๐๐ฐ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐จ๐ข๐บ? ๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ ๐จ๐ข๐บ? ๐๐ฉ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ช๐ต ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ช๐ง ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ญ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ?
@MLClark's latest "What's So Queer about Being Here?"
https://mlclark.substack.com/p/whats-so-queer-about-being-here
brought to mind some interesting thoughts for me.
There is a lot of gatekeeping among members of the #GlobalMajority and out of every group of people in this world ... there should be the LEAST amount within this group and yet ... members of the Global Majority are sometimes WORSE than their supremacist enemies.
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I literally rubbed my hands together in glee. Looking forward to this whole thread! โค๏ธ
@MLClark I doubt anything I have to say here is worth any kind of glee ๐คฃ Your essay just made me think about some stuff ๐๐พ As always, thanks for writing so epically. โค๏ธ
Oh, that was fantastic. I *love* watching your thoughts unfold in real-time. As I was writing my piece, I was thinking about other spheres in which this same politicization happens, but I was SO thankful to see one of those other spheres so brilliantly laid out.
The way "communities" assert themselves & lay claim to the kind of narrative arc we're allowed to have within them is crushing madness wherever it takes place. Thank you for your phenomenal YOU-ness, today as always. ๐ฅโค๏ธ
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐บ "๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ด" ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด & ๐ญ๐ข๐บ ๐ค๐ญ๐ข๐ช๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฏ๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ค ๐ธ๐ฆ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ช๐ด ๐ค๐ณ๐ถ๐ด๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ช๐ต ๐ต๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ.
See how you say things so simply but it takes me 7-10 business days to get my thoughts out ๐ญ โค๏ธ
In 1990, Vito Russo (a queer activist and icon) told me that being gay wasn't about sex. That the sex acts could be done by straight people. It's a social identity.
And at the same time, I was reading Butler's Gender Trouble.
So I took that to mean that sexuality, like gender, is socially defined. It will differ over time and across cultures--and it's more about our social relationships than anything.
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That doesn't mean we don't have a real, internal gender or sexuality.
It just means that the words we use and ways we act aren't determined so much by those things as they are by our culture.
@MLClark โค๏ธ โค๏ธ