Happy Pride 2025!!!

[MissinTooth]

@Jynx I feel weird about sharing...having a moment. Apparently the topic is difficult because it's triggering...so I'm trying to work through it at the moment. It's noone's fault and I'm actually thankful you tagged me. Slow and steady and gently though...

Umm...questioning my sexuality. I have been for a while. I don't feel like I'm straight, but I don't know how to process that with my past experiences. It feels so...complicated. 

Here is the place for me to start feeling safe in that though. 

[Appleblossom]

@Jynx Regarding Mad Pride it has mostly been online searching, in the last 10 years, and loving the movements in Europe, UK and MadinAmerica. Feeling huge at oneness with the cause.

I carried so much shame, whether it was from poverty, or being state ward, or parents and siblings in psych wards. In a way I was more invisible cos I was just a visitor. Mad pride, flips the script. I don’t want it to distract from this thread though, cos I think that’s complicated enough. Maybe food for thought for another discussion.

[Till23]

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[Jynx]

Honestly @MissinTooth sometimes labels are only useful as ways of explaining to others -  for me, there's no one label that is going to 100% fit. I use 'non-binary' but sometimes I feel genderqueer. Sometimes I feel trans masc. Similarly I identify as grey asexual because asexual doesn't fully fit but nor do I feel allosexual. I also identify as demisexual and pansexual but have sapphic leanings. 

Did that all make sense or did I just overload you with queer jargon? LOL point is that if you feel in any way 'not cis-het' then you belong here 😊

@Appleblossom would you wanna make a thread about it? More than welcome to do so, I'd love to hear your experiences and I think talking about the intersectionality of marginalised identities is VERY important!! Like legit, the intersection of queerness and madness (tho not described as such in the context) was actually a theme that popped up at our recent staff conference as something the organisation is passionate about!

[The-red-centaur]

Happy pride wonderful people. 

With love from you gender divergent queer. 

[MissinTooth]

@Jynx makes sense. I don't know all of the labels or the jargon, but I am more then willing to learn.  I don't feel cis-het. I've always had issues with labels and don't sit comfortable with being labelled, so I've tried not to label myself but be open to possibilities. I hope that makes sense?

[Jynx]

Aww ty @The-red-centaur 😍💜

Sure does @MissinTooth! In fact I think you've touched on something that hits really close to home for me, which is that I think human beings are so much more rich and complex than any label could possibly ever describe. To even try to put us wholly into categories of 'male' and 'female' is to deny the infinite scape of possibilities that exist in between the binary.  

[MissinTooth]

@Jynx what an awesome conversation to have...

I just don't want to be put in a box and told that I have to be a certain way and feel a certain way. I just want to 'be' and to be able to be me whatever that entails....whoever that person is. 

I don't have to admit that it makes it hard to define me, to put my finger on where I sit in this space of diverse genders and sexualities. 

[Jynx]

Haha weirdly enough @MissinTooth I was reading an interview with a trans guy in Time magazine and he said 'It felt like I'd been put into a box that I never felt I fit into' - and it was THIS that cracked my egg (a saying in the trans community; prior to coming out you're an egg, and realising you're trans is your egg cracking). I came out as non binary like, the next week 😅

I don't really feel like I even have  a gender most days. So I can relate to what you're saying for sure!! 

[Appleblossom]

 @Jynx  @MissinTooth  @The-red-centaur @Dreamy I only think I am a gender some of the time. A very small portion of he time.