Inclusion and exclusion in radical queer communities

[firecat]

This is a really interesting piece of writing, discussing the ways that radical queer communities can become insular based on geography and/or race and/or class and/or appearance markers, and how that tendency prevents us from creating more powerful sociopolitical movements.

"Is 'The Bay' An Island? How Fetishizing the Bay Area Hurts Our Movements and Communities:
A Conversation Starter!" by Savannah Kilner

http://thebayisnotanisland.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html

Comments

[gmdreia.livejournal.com]

Oh and this... I'm actually more concerned with Jewish issues and anti-Semitism than with queer issues. Which makes me a "bad lesbian". ;)

Oh, and I also look like a girl.

The funny part is, it *is* a lot of the antiracism/appropriation dialogue that made me drop out of "alternative culture" and come to resemble more a stereotypical middle class white person who crawled out of the primordial ooze wearing khaki and holding a cell phone. Actually, what it forced me to be was more creative... I tend to appropriate from the past of my own culture (retro style), though that in and of itself has its own problems because the eras themselves were more racially divided. But past a certain point, nothing's safe anyway.