im honestly just like furious at the ideas that pervade media & everything that is so layered so im gonna fuck up talking abt it but it’s like this dumb violent cycle that produces maybe two kinds of coming out stories: 1, kid struggles w sexuality, feels shitty abt it, tries hard to be “”“normal”“”, some one is like babe ur valid & everything is healed, & 2, kid comes out & isn’t accepted for it & holds their head high & struggles through it. & like it’s so pervasive it doesn’t give kids a chance to like not be aWare of this shit. not be aware that as queer kids ur gonna have to grovel & beg at least once in ur life for someone to accept u & u know the fuck what??? it’s bullshit. it’s bullshit & i honestly feel like i’ve been punched every time my family says the most minor homophobic shit & then i feel BAD abt that bc im being “”“too sensitive”“” but like it’s not one comment it’s this sharp little reminder that the next time i come face to face w this person, they might know & they might despise me & it unsettles u in a very deep horrifying way bc ur self perception is doubled or cleaved in two bc u are one person who u know & u are one person they know & u have to be so careful all the time w what u project & what u say & it bleeds into our communities w near desperation like we make joking “touch starved” posts but i can’t rmbr the last time someone hugged me who knows that im queer & there’s a difference, there’s an ease abt being hugged by someone who Knows who u are.
& the first coming out story where someone not queer tells them that they’re valid & everything is healed Isn’t Real & u grow up thinking if i can get this one person to tell me im okay, if this person can tell me im valid & all that, then i will be okay & u latch onto all these outside influences to be okay, to be safe & u don’t get to develop that voice inside that is certain abt it. it always depends on an others view of u. & the second kind of coming out where the kid Struggles like congrats mate this cements the fear that gay life is a constant struggle. in a way i think is almost worse, it can sometimes stage this suffering as smth noble, as an “i’ll prove them wrong one day” kind of thing & i hate it i Hate it. ppl don’t have to struggle to be worthy of respect, of being treated well, this shouldn’t be the lesson we are taught!!
anyway that’s a rant it’s stupid it’s all been said before I’ll delete it later im just sad
With @tumblingsnail, please don’t delete. There is nothing stupid here, just honesty and this kind of insight is what often lacks in discussing these stories. We see these struggles play out online, with discussions about representation, and it is so frustrating and heartbreaking to see the misinformation and doubt and sneer of the crowd that doesn’t care to learn.
Thanks as always for sharing your thoughts with us.
Freema Agyeman, who plays Amanita on the show, reacts to Sense8 being canceled.
I hope the outcry at Netflix is deafening.
Another casualty in the war on humanity/diversity.
They’ll chalk it up to ‘ratings’, I’m sure.
First there was Xena.
Then there was Lexa.
Now there is Lena.
Coincidence? I think not.
I’m a bit worried about Bill Potts.
Not that Moffat will kill the lesbian, just that…it’s Moffat and he’s written some blatantly sexist stuff in his time, has not been big on racial diversity during his tenure for both Who and Sherlock, and he brings us a companion who is a queer woman of colour.
And, just so we know she’s a queer woman, she wears a rainbow-striped tank and her name is Bill.
Also: she isn’t the first openly queer companion the Doctor has had (Captain Jack, Clara). You think the BBC would know the show they’ve produced for the past 54 years.
I want to be wrong about all the things that worry me here, and hope yet another generation of Whovians, who have been craving representation on this show, aren’t let down. *Fingers crossed*
like, straightaway. the comet hits in chapter three. all the rest is people dealing with the immediate aftermath.
meaning NATURAL DISASTERS
there is also a generation ship that was supposed to flee the planet but couldn’t leave on time you had one job.
biracial bisexual trans girl who Gets Things Done
dust blocking out the sun
autistic heroine whose special interest is cats, who’s actually called autistic in-text, who deals with microaggressions and burnout and overload and happy stimming, who has thoroughly prepared for the end of the world, and who’s picky about her food even in the face of the apocalypse 👌
water. a lot of it.
Amsterdam. it’s not in great shape. sorry, Amsterdam.
survivors not going all Walking Dead on each other
but being practical and conflicted and scared and hopeful
hopeful apocalypse?
~life-affirming~ apocalypse
it is now on sale
the ebook went from $15.54 to $1.29
please help show publishers books like this can work?
-Soren (The Outcast): Arguably transgender, born into an androgynous race but identifies as a woman.
-Odan (The Host): Expresses attraction toward Crusher when she is in a female host; attraction does not seem to be based on gender. Arguably genderfluid/genderqueer.
DS9:
-Jadzia Dax: Bi/Pansexual, arguably genderfluid/genderqueer. (Presumably this also includes Ezri Dax although we never see her express an attraction to women).
-Mirror Ezri: WLW, possibly a lesbian but uncertain.
-Mirror Leeta: WLW, probably a lesbian.
VOY:
-Tieran (Warlord): Has a relationship with a man and a woman simultaneously (it should be noted that this is while he is in Kes’s body).
I think it’s interesting to note that almost all of these instances involve women (Tieran even appears in a female body). This does seem to suggest that men in relationships with other men is somehow more taboo than women loving other women, at least in television. Possibly this is a result of lesbian relationships being seen as enticing to male viewers who find them arousing.
Regardless, seven or eight characters in 728 Star Trek episodes is truly despicably low representation.
(And, of course, there are plenty of other characters who can be interpreted as Queer very easily-I even almost included Garak because his flirting with Bashir was so obvious. But these are only the blatant canonical examples.)
So ironic coming from the programme that gave us the original slash-fic pairing (Kirk/Spock).
The Doctor Is Out 