I like your distinction between being born gay and choosing to be queer. I haven't seen it framed that way before. As someone who had no idea I was trans till my 40s, I feel like I did have to make an affirmative choice to face the situation and act on it. But the situation itself was on some level always there, I guess.
i've never been too keen on defining my sexuality with a label catered to filing myself away, but this really has cemented the pride in which i call myself queer. i want to be queer to build community and resistance, not to distance myself from potential accomplices. i've been feeling a lot of rage at how i've been treated in the "queer" "community" for being covid conscious and it just goes to show that our fight still has a long way to go. my accomplices don't have to share my sexuality or understand my gender, they have to understand that people are worth protecting from systems that want to kill us.
“the difference matters because we live in a world where u can be gay and uphold carceral logic, imperial war, and racial capitalism. queer, signals something deeper than who u fuck or love. it signals how u resist. it pushes us to interrogate what we’re aligning with and what we’re opposing. without making that distinction, we risk reducing queerness to aesthetics, visibility, or lifestyle, and stripped of its insurrectionary potential.”
said better than i ever could—my queerness is deeply entrenched beyond the signifiers of my labels and my relationships, it is antithetical to the very existence of the capitalist state and all of its heteronormative and populace-based operations. wonderful piece
Yes! I'm crying right now reading this.
I like your distinction between being born gay and choosing to be queer. I haven't seen it framed that way before. As someone who had no idea I was trans till my 40s, I feel like I did have to make an affirmative choice to face the situation and act on it. But the situation itself was on some level always there, I guess.
thank you so much for this 💟
i've never been too keen on defining my sexuality with a label catered to filing myself away, but this really has cemented the pride in which i call myself queer. i want to be queer to build community and resistance, not to distance myself from potential accomplices. i've been feeling a lot of rage at how i've been treated in the "queer" "community" for being covid conscious and it just goes to show that our fight still has a long way to go. my accomplices don't have to share my sexuality or understand my gender, they have to understand that people are worth protecting from systems that want to kill us.
“the difference matters because we live in a world where u can be gay and uphold carceral logic, imperial war, and racial capitalism. queer, signals something deeper than who u fuck or love. it signals how u resist. it pushes us to interrogate what we’re aligning with and what we’re opposing. without making that distinction, we risk reducing queerness to aesthetics, visibility, or lifestyle, and stripped of its insurrectionary potential.”
said better than i ever could—my queerness is deeply entrenched beyond the signifiers of my labels and my relationships, it is antithetical to the very existence of the capitalist state and all of its heteronormative and populace-based operations. wonderful piece
I’m a fucking fag!!!!! Go off !!!!!! Love u!!!!!
Thank you for this piece❤️