𝘚𝘰, 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘢𝘺? 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘮 𝘐 𝘨𝘢𝘺? 𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘧 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘭?
@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! ❤️
@MLClark I doubt anything I have to say here is worth any kind of glee 🤣 Your essay just made me think about some stuff 👍🏾 As always, thanks for writing so epically. ❤️
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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@tyghebright @MLClark TRUTH!
@MLClark @thewebrecluse
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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.