#queer inclusive

[writercoracain]

hi writing community !! ♡ i'm back (as much as i can be) from my break and trying to get back into the swing of things. i just got the sketch for my cover (!!!) it's going to be perfect. i'm over the moon about it. and now i'm up against a self-imposed two week deadline ~ 1.45k words a day

if you know of any cheerleading group chats/communities/servers with a focus on fantasy/romantasy, i would looovveee to know about it 🌻

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

just a handy little info chart on the spectrums of sexuality.

/Edit: I forgot to give credit this is a screenshot from a video made by a content creator called Lily Orchard you should check her channel out it's amazing

[jo56djjneind]

"wait, but what do I say to describe people who cannot get pregnant?" a guide.

Men cannot get pregnant: INCORRECT. Transgender men are men and many are capable of getting pregnant. Also, excludes the plenty of people who are not men who cannot get pregnant.

Cis men cannot get pregnant: INCORRECT. Intersex men who are technically cis, but have uteruses and ovaries, may be capable of pregnancy, even if it's unlikely. Also, excludes the plenty of people who are not men who cannot get pregnant.

Cis perisex men cannot get pregnant: Correct, but excludes the plenty of people who are not men who cannot get pregnant.

People without uteruses cannot get pregnant: Correct, but excludes infertile and menopausal people with uteruses who also cannot get pregnant.

People who cannot get pregnant: CORRECT. Excludes no one.

To use inclusionary language, you don't need to rip through the reeds in search of wider terminology when you could quite literally say things exactly as they are. Inclusive language isn't "overcomplicated" at all. It's straightforward.

[woof-woop]

[angelheart-bunny]

people who deserve more respect and recognition:

intersex people

trans men

aromantic people

multigender people

people in qpr's

aplatonic people

[imawitchywitch]

Buying copies of banned books is awesome, but I also want to put this out there. If anyone is in college and/or has access to peer reviewed academic journals PLEASE do the following:

Buy USB drives

Download as many articles from academic journals in the coming months as you can about topics under attack, such as gender variance, DEI, critical race theory, racism, reproductive rights, climate change, and so on. Maybe pick one or two journals and topics to focus on per month! (There may be pay walls or limits on how many you can freely download)

Keep them organized on your USB’s by topic or journal

We don’t really know what will happen, what will get erased or censored from the web, but they’re already taking websites down related to DEI and reproductive rights. We need to work together to save the research and literature that we have!

[sickly-sapphic]

Intersex people deserve spaces that don't just tolerate their existance, but celebrate it.

Intersex people deserve spaces that don't instinctively refer to them as "cis people with sex development disorders".

Intersex people deserve spaces with dedicated space for us, resources and action when intersexism arises.

Intersex people deserve spaces with the INTERSEX flag hung proudly alongside other queer pride flags.

Intersex people deserve to see themselves included, represented, uplifted, educated on, and celebrated.

[lastoneout]

> them: our community is trans inclusive

> me: is it actually trans inclusive or is it just adhering to the gender binary but with trans people forced into the same ridged expectations and assumed positions of power or vulnerablility that cis people are?

> them: what do you mean

> me: *pulls out a chart explaining how gender essentialism is inherently harmful even if you count trans men and women as men and women because the very concepts of man and woman under this framework are so restrictive and reductive that they can not account for the diverse and complex intersectional experiences of trans men/women(or even marginalized cis people) and will also never be able to make a space safe for intersex, nonbinary, and multigender people*

> them: haha it's trans inclusive ma'am- I mean they

> I look inside

> it's ridged adherence to the gender binary

[melovibes57]

Queer people that gatekeep queerness weird me out. Queerness is NOT a mutually exclusive thing, it is inclusive. Kicking out asexuals, trans people & other queer people (bi/pan etc) as well is not being inclusive, it’s being oppressive and ignorant.

[dhddmods]

Why are people so against shifting language to be more inclusive?

"Ladies and gentlemen" should be distinguished guests/folks (or something else along those lines.)

"Men, women, and children" should be adults and children.

"Girls and boys/men and women" should be people. Or, if you must, girls, boys, & enbies or men, women, & enben.

"Brothers and sisters" should be siblings.

