Here are some team Canada textposts as promised. I’ve legit been sitting on the chloe ones for months, so glad to finally use them. I know there are more team USA ones to come so there probably will be more team Canada posts.
I’m curious about the Caitvi snippets from various AUs you have been sharing here and there: are they all part of stories you are developing and wish to post on AO3 eventually?
I will admit I’m asking this because I love all the different AUs you’ve shared so far and I always hope to read more about them!
That being said, I hope this doesn’t come off as pressuring because it’s not my intention at all. You should only write and share what you want, and in any case I’m always glad to read more of your writing. :)
And I might love the way you write Caitvi, but I also really liked what you shared about your fantasy oc and I would love to read more of that story too!
Have a nice day!
thank you for the interest! truthfully, i’m very flighty and i’ve learned that hoarding my AUs like a vengeful dragon doesn’t really satisfy me in the long run. i think i have close to a million and a half words right now in various google docs and they’re all collecitng dust, so every now and again i need to share some to kinda let the pressure out, if that makes sense
the au’s that stand the best chance of being completed are killing kind, the death of me, and the mafia AU. i’ve got a cyberpunk thing that’s getting DISTRESSINGLY long, and a really cool popstar AU thing that I wanna share here eventually because i’m so fucking proud of the way i wrote the intro, but all the other AUs are mostly just - humming away in my microwave brain lmao
i don’t feel pressure at all! I’m tickled that it’s resonated. the fantasy OC is cool in that it’s taking a shape now - her name is Adel and she’s Fucked Up.
were the sumprats’ colors inspired by any specific team? not sure if anyone answered this yet!
the toronto raptors! my hometown team of my heart. god bless you kawhi leonard. we will never forget you demar derozan.
basketball was my first sports love and it’s still my strongest sports love, but hockey was so cultural and weird and delicious that i felt really good about talking about it for a long long time.
The LGBTQ community has seen controversy regarding acceptance of different groups (bisexual and transgender individuals have sometimes been marginalized by the larger community), but the term LGBT has been a positive symbol of inclusion and reflects the embrace of different identities and that we’re stronger together and need each other. While there are differences, we all face many of the same challenges from broader society.
In the 1960′s, in wider society the meaning of the word gay transitioned from ‘happy’ or ‘carefree’ to predominantly mean ‘homosexual’ as they adopted the word as was used by homosexual men, except that society also used it as an umbrella term that meant anyone who wasn’t cisgender or heterosexual. The wider queer community embraced the word ‘gay’ as a mark of pride.
The modern fight for queer rights is considered to have begun with The Stonewall Riots in 1969 and was called the Gay Liberation Movement and the Gay Rights Movement.
The acronym GLB surfaced around this time to also include Lesbian and Bisexual people who felt “gay” wasn’t inclusive of their identities.
Early in the gay rights movement, gay men were largely the ones running the show and there was a focus on men’s issues. Lesbians were unhappy that gay men dominated the leadership and ignored their needs and the feminist fight. As a result, lesbians tended to focus their attention on the Women’s Rights Movement which was happening at the same time. This dominance by gay men was seen as yet one more example of patriarchy and sexism.
In the 1970′s, sexism and homophobia existed in more virulent forms and those biases against lesbians also made it hard for them to find their voices within women’s liberation movements. Betty Friedan, the founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW), commented that lesbians were a “lavender menace” that threatened the political efficacy of the organization and of feminism and many women felt including lesbians was a detriment.
In the 80s and 90s, a huge portion of gay men were suffering from AIDS while the lesbian community was largely unaffected. Lesbians helped gay men with medical care and were a massive part of the activism surrounding the gay community and AIDS. This willingness to support gay men in their time of need sparked a closer, more supportive relationship between both groups, and the gay community became more receptive to feminist ideals and goals.
Approaching the 1990′s it was clear that GLB referred to sexual identity and wasn’t inclusive of gender identity and T should be added, especially since trans activist have long been at the forefront of the community’s fight for rights and acceptance, from Stonewall onward. Some argued that T should not be added, but many gay, lesbian and bisexual people pointed out that they also transgress established gender norms and therefore the GLB acronym should include gender identities and they pushed to include T in the acronym.
GLBT became LGBT as a way to honor the tremendous work the lesbian community did during the AIDS crisis.
Towards the end of the 1990s and into the 2000s, movements took place to add additional letters to the acronym to recognize Intersex, Asexual, Aromantic, Agender, and others. As the acronym grew to LGBTIQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIAA, many complained this was becoming unwieldy and started using a ‘+’ to show LGBT aren’t the only identities in the community and this became more common, whether as LGBT+ or LGBTQ+.
In the 2010′s, the process of reclaiming the word “queer” that began in the 1980′s was largely accomplished. In the 2020′s the LGBTQ+ acronym is used less often as Queer is becoming the more common term to represent the community.
