My Girlfriend And I Talk A Lot About Our Different Generations Of Queerness, Because She Was Doing Queer

My girlfriend and I talk a lot about our different generations of queerness, because she was doing queer activism in the 1990s and I wasn’t.

And she’s supportive of my writing about queerness but also kind of bitter about how quickly her entire generation’s history has disappeared into a bland “AIDS was bad, gay marriage solved homophobia” narrative, and now we’re having to play catch-up to educate young LGBTQ+ people about queer history and queer theory. It gets pretty raw sometimes.

I mean, a large part of the reason TERFs have been good at educating the young and queer people haven’t is, in the 80s and 90s the leading lights of TERFdom got tenured university positions, and the leading lights of queerdom died of AIDS.

“Excuse us,” she said bitterly the other day, not at me but to me, “for not laying the groundwork for children we never thought we’d have in a future none of us thought we’d be alive for.”

On this wonderful day I’m giving you my beloved grape boy🍇🍷 Who looks like hes been indulging a bit to much in the good drink

I hope you all like this piece, I’m really proud with how the coloring came out!

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the point of “gender is a social construct” isn’t that gender is meaningless, it’s that we should be allowed to decide what it means

requested by babyboodle

Growing up with your starters

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consider… fat pirates.  big burly fat pirates with strong arms and loud voices.  pirates with no understanding of landlubbers’ “manners” and no interest in them, either, all rowdy and profane and full of laughter and threat.  fat pirates who eat with gusto, sing with gusto, love with gusto.  fat pirates being very tender with each other.  fat pirates being very tender with you, maybe, if you’d like to be in this scenario as, like, i don’t know, a cabin boy (gender neutral) or a kidnapped merchant’s offspring or something, or maybe another fat pirate, whatever floats your (pirate) boat.  i know this is an extremely specific fantasy i’m indulging in right now but pals i’m just gay, and i think you should consider fat pirates.