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Jul. 2nd, 2009 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiercelydreamedI just found out about vidorama's policy of excluding slash vids, via thingswithwings's eloquent and angry response. There's a bunch of debate happening, much of which you guys are probably better up-to-date on than I am, but I thought about it and decided: you know what, I could argue about this, or I could throw a party.
Guess which I picked.
I've set up![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
queerlygen as a place to host a festival of gen fanworks featuring queer and genderqueer characters. It's going to take me a couple weeks to get organized and figure out how to do this thing right, but in the meantime, I wanted to pass the word on to those of you who are likewise sick of arguing and fond of parties. I've put up a mission statement post to give you some idea what it'll be about:
Here's the thing. For many of us who are queer, we're queer all the time. We're queer when we're grocery-shopping. We're trans when we're at the library. We're bisexual when we go on camping trips. We're questioning when we kick ass at kickball tournaments. We're intersex when we face off against our thesis defense committees. We're lesbians when we show up at our straight friends' houses after they've been brutally dumped by some jackass. And we're gay at (and quite possibly for) the dentist.
Drawing a line in the sand between "slash" and "gen" erases the fact that many of us live our daily lives aware of our identities and experiences as queer or genderqueer people. It's not something we only think about when we're falling in love, getting our hearts broken, or getting off. And we, like the queer and genderqueer characters we write, are done being told we can't come to your fan awards, your workplace chili cook-off, your seminary, or your transcontinental backpacking trip. So we're throwing our own, because we're tired of waiting for you to figure out we're the best shortstop who lives on your block.
thingswithwings's eloquent and angry response. There's a bunch of debate happening, much of which you guys are probably better up-to-date on than I am, but I thought about it and decided: you know what, I could argue about this, or I could throw a party.Guess which I picked.
I've set up
queerlygen as a place to host a festival of gen fanworks featuring queer and genderqueer characters. It's going to take me a couple weeks to get organized and figure out how to do this thing right, but in the meantime, I wanted to pass the word on to those of you who are likewise sick of arguing and fond of parties. I've put up a mission statement post to give you some idea what it'll be about:Here's the thing. For many of us who are queer, we're queer all the time. We're queer when we're grocery-shopping. We're trans when we're at the library. We're bisexual when we go on camping trips. We're questioning when we kick ass at kickball tournaments. We're intersex when we face off against our thesis defense committees. We're lesbians when we show up at our straight friends' houses after they've been brutally dumped by some jackass. And we're gay at (and quite possibly for) the dentist.
Drawing a line in the sand between "slash" and "gen" erases the fact that many of us live our daily lives aware of our identities and experiences as queer or genderqueer people. It's not something we only think about when we're falling in love, getting our hearts broken, or getting off. And we, like the queer and genderqueer characters we write, are done being told we can't come to your fan awards, your workplace chili cook-off, your seminary, or your transcontinental backpacking trip. So we're throwing our own, because we're tired of waiting for you to figure out we're the best shortstop who lives on your block.
Like I said, it'll be a little while before anything happens there, because I need to get organized and I may need some help to do it, but I wanted to let you guys know.
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Date: 2009-07-03 12:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-07-03 12:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-07-03 02:40 am (UTC)(And over on the vidorama post, she's still filling out her bingo card: really beside the point I was trying to make, but will now because people keep insisting that I’m homophobic, is that one of my closest friends is a lesbian.)
Sigh. I just...there are just no words that do justice to how tired this all makes me feel. So I think celebrating the ordinariness of life as we *all* live it makes a brilliant kind of sense.
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Date: 2009-07-03 04:55 am (UTC)This looks awesome!
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Date: 2009-07-03 05:23 am (UTC)