re: my place in lgbtq community Afficher plus
re: my place in lgbtq community Afficher plus
@Filene what do you mean?
@guerrillarain I'm not sure, since a hundred folks will give you a hundred definitions of Queer.
Since I still want to give you an answer, the best I can do is thus: Queer ultimately described anything 'out of the ordinary.' But 'the ordinary' was essentially whatever a dominant narrative in the culture said so. This meant that all sorts of 'deviants' would get called queer, even if each one's subcategory isolated them. Queer as a self-applied label in this sense, would be a rejection of this assertion of 'normal', and to call it for what it is: an attempt at assimilating everybody into an ideology. Such queers would be aware of whitewashing, etc.
@Filene ahhhhh I understand. I mean, I suppose, yes. But I always feel like I'm taking up space that could be reserved for someone who really needs it. I've watched other people with real struggles.
@guerrillarain Oh, wow.. Been there, and I saw a lot of others in your replied saying something similar.
I'm not sure what it boils down to, too. Hearing it from you & others, I would say I felt some sort of "intersectionality discrimination score" going on, with some calculation of visibility times duration times suffering from discrimination. Like "I'm not as queer as the queer woman kicked out of home at 13."
I guess the only thought that gives me some relief is that the only time I felt "expertise/authority competition" was during some capitalistic objectification of human life and values.
I'm still suffering with it in some other ways today. :x