Despite everything, it's still  but not for long lolJul 28, 2023
I've long believed that the crucial advantage of the term "queer" over the acronyms is that it acknowledges that diversity is not something you can exhaustively enumerate. we must be always prepared to embrace diversity that we hadn't considered before. this is the most consistent inclusivity
Show threadTim BrayJul 29, 2023

@lewdum I’ve generally preferred “queer” to LGBTQIA2S+ etc for the same reasons I preferred “Black” to African-American. Short, strong, inclusive.

[Obvs it's their call, not for people like me. But I can applaud.]

Show threadRichard GadsdenJul 29, 2023

@timbray @lewdum Black covers a lot more people than African-American as well. Sometimes it's useful to narrow the view to Americans, but it's better to do that deliberately and consciously.

I still remember the American news announcer describing Nelson Mandela as the first African-American President of South Africa.

Show threadMaggie Maybe
@po8crg @timbray @lewdum I still laugh at my knee-jerk reaction when someone was talking about Elon Musk being an “African American”. Oooh boy.
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