#caedo-

This is a broad term to unite queer trauma survivors who have had their queer identities affected by their trauma in some way. I wanted to create a term to acknowledge how trauma can impact one's experiences with one's own identity and queerness.

Caedqueer, or caedoqueer, is a broad identity describing someone who identifies as queer and feels that one's queerness or parts of one's queer identity have (whether presently or in the past) been altered or damaged, if not entirely "cut away," by trauma of some form.

One may still use this term if one's queer identity has been altered, damaged or "cut away" due to trauma in the past (even if, presently, they have recovered and have a strong connection with their queer identity) as long as this part of one's experience is something one wants a term to acknowledge.

The term may be used as:

A broad term for any folks who want a word to acknowledge that their queer identity has been/is being negatively affected by trauma/(a) traumatic experience(s).

A broad term for those who do not want to specify the identities that have been affected by trauma in this way (as opposed to more specific caed- labels).

» made with alterhumans/nonhumans in mind, but it is not exclusive.

» made with alterhumans/nonhumans in mind, but it is not exclusive.

flag stripe meanings (top to bottom):

-melancholy, trauma, & integral connection to poetry / language

-alienation, gendervast-ness, otherkinity / being copinglink, & lacking a connection to humanity due to trauma / autism

-fluctuating gender & lack of gender

-autism, transmasculinity, & gender-abstract femininity

-connection to ethereal spirits, gender lonliness, & gender confusion