the point of slur reclamation is not to take away its status as a slur, but to take its power from the hands of oppressors and put it into our own. i do not reclaim words like fag because my goal is to normalize it and get rid of its status as a slur, i reclaim it because im making it mine now. im taking it so the power over it is in my hands, im taking their weapons from them and i dont intend to give them back
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rough Julia Todd design ;]
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Miss Pauling and the bad bitches she pulled by being silylylll!!!!!!!! Silly goose!!! She has 142 confirmed kills
(Was feeling the burnout coming on again so I tried something new and used these wonderful brushes by @ryeven ! Go check him out they have some swaagggalishis artt. anndd comissionss. ,swag.)
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i think. something that a lot of young queer kids who engage in online discourse don’t realize is that none of it matters in the real world. at all. i have been in so many queer spaces with queer people of all ages and never once have i witnessed anyone ever make a fuss about someone’s identity. i’ve seen lesbians who identify as dudes in the same room as the most femme women you’ll ever meet. fagdykes and dykefags and old bisexuals who call themselves half gay or half lesbian because that’s just the terminology they’re used to. and no one cares. no one even acknowledges these things half the time because it’s all just normal. it’s the queer experience. if you do make a fuss, a lot of people aren’t going to debate their right to exist with you. they’re going to ask you to leave, because you’re being a dick. and in my experience, if you do find a place that does care, that regulates and polices identities and labels, there’s a 90% chance you’ve found yourself in some terf-ran bullshit, because exclusionism is and always has been rooted in terf ideology. no one else gains anything from creating walls and strict limits in queerness. no one.
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I've been doing a lot of grocery delivery in the country lately, so I ordered myself a nice bumper sticker so I fit in with everyone else's stuff :)
I've seen a lot of these lately, but they were all of a pride flag I don't recognize. Not sure which gender/sexuality has the red and white stripes with the blue with white stars in the corner, but I guess it's an ok design. The rainbow is the traditional LGBT flag, though, so I feel it symbolizes the collective queer community a little better and will be a little more noticeable/recognizable than niche flags, like this stars and stripes guy.
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i love having a fucked up gender. i'm a butch. i'm a twink. am i a woman? who knows. am i a man? good question. i'm a boygirl. i'm a girlguy. i'm masculine in the way an amateur drag king might accidentally fuck up his masculinizing contour because his hands are shaking from nerves. i'm feminine in the way a butch dyke might enjoy wearing her femme girlfriend's long skirts once or twice just to twirl around in it and feel like a princess for a few minutes. i wanna have a beard so i can wear makeup and not get immediately assumed to be a cis woman. i fucking love gender it's so weird
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Hi is it weird that I hate it when a coworker refers to a pair of her shorts as ‘dyke shorts’ because I REALLY don’t like it. For context she likes to tell an antidote about how her mom said they make her look like a dyke and how she doesn’t care.
Like. My dude you are like aggressively heterosexual. Why do you think you can just throw around the word dyke. We’re in the south- I know people don’t mean it well here.
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i have some very nice, full-length, in my opinion not-super-femme skirts that i usually wear in the summer mostly for comfort reasons, though i haven't worn any of them this year at all because of being unusually gender exhausted
but today i was like fuck it. it's very hot out. i'm just running errands. cis people probably won't even talk to me
so of course the very first thing that happens is a woman in the store says "MISS? oh i'm sorry, is that your pronoun?" :') & i go "sure, whatever" (miss/misses/missself) & wave it off because again, exhausted, & she then proceeds to pitch me her entire female empowerment scented candle business plan & ask what i think of it like i'm a one-person lady focus group
& this is not even a one-off kind of thing. i am so glaringly GNC that when i do wear anything even remotely feminine-coded it's like there's suddenly a flashing neon sign above my head saying "GIVE ME SOME REINFORCEMENT, CAN'T YOU SEE I'M TRYING!?"
like...my day-to-day look is so unnoticeable, people go "oh another ugly dyke" & their eyes just slide right off me, and then i put on a skirt & women are falling over each other to tell me how brave i am for shaving my head or how they want to make sure their she-candles speak to my unusual but valid goddess spirit
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just saw a post along the lines of "'normalize dyke4fag sex' 'butches can fuck twinks' babygirl those people are just bisexual" and I'm like
for the love of god does anyone here know dyke, fag, butch, and twink are all terms that include bisexuals........... like my personal thoughts aside abt how contradictory identities and relationships are fine as long as everyone is consenting. I'm just like. you do know. all those posts already include bisexuals. what are you even getting mad at. do you need to air something out about bisexuals.
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