This GoFundMe is for a friend of mine who was displaced by the Camp Fire in CA. Their house is relatively ok but they can’t return right now and they don’t have loss of use coverage on their homeowners insurance, so paying for their hotel is out of pocket.
Anything you can spare for this amazing human would be great – Dacey is the teacher who bought one of her trans students a coming-out gift and is just incredible.
Y’all are some of the most disingenuous motherfuckers. I am exhausted. And I am really done with this trauma argument.
A confession: I have been harassed and verbally abused with it/its pronouns before.
I don’t fully understand why some trans people choose to use it pronouns for themselves, and I don’t follow anyone who does anymore because seeing someone referred to as “it” upsets me.
However, I do not shame or belittle trans folks who use it/its pronouns in a reclaiming fashion because it’s none of my business and I am not a piece of obnoxious shit.
If you have trauma associated with the word queer, then you need to respect me and yourself enough to not interact with my blog.
This blog literally has QUEER in its url, name, and description. Every other post on this blog contains the word QUEER. This blog is about QUEER people, for QUEER people, by a QUEER person.
No one is forcing you to interact with this blog. No one is forcing you to interact with the QUEER community. No one is forcing you to apply the word QUEER to your own identity.
Block blogs that have queer in their url. Add the word QUEER to your Tumblr tag blacklist. Download one of the many different apps and browser extensions that exist and use it to hide posts with the word QUEER in them.
Try taking at least some responsibility for your own mental health.
You aren’t queer? You don’t like the word? That’s fine. Your feelings and your trauma are valid.
But hear this: y’all need to leave QUEER people the FUCK alone.
Stop adding “queer is a slur” to our posts.
Stop inviting yourselves onto our posts to whine about the phrase “queer community”.
Don’t reblog our posts if you’re going to tag them with “#q slur”.
Stop making discourse of our genders and sexualities.
Stop trying to create rules over who is allowed to call themselves queer when you yourself are not queer.
Stop sending us invasive messages demanding to know “how” we’re queer or if we’re “really lgbt”.
Stop trying to make the queer community responsible for your personal baggage, as if we aren’t surviving with our own.
Let QUEER people live.
god yes OP
“Stop trying to make the queer community responsible for your personal baggage, as if we aren’t surviving with our own.”
Wednesday, November 14th – Hi everyone, I’m Gemma and I’m so sorry to ask this again so soon from my previous postbut, is anyone able to send me a few £’s so I can eat this month and December?
As many of you may already know, I have been struggling horribly these past few months to make ends meet and pay off my bills due to my welfare benefits (Universal Credit and Housing Benefit) having been revoked because of my mental illnesses. And despite my numerous job applications, I haven’t been successful and without any government help, I’ve been struggling to get by and bills are constantly popping up, leaving me further in debt.
I am not due to receive a partial benefit payment of £185 until November 25th, all of which will most likely go towards my rent, leaving me with nothing for bills and food and I know that I have asked this a lot these past few months and all the help I have previously received has literally helped me from spiraling into more debt and helped me to eat and stay warm so far and I absolutely hate to ask for more help but I have no one else to turn to. I’m literally freezing, hungry and drowning in debt at the moment because of my sanctions and since this situation has been ongoing for so long, government aid/food banks are unable to offer me any more assistance.
If anyone could spare any amount to help me, even if it’s just £1/$1/€1, it would literally save my life and, sharing definitely helps just as much as donations. Nobody has to donate if they can’t or don’t want to, I know we’re all struggling. Thank you for your help 💖
saying it again but a feminism that invites people to publicly share and discuss their traumatic experiences, without mentioning any of the potential downfalls or side effects, is so dangerous, for example: if your social media account is public, potential employers could find it, or it could force confrontation within your immediate social sphere, or random strangers could harass you, without even going into mental health aspects of “sharing a story” over and over again. there are ways to break down shame and stigma around trauma without making individual people into platforms, especially when they do not have the legal and financial protection of large celebrities, and there are actual safer spaces to discuss your own trauma, and safer ways to process things, than very public revelation
Also, this type of feminism, mentioned above, makes victims/survivors of trauma, who do not share their stories publicly, feel like they are contributing to the stigma around trauma. Victims/survivors should never be made to feel like their decision, on how they discuss their trauma, contributes to stigma and shame or impedes activism.
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