Interactions with Queer

aceofliminalspace:

Queer is such a complicated word. Its history is murky and its meaning has been redefined and turned on its head more than once. As a lurker in the ace community I saw several battles about whether aces counted as queer or not. I’ve discussed with a professor who identifies as queer my asexuality and gotten a thank you for the reminder that sometimes in the midst of fighting for the right be sexually attracted to anyone, people underestimate how hard it is to fight for the right to not be sexually attracted to anyone. Then he apologized. I didn’t really feel like he needed to apologize, but he did. Since starting this blog and paying more attention to tumblr specifically, I’ve have seen just how charged it is as a word to identify safe spaces. But to be honest, queer isn’t a word I have thought too much about. It is a word that perhaps I should be thinking more about.

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fionafix-it:

communistsextips:

Never fuck a capitalist. They refuse condoms because they don’t like protection for the workers.

never go down on a capitalist, they’ll let you do all the work and then insist they came solely through their own hard work & self-determination. 

One of the many reasons I love professors: they say ‘him or her’ when talking about who you might potentially marry without knowing my sexuality. 

mypatronusisyou:

there comes a moment in every girl’s life when she says to herself

i read some fucking weird fanfiction

gpoy