#misqueer

☘︎ ݁ a blankqueer term for those who are deemed “incorrectly“ queer. from old English mis- meaning “wrongly, badly, incorrectly“ and queer.

misqueer represents any queer person who has been deemed the “wrong“ type of queer, including:

☘︎ aro-allo individuals, as well as aro-spec individuals who still desire and/or engage in/with romance, and a-spec individuals who still desire and/or engage in/with sex. ☘︎ aplatonic, afamilial, asensual, etc. individuals, and those on the spectrum of aforementioned labels. ☘︎ ݁contradictory label-using individuals such as multisexual spectrum lesbians, gays, hets, etc.; lesboys and turigirls, tris/cistrans, afab transfem/amab transmasc, and any of those who consider oneself contraqueer. ☘︎ gender non-conforming transgender individuals, including those who cross-dress, transmasculine individuals who use a feminine name and/or pronouns, transfeminine individuals who use a masculine name and/or pronouns, transgender drag artists, and any of those who consider oneself GNC. ☘︎ individuals who use micro-labels or otherwise not well-known labels. ☘︎ nounself, name only/no pronoun, xenopronoun, and any other neopronoun user. ☘︎ those who experience queerplatonic, alterous, or another tertiary attraction commonly seen as having characteristics of romantic attraction while not actually being romantic. ☘︎ transgender individuals who desire or have undergone an unorthodox medical transition, such as micro-dosing hormones, surgery without hormones, synsex (controversially known as salmacian), nullosex/nullification or otherwise altersex, and any other form of anormative medical transition. ☘︎ ݁transgender individuals who do not wish to medically transition at all. ☘︎ transgender individuals who transitioned, are transitioning, or will transition later in life. ☘︎ unlabelled individuals or individuals who reject labels altogether. ☘︎ xenogender individuals.

color & symbol representation:

☘︎ amber represents the positive, warm, and friendly energy for each other in the community, and endurance through misunderstanding and blind hatred. ☘︎ gold as a color represents prospering in misqueer identities, and growth in the common understanding of misqueer identities. ☘︎ white represents a new beginning for those who have come to accept misqueer identities or being one oneself, and an open mind even to identities you don’t understand. ☘︎ black represents the intimidation and vulnerability misqueers ofen feel in one’s identity, and others’ off-put nature to misqueer identities. ☘︎ light red represents anger that misqueers feel about others being inconsiderate or outright aggressive towards one’s identity. ☘︎ dark red represents the hostility misqueers face for one’s identity. ☘︎ the bird symbol is a pigeon, which i picked as being a well known outcast animal. pigeons lived alongside humanity until they were deemed useless when no longer needed to deliver messages, and are now demonized as vermin. i feel like their story has a lot of reflections with fellow queers being condemned in their own community. ☘︎ the X symbol is a common symbol of something being wrong or incorrect, which the misqueer identity is seen as at its core.