the raven cycle is hilarious because blue and gansey are living in a coming of age romcom and adam and ronan are living in a supernatural horror film and then when they all hang out it immediately turns into an 80s treasure hunting brotherhood flick. and then they go their separate ways and adam and ronan immediately start battling the horrors again while blue and gansey eat yogurt
STAY SAFE!! [ID: the Gilbert Baker pride flag with the words “Happy pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and seen!” in all-caps black text over it. /end ID]
I think tumblr in particular, and progressive spaces in general, have overadopted the idea that being a member of a marginalized group means that you a) understand all of their issues and b) won’t have that particular bigotry. I have met misogynistic women. Antiblack black people. Psychotic people who specifically hate other psychotic people. As this is tumblr, I presume people are fairly familiar with how transmedicalist trans men went viciously after other trans men.
I refuse to call this internalized because though they do apply it to themselves sometimes, a lot of the time it’s about not being like “those” people.
Once the bigotry is something you’re hurting other people with, it’s no longer just internal- it’s a weapon you’re wielding against others.
I think that “All people in the oppressing group are automatically socialized into bigotry and need to confront that.” was a good step. I think the next step needs to be “We all are socialized in the same society to the same bigotries. Being a member of a marginalized group just means that you are more likely to do the work to unlearn bigotry against you.”
Not queer as in gay but queer is in a political movement against heteronormativity, amatonormativity, cisnormativity, ideals of parenthood with a single long term partner as ‘THE natural part of life that everyone wants’
Queer as in sex ed for kids and the elderly, queer as in free condoms in old folks homes, queer as in destigmatize STIs and stop calling them dirty, queer as in pro-sex workers and decriminalization
Queer as in decolonisation, prison and police reform/abolition, as in education reform, as in medical reform, as in harm reduction clinics, as in not only more women’s shelters but also men’s shelters and gender-neutral shelters
Queer as in anti-racist, anti-fascist, anti-transphobia, anti-queerphobia, anti-intersexism, anti-aphobia, anti-fatphobia, anti-islamophobia, and anti-antisemitism
Queer as in “yeah my gender IS sparkly blue and my sexuality is one you’ve never heard of and that’s okay”
Not queer as in gay, but queer as in rallying call
