what’s the diff between radqueer, mogai/liom, and any other otherwise queer label??? I thought we were all kinda considered radqueer bc of xenogenders and stuff but apparetly not?? idk wat to call myself
radqueer, despite simply being short for radical queer, refers to something different from liomogai. if i get anything here wrong, anyone is free to correct me.
it refers to those who fall underneath the definitions of "labels, identities, other minorities" and/or "marginalized orientations, gender alignments (and) intersex." mogai is where xenogenders originated from and is the community most well known for coining and utilizing them. the liomogai community generally centers around the concept of coining new terms to describe pre existing feelings; rather than trying to incorporate new identities into the queer community, liomogai is expanding upon identities that already exist.
radqueerism as a whole stemmed from mogai and the idea of radical inclusionism but differs in that 1.) it's widely disapproved of by the mogai community and 2.) calls for nonqueer identities (such as paraphilias and transids) to be considered queer whilst mogai expands upon pre existing queer identities and feelings.
transids, short for transidentities, are identities that one is transitioning towards. they can be compared to being transgender but most people don't consider being transgender to be a transid. very often, transids aren't harmful—with little things such as transcollared, transcute, or transfashion as some examples—but a lot of the terms used and categorized as transids are either stolen from other communities or harmful in that they bring harm to, normalize, and/or glorify/romanticize something that shouldn't be (i.e. nazism and identifying as transnazi). some terms that were stolen from other communities include:
transspecies: originating in alterhuman/nonhuman spaces to describe someone who was, in any way, transitioning towards their actual species;
transabled: originating as an alternative name for biid (body integrity identity disorder) which is a medical disorder;
transrace: originating as a term for adoptees into families of different cultures and/or races that felt a disconnect from their perceived race versus the one they were raised as.
paraphilias are typically defined as atypical sexual interests which can include kinks but as a medical disorder they include things such as pedophilia, zoophilia, necrophilia, etc. the normalization of paraphilias would be good and come with the idea of paraphiles being able to get help with and talk about being a paraphile without automatically being shunned or shamed, however, radqueerism in its original definition called for the legalization of acting upon all paraphilias.
radqueerism eventually expanded to include things such as "muds" (medically unrecognized disorders which were, more often than not, just people pathologizing normal behaviors and/or bunching together a ton of things that already fell underneath medically recognized disorders) and "fults" (standing for 'faux/fake cults' in which people 'consented' to being in a cult which is... yanno. cults typically already coerce people into consenting and what was happening was more often than not people legitimately trying to form cults around themself).
but it would also be watered down with many newer radqueers claiming to not support pro contact paraphilias despite the original definition calling for it, so then other terms would be coined in response to either embody the original ideals of radqueerism but underneath a different name (i.e. xenosatanism) or separate themself from the idea of radqueerism and its original ideals (other [x]queer terms that i can't really remember right now).
radical inclusionism/radinclus
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you didn't ask about this one but it's one that people commonly get mixed up with radqueer. we& consider our&self to be radical inclusionists which means we& support and include contradictory identities (i.e. mspec monos, gaybians, straightbians, lesboys, veldigirls, etc.). some people consider radical inclusionism to be synonymous with liom & mogai; some people don't.
pt: too long; didn't read. end pt.
radqueerism originated from mogai (to my knowledge) but is separate in that it calls for the legalization and normalization of acting on any paraphilias and/or transitioning towards any transid no matter how harmful it may be. do note: it's been a while since i've been involved in anti radqueer spaces so parts of my explanation might be wrong. i encourage you to look into these things yourself and form your own opinion about what you'd like to label yourself because my explanation is going to be heavily bias against radqueers.
