queer canon 

ifitgivesyoujoy:

zumie-monster:

There’s something really screwed up about the way we talk about queer representation in children’s media.

In the U.S. culture at least, there’s this instantaneous association of queer people with sex. Queer people are automatically highly sexual individuals—ergo, not ‘appropriate’ for the eyes of little kids, all of whom MUST BE STRAIGHT, RIGHT, whose heads we think would probably just explode when confronted with the oh-so-incomprehensible suggestion of gender and sexual orientation diversity existing on this planet.

Deeply ironic since—oh let’s look at Avatar the Last Airbender, the show. It features kids at ages 12-16 kissing (always het, of course)—and even strongly implies that two characters are engaging or planning to engage in some heavy petting at night. No one screams for the sexual neurosis of the child fans.

But it’s impossible for, eh, a ten year old on the sequel show to be queer, maybe have a crush on someone of the same gender. That would just make straight adults kids uncomfortable, obviously!

People who would like to see the queer community represented (aka most of us queer people) are forced to preface any sort of headcanon or fan theory about a character being gay or trans* with, “I know this would never happen in a kid’s show/I know this isn’t true,” because… the idea of an ACTUAL CANONICAL QUEER CHARACTER IN A KID’S SHOW IS—just not possible, right?

Because if we don’t acknowledge the absurdity of actual representation while saying, “hey, I read this character as a lesbian,” people will hammer us with “THAT’S NOT POSSIBLE, IT’S NOT TRUE, THIS IS A KID’S SHOW, STOP TALKING ABOUT KIDS THAT WAY, YOU’RE MAKING ME UNCOMFORTABLE, KIDS SHOULDN’T THINK ABOUT THINGS LIKE THAT.”

As if we aren’t aware of the impossibility of ever seeing people like ourselves in children’s entertainment.

As if we need to be told that we will only ever be seen as perverse deviants.

As if we need to be told that no one wants to see us.

But I have to ask you, person concerned with the frailty of our children’s minds:

What do you think that tells queer kids?

I’ll tell you, from my own experience as a child who knew they were queer:

• It tells us that we’re gross, that we’re not appropriate to be seen by other children, or even anyone.
• It tells us that we are perversely sexual.

• It tells us that we’re not normal.

• It tells us that we’re not as important as straight, NORMAL children.

• It tells us that we deserve to be neglected and ignored.

• It tells us that we’re alone, that queer children like us don’t exist.

A phrase I see around fandom a lot is, “People just aren’t ready for a kid’s show with/about a gay character (much less a trans* kid).”

So I’m just going to throw it out there—

When do you think people will be ready?

If you heard a tv show about a gay kid was going to premiere next year, would you be okay with it at that time?

How about in five years?

When are queer kids going to be able to pick up a book or turn on the tv and see someone like them, a queer character, to let them know that they’re not alone; that it’s fine to be whoever and whatever they are; that they’re not abnormal; to realize hey, I think I am like this person; to have a way to talk to their family about their identity; so that they maybe won’t have to learn self-loathing at such a young age?

What exactly do you think needs to change this to happen?

Perhaps a better question: When are YOU going to be okay with it?

And why aren’t you okay with it now?

THIS.  This is what we have been ranting about.  This is what is wrong with media marketed at kids right now.  

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Sex is no more an immutable binary than is gender. There are intersex people who are born with non-binary genitalia, as I have already mentioned. There are people with hormonal anomalies. In fact, hormone levels vary wildly within the categories of cis male and cis female. Chromosomes, too, vary. If you thought “XX” and “XY” were the only two possible combinations, you have some serious googling to do. In addition to variations like XXY, XXYY, or X, sometimes cis people find out that they are genetically the “opposite” of what they though they were– that is, a ‘typical’ cis man can be XX, a ‘normal’ cis woman can be XY.

The fact is that the concept of binary sex is based on the fallacious idea that multiple sex characteristics are immutable and must always go together, when in fact many of them can be changed, many erased, and many appear independently in different combinations. “Female” in sex binary terms means having breasts, having a vagina, having a womb, not having a lot of body hair, having a high-pitched voice, having lots of estrogen, having a period, having XX chromosomes. “Male” means having a penis, not having breasts, producing sperm, having body hair, having a deep voice, having lots of testosterone, having XY chromosomes. Yet it is possible to isolate, alter, and remove many of these traits. Many of these traits do not always appear together, and before puberty and after menopause, many of them do not apply.

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Asher Bauer (via inherhipstheresrevolutions)

Everyone, read this. The male/female body dichotomy is a myth.

(via dearcissexism)

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Hello! My name is Sebastian, and I’m engaged to my lovely partner Jasper, who lives just far enough away to be sadly long-distance. We’re hoping to get the chance to move out and live together soon. But we could use a little help. Our current living situations are problematic, to say the least, and the quicker we can get out and on our feet, the better. As a result, we’re taking donations in exchange for fic-writing and sketches, to help save up money. Even a dollar would be wonderful!

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How does a white woman claim to be the victim of yellow fever? I know, it’s so absurd it’s funny. But she manages it, by denying the impact of racism, and replacing it with a spiteful sense of competition. She doesn’t criticize her boyfriend’s race-conquest. She doesn’t flinch at his weekend tally of Asian indulgence. Instead, she basically protests that Asians took my boyfriend.

In selecting this story This American Life poses two subtexts: that white women are the natural objects of sexual attraction, and that people of color are a threat. It nurses a wound that whiteness was overlooked, and makes a fresh contribution to the Jezebel accusation of the racial temptress–”over-sexualized” Black women, “spicy” Latinas or “bellydancing” Middle Eastern woman.

For East Asian women or gay men, yellow fever isn’t a triumph, it’s a trauma. The fact that her boyfriend is a cheater is half as noxious as the fact that his casual sex is raced. But in this story, somehow, the white protagonist has managed to describe herself as oppressed by, well, Asian oppression.

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—Elisha Lim breaks down the ridiculousness of another manifestation of white female privilege—being a “victim” of the “sexual sway” of women of color, in this particular case, of Asian women—at the R today.  (via racialicious)

"The solution is to not gender others when you don’t know their gender. If you see someone, you don’t just think you know their name right? Like, if you saw someone walking down the street, you wouldn’t just be like, “Their name is definitely Mark.” Genders/pronouns/etc. (as much as people want to argue that this isn’t true) work the same way."

—thelacydisease (via radicalqueery)

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daniellemertina:

effedupthoughts:

“I Don’t Apologize For My Blackness and YOUR Fear”

Powerful

Better let em know!

Yes!

Sophie is now posting photo’s of people and where they live on her blog. Please, even if you haven’t had contact from her, or even if she’s not affecting your life, report her. Her name is Sophie M Herold, and she is destroying lives for no reason. Don’t just ask them to shut down her blog, this will do nothing to stop her, she needs to be reported to authorities, what she has done is illegal. 

edman93:

For those who don’t know what this person has done, she has taken the names, addresses and other personal info of LGBTQ people, and is sending this information out to the whole world, and outing these people against their will.

This is her blog here.

My name is Edward Lucas, and I am putting a stop to her, I am standing up to her, and I will end it. Reblog this, all of you, I don’t care if it makes your blog “ugly” or whatever. This is peoples lives at risk.

And Sophie, if you’re reading this, I mean every word I say.