Thread by @stimmyskye

I think a lot about those different archetypes of queer people. you know the ones.

the handy queer who fixes everyone's pipes and furniture.

the baking queer who always brings a cake or cookies.

the knitting queer who gives everyone hats and arm warmers.

the gardening queer who will trade seeds with you.

the artist queer who draws everyone's profile pictures.

the IT queer who can definitely fix your computer if you supply coffee.

the photographer queer who will take the best pictures of you.

and then it struck me that all these things are about providing for your community, either for free or for an extremely low price.

and then I started wondering why the fuck it is so unusual in this society to have providing for your community be a central trait of your person

I can think of so many more but they're all like this.

The gamedev queer who spends all their time making super queer video games.

The writer queer who tries to make a living writing the queerest books ever.

The jewellery or crafts queer who makes everything in pride flags.

A lot of these end up being artistic work for the obvious reasons of poverty and opportunity, but none of them are the "make shitty art and a ton of money" kind of art, they're all aiming to give something to the community that is needed.

Representation, joy, connection.

This is by no means unique to the queer community. From what I see, this is how all communities function that are formed to provide their members some respite from the rest of society.

Which makes me wonder who and what the fuck is the rest of society

Because that ends up being actually a minority. Racialised people, disabled people, neurodivergent people, queer people, it seems like almost everyone is part of some group that works to mitigate the hostile social climate created and enforced by a powerful minority