you dont identify as queer and donât wanna be called that? thats totally fine, Iâll respect that (as the majority of queer people do, but thats another conversation).
But I dont wanna be fucking called âq***râ or âq slurâ or âqrâ or any other censored version of the word. I am queer. I am not some filthy word for you to treat like itâs gonna burn a hole in your tongue.
Youâd be rightfully furious if i started going around tagging posts with âgayâ as âg slurâ or âg*yâ or post with âlesbianâ as âl slurâ or âl*****n.â thatâd be homophobic as fuck. Both those words started as slurs, and were reclaimed and made into terms to describe an identity, just like queer has been. I recognize some people have trauma with the word queer, but the truth is some people are triggered by terms like âgayâ after growing up in the modern age where every bad and undesirable thing was labeled âgayâ by their peers, silently suffering with the knowledge that their peers would likely consider them bad and undesirable too, maybe even predatory or creepy. That wouldnât give them the right to be homophobic or go telling people to tag it as a slur or even that theyâre not allowed to identify with it. Its all the fucking same.
Donât call me q***r. I am not a slur. I am not a homophobic, transphobic weapon. I am a human, and I am queer.
(REGs and TERFs/radfems donât touch, this post isnt for you. everyone else can reblog.)
Thank you.
