self-isolating LGBTs of SPRING 2020

go get J3ss3 Sing@l to interview you if you want attention

Thanks, FGTI and Table for making interesting points, and engaging seriously with the discussion. I really miss discussions on that level, but it's clear there's not much appetite for them among the other regulars. Have a good evening.

Yeah sorry guys, calling an AFAB-transperson (who themselves has not undergone medical transitioning) "truscum" is way outside of my level of comfort and I'm gonna leave this discussion before I start using the word "fuck"

I miss my IRL queer spaces so, so much at the moment. Lockdown has been so hard for that. I miss my queer theory reading group. I miss my various enby groups. I miss queer reading nights at the Feminist Library.

I miss spaces where being COMPLICATED is not automatically equated to being "difficult". Spaces where being "difficult" is celebrated as an inherent part of the complicated panology of queerness, and not pathologised or used as a justification for your abuse.

I miss spaces where "acknowledgement of systemic oppression and power structures" is not dismissed as ~oh noes a conspiracy~ thinking, but considered the structure of fundamental reality.

I miss, most of all, in my queer theory reading group, the respect that we show each other, that we do not automatically reach for the worst, most problematic, negative interpretation of the things we discuss, but that we tease out difficult and thorny and complicated concepts together. That freedom is such a joy, and it's so rare.

The difference, of course, being that it's a lot easier to have a discussion in person than it is among a faceless group of usernames.

a summer thread

boy do we need it now

Start it up yourself and you get to pick which letters from the alphabet soup you want.

Just don’t use “QUILTBAG”

i cant even guess if thats a 'real' acronym

I've seen it in the wild

So ... in this thread?

Morbz, I know life is shit, no one cares about us, and you've been going through a rough time. I wish you the best, but insulting people who might otherwise be your allies just seems counterproductive and at this point, cruel to all parties involved.

oh i havent BEGUN insulting anybody

and i dont need this

i feel the same kinship with LGBHHDGFUUZD people as i do with the right-handed.

xp feel free to FINISH anytime soon

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Yeah sorry guys, calling an AFAB-transperson (who themselves has not undergone medical transitioning) "truscum" is way outside of my level of comfort and I'm gonna leave this discussion before I start using the word "fuck"

― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, July 29, 2020 11:12 AM (two hours ago)

oh hey just to circle back to this, fuck this and fuck you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fTXzdHoip8

Thread's not doing much to bolster the case for cis gay men rn tbh.

i'd like a case, a nice lager perhaps

ftr my good faith/bad faith thread was in response to this thread

did i miss something

basically the ILX version of Fox & Friends

now let's do Fox and His Friends

Kinda already did both

AFAB queerness is valid and fluidity is valid and online experiences are valid, I got screamed at because my advice centred AFAB queer people. (That centring AFAB queer inherently means excluding AMAB queers, but... if a space centres AMAB queer people by default, that's... NOT exclusionary? That's just... what, normal?)

If you make a disparity between AFAB spaces and AMAB spaces, you are literally transphobic.

less AFAB and AMAB, more AHAB (moby dick reference)

I'm on board with that.

ahoy

blow me Ishmael ;)

call it a braised cod

lol

If you make a disparity between AFAB spaces and AMAB spaces, you are literally transphobic.

― braised cod

Thanking u for circling back to this

That was a genuine thank u!!

sorry silby, I'm new here.

Never admit that, claim you’ve been posting for at least 12 years under various names

<3

Good mourning!

Could use a couple more of you over on the Janet poll thread with Brad gone.

And I remain horny.

Still fighting anxiety/panic, but at least I'm finally on a prescription.

Brad left? Oh dear.

Sending all of you lots of love.

I don't know that for sure; just seems that way since otherwise he'd be all over the Janet poll.

it's a great poll Eric

not v lgbt atm but feel duty-bound to assert in brad's absence that they are a they

thanks for being so dutiful

less AFAB and AMAB, more AHAB (moby dick reference)

― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map)

this, of course, stands for "assigned harpoon at birth"

(no i didn't come up with this, all of these jokes have been told and retold for years)

lol

innies over here, outies over there

I must admit it took me a while to work out who was assigned what at birth when I first saw the ACAB as an acronym. Or, rather, to work out that it wasn't related at all.

Assigned Cop At Birth fits for some people

Omg!