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I'm recoining my radqueer flower symbol on this website because I've seen uncertainty as to where the symbol comes from. I was the one that created the symbol, but it was first on social media that doesn't exist anymore. I didn't have this website back then, but I do now! So I'm just gonna coin it here again.
I've been experimenting with a lot of different blog article themes lately, and this time around I wanted to write a guide! It's easy for me to just write up on theory and try to convince people to implement that into their lives, but that's not as effective as just giving straight instructions on what to do and how you should be doing it. This article will go into detail on how to do in-person meetups as safely as realistically possible. Many in this community are inexperienced and afraid, and the idea of meeting up with people who may be antis is scary, but with the right steps taken, meetups can become something safe and fun!
The topic of being transrace keeps coming up on stream, and I keep saying I'm going to write something about it, so fuck it here we are.
Whenever a new album from a band I like comes out, I always make a quick little review, where I rate each song on a scale of 1-10 and then determine the mean, median, and mode rating from that set of ratings. I've posted them in the past on social media, but I thought it would be nice to make it an official blog post instead, where I dive further into my thoughts on a record. Depending on how this goes I might continue to do it in the future, I may even do it live or make videos instead. But in the meanwhile the blog format works.
Beyond the Plus is dead, long live Beyond the Plus.
Activism is a word that gets thrown around radqueer circles a lot, it's a concept that our community latches onto, hoping that someday "activism" will save us. We see a lot of people (including myself, admittedly) calling themselves activists, and they wear that title like a badge of honor, garnering respect from people in the community that look up to them, hoping they'll be their savior. Activism is indeed a real thing, but I think the way our community has turned it into a buzzword does more harm than good.
For the upcoming new year, I want to reflect on my goals and what I would like to change. I've been thinking a lot lately about what I want my public presence to be like and how I want to focus on that more. Especially trying to blend in-person things with my online presence. Here are my thoughts so far:
We live in an era where it's easier than ever to spread our message, but with this comes its drawbacks; it's also a time where it's easier than ever for our enemies to intimidate us. Instead of spitting in our faces, they have the luxury of cursing us out over the internet. Instead of stalking us and threatening the places we live, they dox us and tell the whole world who we really are. And instead of throwing hands in-person, all they have to do is tell us that they would if they could, and that's enough to put us into hiding.