Promoted the other mod to an admin.
I am now leaving. If anyone wants to co-mod, let him know.
— Creator of this blog
With as much as I’ve been neglecting this blog, I want to hand it over to someone else.
:/
There is another mod, but I think he may have forgotten that he has posting access.
TL;DR is: I’m looking for someone to replace me in running this, or it shuts down (well, there’s the other mod who hasn’t posted - so it’ll still be up, but possibly no posts will ever happen again).
I created this blog almost a year ago (September 14, I think) and I’m getting pretty tired of running it. My relationship with queercore (and “radical queer” culture in general) has become more and more awkward and troubled over time (I’m not going to go into detail, but it’s disability-related, I’m Autistic and I severely underestimated the effect that that has on my life. You can blame the conflation of my behavior with the way my mind works, my being “indistinguishable from my peers” - which I’m sure as fuck not - doesn’t change my wiring, and I didn’t recognize that until this year) to the point that I’ve moved away from really engaging in it.
I was basically trying to be a nondisabled queer person, but being disabled modifies my experience of being queer to the point where it’s all quite awkward. I stopped making my zine (Dildo Machine) after the second issue because I realized it wasn’t any good, that it was so awkward because I was approaching it from an angle that was incredibly unnatural to me - I was trying to make it from a perspective that was not mine, and is alien to my own.
Nowadays I’m much happier in the disability rights movement, and doing things related to that, and while I’m not giving up on queercore and queer politics or anything (I’m likely to do stuff about it from a disabled perspective, like Nomy Lamm seems to), I can’t really relate to it in the same way as most people / the way I was basically pretending to.
— Eric
ETA: I lied, I did go into detail. :P
This needs a question mark?
(reblogging for the daytime crowd, this blog will not go on unless I am replaced)
kitchenknivesandcherrybombs asked: can we submit songs/stuff?
Yes, totally! :)
With as much as I’ve been neglecting this blog, I want to hand it over to someone else.
:/
There is another mod, but I think he may have forgotten that he has posting access.
TL;DR is: I’m looking for someone to replace me in running this, or it shuts down (well, there’s the other mod who hasn’t posted - so it’ll still be up, but possibly no posts will ever happen again).
I created this blog almost a year ago (September 14, I think) and I’m getting pretty tired of running it. My relationship with queercore (and “radical queer” culture in general) has become more and more awkward and troubled over time (I’m not going to go into detail, but it’s disability-related, I’m Autistic and I severely underestimated the effect that that has on my life. You can blame the conflation of my behavior with the way my mind works, my being “indistinguishable from my peers” - which I’m sure as fuck not - doesn’t change my wiring, and I didn’t recognize that until this year) to the point that I’ve moved away from really engaging in it.
I was basically trying to be a nondisabled queer person, but being disabled modifies my experience of being queer to the point where it’s all quite awkward. I stopped making my zine (Dildo Machine) after the second issue because I realized it wasn’t any good, that it was so awkward because I was approaching it from an angle that was incredibly unnatural to me - I was trying to make it from a perspective that was not mine, and is alien to my own.
Nowadays I’m much happier in the disability rights movement, and doing things related to that, and while I’m not giving up on queercore and queer politics or anything (I’m likely to do stuff about it from a disabled perspective, like Nomy Lamm seems to), I can’t really relate to it in the same way as most people / the way I was basically pretending to.
— Eric
ETA: I lied, I did go into detail. :P
This needs a question mark?
WHY THE HELL ARE YOU IN MY “QUEERCORE” TAG?!
idgi
Something like 80% of the tracked tag is made up of Limp Wrist… which I dislike, but to each xyr own, not everyone has my auditory issues… though still, it’s kind of sad to see the lack of variety, Fifth Column are great and there’s so much more :/
Anyway, I apologize for the lack of real posts here, I haven’t had anything to post for a while and have been otherwise occupied. And there’s nothing to reblog. Arglebargle.
"we are angry with those awful people at Queer Nation … They stole our word. While there is few o.k. individuals at Queer Nation, they are for the most part clones in queer’s clothing"
— G.B. Jones and Jena von Brücker, in Bimbox
"The collapse of Queer Nation is often taken as an example of the failure of queer/transgression as a whole, though the organization in fact had no connection to the queer zine ethos, simply appropriating the term ‘queer’ for what was essentially just a more militant take on the usual gay reformist agenda. The extent of the organization’s separation from real queer culture is illustrated by their sending a death threat to Denis Cooper, a hero to queer zinesters. But it was this movement that came to represent queer in the popular imagination, the result being, as Bruce LaBruce has pointed out, that ‘the Queer Nation sensibility and aesthetic merged with what (zinesters) were doing and watered it down.’ Unlike the queer zinesters wholesale rejection of society, the new militancy was easily assimilable into gay culture…"
— Toby Manning
(Canada being where queercore began)
Also:
(I should say that though LaBruce has been indispensable in bringing radical sexual codes and queer desire to a larger audience, albeit with mixed results, his never changing on-screen persona has been known to inspire tedium in a grassroots suspicious of the kind of self-aggrandizement and over-exposure he cultivates.)
It’s no secret that I dislike LaBruce, and this is one of the big reasons (I have others that are harder to discuss).