"Aunts and uncles" should be piblings.

"Nieces and nephews" should be niblings.

"Mothers and fathers" should be parents.

"Sons and daughters" should be children.

"Husbands and wives/boyfriends and girlfriends" should be partners.

"Masculinizing or feminizing HRT" should be T or E, or - if you want to be more specific - androgenizing, micro-androgenizing, estrogenizing, micro-estrogenizing, androestrogenizing, or micro-androestrogenizing.

"Transmascs & transfems" should be trans people (as transandrogynous, transneutral, transnull, transgenderless, transxenine, transoutherine, transaporine, multigender, and mixed gender people also exist.)

"AFAB and AMAB" should be raised/perceived as female or raised/perceived as male (as intersex people can be given reassigned genders after birth and/or socially imposed genders, meaning that they could be raised/treated in contradiction to what they were assigned at birth)

Why is it that, even in the queer community, binary concepts of gender and sex are still pushed?

(This isn't referring to your own personal connections. For example, if you have only aunts & uncles, saying "aunts and uncles" isn't wrong when referring to your own personal family. Its when you apply this as a generalized statement about other people that it becomes an issue.)

[boygirlfemme]

𐙚 ﹐proqueer (new flag!)

someone who supports and accepts harmless queer identities (typically seen as "contradictory," cringe, or weird) even if they don't understand some

ex. xenogenders, neopronouns, lesboys, turigirls, bi lesbians

my term + flag design ꒱

flag meaning ꒱

dark pink represents those we've lost due to queerphobia and the blood on society's hands

pink represents queer love

lavender represents queerness

white represents unique and diverse queer experiences

green (1) represents gender-nonconformity

green (2) represents nature and how queerness is a natural part of the world and biology

blue represents the infinite ways one could be queer

the lotus flower represents strength, resilience, and the spiral represents unlimited ways to be queer

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[asmolbirb]

An Incomplete List of US LGBTQ+ Helplines

I just saw the news that the Trump administration is ending funding for The Trevor Project as a 988 Lifeline partner.

First and foremost, the Trevor Project is not shutting down. They can be reached directly at 1-866-488-7386, or by texting START to 678-678. What is shutting down is the ability to call 988 and be directed to the Trevor Project’s LGBTQ+ youth lifeline.

However, I wanted to share the various LGBTQ+ helplines that I have bookmarked anyway, because god forbid one of these incredibly vital organizations DOES shut down, I want y’all to know what other support is out there.

Please feel free to add additional helplines in reblogs if I’ve missed anything!

LGBT National Hotline. 888-843-4564. Open Mon-Sat

LGBT National Youth Talkline. 800-246-7743. Open Mon-Sat

LGBT National Senior Hotline. 888-234-7243. Open Mon-Sat

Trans Lifeline. 877-565-8860. Open Mon-Fri. Peer support helpline for trans folks

Pride Institute. 833-926-2100. Open 24/7. Helpline for queer folks dealing with substance use & addiction

Call Blackline. 800-604-5841. No longer 24/7 but hours aren’t posted publicly. Open to all but geared toward queer & BIPOC folks. Will not call the police

DeQH. 908-367-3374. Open Thurs and Sun. Peer support helpline for queer Desi folks. Will not call the police

Inara. 717-864-6272. Open Fri and Sat. Peer support helpline for queer Muslims. Will not call the police

[squidfreak]

Happy Pride Month to people who regret coming out for any reason.

Happy Pride Month to all who misjudged what the people around them supported and came out, only to find out what their family or friends truly thought.

Happy Pride Month to people who never plan to come out to their family or friends.

Happy Pride Month to Transgender and Non-binary people who can't transition for their own safety.

Happy Pride Month to the Transgender and Non-binary people who detransitioned for their own safety.

Happy Pride Month to queer children and teens who are trying their hardest to survive, bigoted family knowing of their queerness or not.

Happy Pride Month to people who's queerness was denied in every possible way when they came out.

Happy Pride Month to people who's queerness is treated as a joke, not real, or "invalid."

Happy Pride Month to everyone with misfortune.

[fixing-bad-posts]

Some people are asexuals or poly and kinky weirdos. LGBT is a fun. It's people.

Submitted by @bregee13