For day 21 of MOGAI ABCs(link).
Unity - what are your feelings toward the MOGAI community? do you consider yourself part of it?
Generally, we think the MOGAI community is pretty nice. We love seeing all the hyperspecific labels and identities that people coin and we love seeing others use them. We especially love seeing BIPOC and other exclusive terms, they make us very happy.
We only somewhat consider ourselves to be actually *part* of the community. We’ve only coined, like, 20 things so far, and there’s still a lot of stuff we don’t understand and are scared to touch (alterous attraction…I want to coin but it’s intimidating…). Also, we just don’t know anything. We like to pretend we’re super Mature, but we just don’t have any grand thoughts on identity beyond “everything is made up”.
We have…something of a gripe with the MOGAI community, but honestly, it’s less an issue with specifically MOGAI and more just. The internet in general. We are not a child, we are rather close to becoming legally an adult, but being in big communities like MOGAI is just…a little scary? We’ve also noticed a bit of a trinary in a lot of spaces, which I won’t talk about more simply because we are. Really bad at criticizing things without somehow turning it around on ourselves. But we came into MOGAI (and LIOM, QAI, etc.) with the expectation that it would be like, a queer paradise, and we wouldn’t have to worry about the constant looming binary because we’d all agree that it was restricting and pointless and bigoted, but instead we found a lot of “The binary is old school, so look at our cool new trinary!”. Idk, we haven’t been here for that long so I can’t really elaborate more, but it’s a little disappointing.
UHHH I don’t wanna end this on a depressing note. We really like all the [x]symbol coinings recently, we’ve saved waaay too many in our drafts to make our own. Especially the one for AvPD (don’t remember what it’s called & too lazy to look)?? Ohhh boy we’re gonna go HAM on that one eventually.
Tagging: @radiomogai (for experiences)