What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

allo-dyke-privilege:

The thing that gets me is like no academic field could ever be taken seriously if it was called “bitch theory” instead of “women’s studies” or “dyke theory” instead of literally anything else so like why the hell do people validate the existence of “queer theory”??? Why do you want people to recognize your community as a slur without having the consent of the whole community you are representing? The fact that it’s got a slur in its name is proof that it’s trash like no academic field that respected the people it studied would refer to those people solely by a slur

Or, alternatively, it’s a word that’s a slur to some and an identity to others, to the point where interpreting it as one or the other is largely a matter of individual history and/or inflection? “Gay” gets used as a slur by a lot of people - it’s certainly the word that was used as an insult when I was growing up, whereas queer was only ever positive for me - but I don’t see the goddamn Discourse Police saying that referring to anything as gay in the positive sense is *also* somehow a slur.

Unless you want to use the full LGBTQIA acronym - which includes the Q for queer anyway - there really doesn’t exist an all-encompassing term for queerness that *hasn’t* been used as a slur at some point. Except maybe mogai, but that hasn’t really caught on yet in the wider parlance, so.

Also as someone who is genderqueer and bi, queer is a really helpful word for self-identification in that it covers both identity and orientation in one term. So no, academics using this term aren’t trash, especially not when many of them are queer (and identify that way!) themselves.

(Source: heterophobiclesbean, via masctoast)

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