For LGBT people in China, sexuality is part, not all, of who they are as their familial role and national identity take precedence. What they want most is love and acceptance, not pride parades.
I'm torn between "All assimilationists can go to hell" and "This isn't really my wheelhouse so that's fine, the means of gaining a foothold aren't gonna necessarily look the same in two different places that need to approach the issue in very different ways"
Part of the reason I like pride as a breakaway culture is that it functions as a sort of dual power - Lets me find community and partake in institutions that very pointedly aren't beholden to heavily conservative, often very christian American cultural norms. At the best of times, hanging around these circles is a glimpse of what my life would be like if I wasn't subject to the local cultural hegemons.
the idea that someone might genuinely not be irreparably disgusted with their own country's culture, and in fact might actively want to participate in it or even identify with it, is admittedly borderline eldritch to me.
the idea that someone might genuinely not be irreparably disgusted with their own country’s culture, and in fact might actively want to participate in it or even identify with it, is admittedly borderline eldritch to me.
honestly bars. I see nothing worth salvaging or uplifting in Amerikan culture and that's like 99% because I turn to actual Black culture rather than the filed-serial-number black caricature that Amerika exports to the rest of the world.
I'm torn between "All assimilationists can go to hell" and "This isn't really my wheelhouse so that's fine, the means of gaining a foothold aren't gonna necessarily look the same in two different places that need to approach the issue in very different ways"
Part of the reason I like pride as a breakaway culture is that it functions as a sort of dual power - Lets me find community and partake in institutions that very pointedly aren't beholden to heavily conservative, often very christian American cultural norms. At the best of times, hanging around these circles is a glimpse of what my life would be like if I wasn't subject to the local cultural hegemons.
the idea that someone might genuinely not be irreparably disgusted with their own country's culture, and in fact might actively want to participate in it or even identify with it, is admittedly borderline eldritch to me.
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honestly bars. I see nothing worth salvaging or uplifting in Amerikan culture and that's like 99% because I turn to actual Black culture rather than the filed-serial-number black caricature that Amerika exports to the rest of the world.