches/errors through this blog’s ask box as well!

Moving on…

Here is the link!

Here is a list of what I currently have finished:

Everything under the sexuality tab (juvelic orientations, multisexual spectrum, monosexual spectrum, asexual/aromantic spectrum, and miscellaneous sexualities)

The binary section and non-binary sections under the gender tab

I plan on working on the fluid gender tab next!

[thetrinitytest]

happy pride month from peepaw harkness and the torchwood team 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[sophsun1]

Queer As Folk – 1.22: Full Circle

[byoldervine]

If it helps you to not feel like your story isn’t original enough, everything you’ve written is plagiarised from the dictionary

[nocturnal-riptide]

I just want to point this out that queer actually meant odd and weird (which I don't mind) and even damaged. So as making fun of queer people and bullying them transphobes/homophobes started calling us queer. And we accepted the name and now we use it as a good term or at least people who aren't homophobic/transphobic

Now we use cis/cisgender to describe people whose gender is the same as the sex they were assigned at birth. And it literally means "this side" in Latin while trans means "the other side". And yet cis people specially terves and homophobes think of it as an insult and are offended by it.

... I don't know how much politer they wanted to be called at this point

[k-wame]

the tumblr-what? going viral you mean? can we just celebrate another culturally impactful entry into the thrilling psychosexual gothic tradition? it's a big space

[not-poignant]

I feel like the folks who are like 'yeah but queer has been an actual slur whereas gay and homosexual have not' should maybe learn some queer history.

They were both considered such slurs for such a long time that university papers couldn't use them, because they were too derogatory. They had to say 'men who have sex with other men' because gay and homosexual were too derogatory, too much of a *clears throat* slur if you will, to put them in academic papers as anything other than hate speech.

I beg. Please learn some queer history. No word for us has ever not been a slur against us. We reclaim. We move on.

[pronouncingitwang]

i just think "due to being Not Humans they have no gender and don't fuck. because of their biology." feels so fucking flat next to "they have incorporated themselves into human society over millennia and understand the shifting social meanings surrounding various facets of identity and could have had any option available to them gender- and sexuality-wise but they chose to be agender and ace" like the first one is like. okay cool you've acknowledged that gender and sexuality are arbitrary and thanks for the worldbuilding i guess. and the second one is queer

[libertea-and-icedcoffee]

speaking french and spanish and having non-binary pronouns is a curse

and i'm not even talking about the fact that the whole language is gendered

i'm talking about the fact that "elle" in spanish (pronounced "eyé" (?) is a gender neutral contraction of el and ella

but "elle" in french is basically "she"

So saying that my pronouns are iel/they/elle confuses french speaking people when they read it because they think that my pronouns are basically french-they/they/she and it's annoying lmao

[bitegore]

When i say i want to hang out with weirdos I do not mean "I want to hang with gay people and that's my marker for whether or not someone is weird." I'm not saying "weird" and meaning "vaguely aro" or "polyam" or "nonbinary" or whatever. Those are not personality traits. They tell you nothing about what that person is like. If i say I need more weird people in my social circle I'm talking about people who are weird. People who aren't like, going with the grain of any community based on literally anything. I have standards for this. I'm looking for like. People who won't blink if I say i only ever enter my house through the window or when I talk about drinking gasoline and then do it and they see I'm not joking, or people who won't think anything huge of me cracking the top of an eggshell and drinking the whole thing from the top in one mouthful. Or if they do, they do enough same-vein shit that it doesn't faze them. These are not really the same as being part of a very broad group of people who happen to have an exogender or whatever. I have met some incredibly normal (derogatory) trans people and gay people and aro people and nonbinary people. When i say weird I mean weird.

[reverse-queer-dictionary]

Queer Dictionary Update 21/04/24

I fixed some grammatical errors and broken links, corrected any mislabeled flags, and made some formatting changes to make it more coherent!

Here is the link to the carrd!

[deramin2]

"The Queens' English, The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases" by Chloe O. Davis is by far one of the best dictionaries I've ever read. Slang dictionaries are always important folk history documents, but often don't trace where the words came from. This one does from multiple angles.

A lot of language widely used in the queer community is appropriated from POC, especially Black and Latine ballroom culture. It's excellent advice to white people in particular to mind where the words they're using come from, but actually looking it up somewhere is increasingly difficult.

So I was delighted to find a dictionary by a Black queer woman who includes term, related terms, cross referenced terms, clear definitions, examples of usage, hire to think about the term, usage notes (including community origin), and historical or other information.

I can flip to any random page of this book and find a whole crash course on queer history and culture from any term. It also serves as a conscious language dictionary, which I always enjoy. Hell yeah I do want to be more aware of the weight and legacy of my words to increase precision.

Apparently there's also an illustrated young readers edition published earlier this year. I loved exploring the world's through reference books as a child and I'd have loved that. Great context for kids watching a lot of TikTok and streamers and picking up new language that way without a lot of context.

Please check out this book. It's such a necessary tool for our community to understand each other more fully.

[sophsun1]

Queer as Folk – 1.22: Full Circle

[meat-loving-meat]

If you’re speed-reading to get through a pretty mediocre book for your book club and you’re more or less skipping every third word, you too can unlock something called ‘the penis that lives underneath Halldor’s shirt’

[queeradreena]

celestia x twilight fans?

twilight x celestia w celestias early on set feelings "omg i love twilight sm shes so fulslsgjl luna please tell me what this is" "dear sister thats called a crush and it is completely normal! BUT NOT IN THIS CASE KILL THE BUTTERFLIES IN YOUR STOMACH NOW WERE GONNA GET BAD REVEIWS ON GOODREADS"

[angel-of-genders]

New gender systems part one:

All accessed from the dictionary of obscure sorrows. Similar to sonderous and kenochoric in concept.

Monachopeus: An umbrella term for identities that relate to monachopsis: the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

Rubatosian: An umbrella term for identities that relate to rubatosis: the unsettling awareness of one's own heartbeat.

Aftersaean: An umbrella term for identities that relate to aftersome: the feeling of being astonished to think back on the bizarre sequence of accidents that brought you to where you are today.

@page-2-ids you might be interested?