#caedoqueer

[Image ID: A two-panel horizontal comic. The only colours used are black and deep blue, except for one block of white text. Everything is surrounded by a thick, black, sort of scribbly border.

Panel 1: Inside the border above the first panel, blue handwriting reads: i miss you. i miss you so much. is this how you feel when you mourn me? The panel itself contains a lone head at the center. His hair is short and he's reaching his arms up, hands almost covering his face. The only feature drawn on the face is the right eye and right eyebrow, which has an eyebrow ring through it. His few features are twisted in grief and tears are pouring from both his drawn eye and the space his other eye would be. He's looking down, maybe at his hands, maybe at the ground. The rest of the body is not drawn. As his tears fall down to the bottom of the panel, they grow much larger in size, until they're almost the size of his head.

The panel fades to black through a series of brushstrokes, then fades back to blue in the same way to start the second panel. Inside the black space between the panels, there is white handwriting that reads: i don't see an end to this guilt until it's too late.

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).