rtarara:

apersnicketylemon:

Stop screaming about how ‘queer is a slur’ every time someone says ‘I like being queer’ or ‘I id as queer’ or ‘let people id as queer’.

We fucking know. All our words are slurs. Lesbian started as a slur. Gay started as a slur. Bisexual started as a psychological disorder, same with transgender. All our words have bad starts, the point in us using them was to reforge their sword into our armour.

Let us id as queer in peace. Stop harassing people over their identities.

It’s queer studies for a reason. It’s a useful umbrella term. The minute you start calling out letters is the moment that people get missed or excluded. And that’s the point of anti-queer as an umbrella term pushers. We reclaimed the word ages ago. Straight people don’t really even bother trying to throw that one at us anymore really. Enough.