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I watched Millions of Dead Genders: A MOGAI Retrospective before I left on my trip and it's been going through my head a lot.
One thing the old tumblr approach did to identity was just make millions of them and assign them to people when they were at their starting points. Saying to someone who is just starting to explore identity that 'you feel x, here is your label, your flag, you are valid and don't tolerate people questioning that' kind of freezes people where they are. This video really clarified for me some of the ways I found 2010s tumblr, allegedly such a thriving center of LBGTIA+ community, baffling and aggro. As the video said, it's a very 'incurious' way to approach identity.
It's also not good for community building to atomize identity that much. Also, her ending points about the internet in general are very good. Anyway, it's a really good video on online queer community.
One thing the old tumblr approach did to identity was just make millions of them and assign them to people when they were at their starting points. Saying to someone who is just starting to explore identity that 'you feel x, here is your label, your flag, you are valid and don't tolerate people questioning that' kind of freezes people where they are. This video really clarified for me some of the ways I found 2010s tumblr, allegedly such a thriving center of LBGTIA+ community, baffling and aggro. As the video said, it's a very 'incurious' way to approach identity.
It's also not good for community building to atomize identity that much. Also, her ending points about the internet in general are very good. Anyway, it's a really good video on online queer community.
