transfemcore:

so i might have an angry rant going but.. i want you all to start being more intersectional with things.. because this isn’t good enough.

when you are marginalised in many ways, there will be overlaps of traits, and you will have a specific experience from being multiply marginalised.

very often this will be labelled as intersecting marginalised identities… that is literally what intersectionality means – you recognise that people who are marginalised in multiple ways have a specific unique experience from that.

i’m autistic, and i’m queer. this shapes me and makes my experience among autistic and queer people differently from the straight and allistic people in the respective communities.

additionally, a huge part of autism is not grasping social constructs, and struggling to conform to social and cultural things.. a lot of conceptions of straightness is artificial and cultural.

this means that a large part of my perception of straight society will be impacted by me being autistic. i struggle to relate to others’ experiences, and i find a lot to be performative… and you know, as a queer person – i find it beneficial to think of it this way too.

and i literaly cannot just say that these things are because i’m one of the things.. i’m not autistic sometimes, queer other times.. i’m always autistic and queer.

i have an intersecting marginalised experience.

shitting on people who literally label this intersecting experience, is being dismissive of and not recognising properly that people can be marginalised in multiple ways, and it is not intersectional activism.

so please stop.. and perhaps recognise that reality isn’t always your black-and-white social theories on what lgbt+ is and what disability is.. and perhaps don’t throw people under the bus who already have a hard time fitting into multiple communities.

i see this shit mostly coming from allistic lgbt+ people, and i just want you all to know this is not ok.. and you all are making lgbt+ spaces unsafe and unwelcoming for people who are multiply marginalised with being disabled/nd + lgbt+.