Education about safe sex and pregnancy prevention! Education about safe queer sex! Education about active consent and coercion! Education about physical, emotional, and sexual abuse without using scare tactics! Education about pornography!
In fact, fuck it, hereās some links if there are any teens following me:
Sexplanations is another one that goes more into mechanics, kink, as well as more great examples of what consent is & isnt, coercion, abuse, and real stories about these topics that donāt match what you may have seen in school or media.
iāve said it once and iāll say it again.Ā queer people need to trust other queer people.Ā Ā
donāt question someone elseās labels.Ā TRUST that theyāve done that already.Ā if they ask you for advice, fine, but DO NOT go in swinging.Ā donāt go up to a straight trans man and ask why he doesnāt identify as a lesbian.Ā donāt talk to non-binary people and tell them that their identity is a sham if they donāt transition.Ā donāt ask bi people when theyāre going to pick a side.Ā donātĀ assume thatĀ someone who is ace isĀ justĀ repulsed by their own internalized homophobia.
like just⦠have respect for your fellow lgbtq+ folks because there are so few of us in an OCEAN of hetero-cisnormativity.Ā we donāt have to chip away at each other until only the Cardinal Few remain.Ā there is no reason that we canāt have space for the people who question, the people who change their minds, the people who dip a toe in and pull back out.Ā i am HERE for those people, just as much as i am HERE for the people who can write a dissertation on their attraction and knew from the moment they were born that they were Hella Gay.Ā Ā
there is nothing simple about self-discovery and frankly, iām not here on this earth long enough to scrutinize my fellow marginalized peoples.Ā thereās no reason to do that shit.Ā it does not, in fact, hurtĀ queer people toĀ be wholly acceptingĀ of any wayward identity.Ā non-dysphoric?Ā demi-gray-ace as hell?Ā donāt care, as long asĀ youāre fighting on my side, because iām fighting on yours.