I recently replied to an anon question about “mspec lesbians” and “bi lesbians.” I’ve since learned that there is a larger context regarding the terms, of which I was unaware. It was wrong of me to post an ill-informed reply, and I apologize. 

I did a small amount of research before replying, and also talked to several queer friends about the terms. They hadn’t heard of them before either, so they weren’t able to give me a full picture. I wish I had done more research and better understood what I was discussing before making a reply. 

Here is the main addition I have to that original post: 

• If these terms exists only in the minds of transphobes, that’s fucked up and bad. 

That said, my position is basically the same as before:

• if people do identify with these terms, they are welcome to, and it is not my place to police them. I support them and their identities.
• If these terms exists because of transphobes but is now something that real people use to describe their identities, that’s really complicated and still not my place to police anyone else’s identities.
  
• policing lesbian identities is often transphobic and sets of red flags for me
• that policing bi identities is often biphobic and sets of red flags for me 
  

I might add more later, but that is all for now. More discussion can be found on this post I made including a number of asks and replies I received following the original post. 

I’ve turned off asks and have limited replies for now. Thank you to all of you who sent thoughtful replies and asks explaining your point of view, I appreciate it a lot. Even if we have a different take on this, I’m glad you felt comfortable sharing yours. 

I’m finally getting started on replying to all your messages and replies! It will be slow going and I won’t be going in chronological (or any other kind) of order. I’m not sure yet if I’ll be posting them as I write them or spacing them out, it depends how fast I go. 

Hopefully this will give me the momentum to start making new posts, too! Ideally I’ll have new posts mixed in with queued replies, but we’ll see. I have a lot on my plate right now and I want working on this blog to be fun break from all that, rather than another stressful obligation. 

artificial-lust:

every tumblr user: despite the fact that no one views or cares about my blog, i will continue to spend the majority of my life updating it

Goodmorning!✨

It’s a new week and I hope that it’s kind to each and everyone of you!

I love you and am rooting for you!

You can do this!

Alright, I better roll out a few posts, so yall know I’m not bullshittin’ with this blog!

Hello all, I decided to make a new blog dedicated to facials. My main blog is ganguponher, which I hope you guys still visit regularly! Will begin the posting onslaught when I have time!