queerpyracy:

I mean, it was inevitable that sooner or later someone was gonna tag one of my posts with ‘q slur’ bc of my url but that didn’t stop me from realizing tonight how very much that pisses me off 

I know that it’s very much  a thing on this site to Never Let Anyone Forget about queer being a slur but y’all

that is how I’ve chosen to identify myself 

the ‘queer’ in my url is self-identifying, it is about by and for Me, A Queer Person, A Person Who Chooses To Identify With The Word Queer, 

I live in an area where I have no community to speak of, no lgbtq friends, I am isolated with a bunch of cis hetero protestants, and I censor myself among those people for their comfort Every Day 

the online space I have carved out for myself is the only place I have right now where I can delight in being queer, where I can celebrate it 

so it really fucking sucks to have total strangers attempt to censor the way I present myself in this space bc it’s not palatable to them 

believe me I am well aware in my every day life that who I am is not palatable to a lot of people

I’m not forcing the label of ‘queer’ on anyone else, it’s entirely about how I am choosing to celebrate my identity, in spite of being in a culture that would shame me for being too different, too overtly queer, and y’all,

you don’t get to take that away from me

if my url bothers you that much don’t reblog from me, bc it’s not your right to remind me that how I exist in this world is unacceptable or not “the right way”