#radicallyqueer

Hello Radqueer community!

I normally keep my edits to myself, BUT I had an urge and impulse to redesign the Radqueer flag.

I incorporated the colors of a strawberry color dropped from a real strawberry. I kept the rainbow and black bars of the original flag.

Feel free to use this flag or not.

Credits appreciated but NOT required.

I hope everyone likes this. It feels important to create from love and creativity.

Friendly reminder to anyone who is NOT a Radqueer;

We are PRO consent

ANTI non consentual abuse

Actions =/= Urges =/= Impulses =/= Words =/= Thoughts =/= Fantasy

Remember, just because someone is a paraphile, (a condition which is not controlled by the way), does not mean that they are automatically going to be an abuser. Educate yourselves on paraphilias from educated professionals, from books, blogs, anything. EDUCATE YOURSELF before you start spewing hatred and propaganda and misinformation.

*edit to add*

A pal of mine started a petition ~a week ago for the shutdown of r/Systemscringe. It's gained traction, but if we want action to be taken, we'll probably need more signatures.

For those who are unaware, Systems Cringe is a subreddit that harms plurals of all origins, no matter the count of headmates, their stance on non-traumagenic plurality, or their diagnostic recognition. They disregard and fakeclaim organized abuse, they make fun of systems for using system resources (no seriously, they said a system was faking because they used Simply Plural. Tf??), they stigmatize plurality and contribute to the hostile views the public already has of people who identify as such, etc..

Even if you're a singlet, every voice matters. Help us get this taken down, for your fellow plurals.

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I really, truly do believe that Youth/Adult relationships and the like can be fully consensual even in sexual contexts, BUT not when this community 1. Constantly treats victims of actual sexual assault and grooming like shit and ignores them and 2. Never give proper sex education

The biggest issue with Youth/Adult relationships is two factors, one being that the youth usually has a lot less of a chance to be able to get help if the relationship turns sour or already was beforehand which makes it difficult to safely leave that relationship, and two being that a lot of youth do not have proper sex education for the case of them wanting to have sex (whether with adults or other youth) which often leads to them being susceptible to being coerced into unsafe or harmful sex with no idea that it is harmful.

If the youth had both a trustworthy community to go to when in need of help out of relationships (which the Radqueer community is supposed to be, but has proven many times to not be fully reliable) as well as the necessary information to know when a relationship is becoming bad or harmful, then the idea of Youth/Adult relationships being harmful essentially gets wiped out of the question.

And before the commentary on youth's body being "improper for sex" or otherwise incompatible with it, there are PLENTY of other groups of people who are the same and even so sex is not just penetration. Plenty of intersex people cannot have penetrative sex (whether themself being penetrated or doing the penetration), there are conditions people with vaginas can have that leads to the inability to be penetrated without internal damage or harm, there are plenty of people with penises who just do not have the length necessary to penetrate others, and so on so forth. This should NEVER be your reason behind why sex is not okay for a person.

Rambling: Eileen Myles

I got RECOGNIZED!!! by another radqueer!

I was outside in public and they just walked up to me and was like "hey, are you from Beyond the Plus?" Then they told me they were closeted but looked up to me and wanted to exchange contact info so we could stay in touch

Ts is the best thing that's ever happened to me istg. I'm also really happy for the other person! But i've never been recognized before, at least that I know of, and it makes me pretty happy that I finally have been, and that it was good attention

Hey everyone, I've been working on a survey for you radqueers and it's finally done! It's a big survey with lots of questions, all designed to give me some insight of who our community is, where we're at, what we want to see, and how that all correlates. All the questions are optional, but the more you answer the better data I'll get. It's hosted on Cryptpad, an anonymous, end-to-end encrypted survey hosting website. The findings of the survey will be made public, however, text answers will be rephrased to maintain anonymity, and individual results will not be made public. Please share it to those you know!