#we don’t need Good Representation or wholesome ambassadors. Our fiction shouldn’t be an embassy

[briarrolfe]

Whenever something is an “unapologetic representation of queerness” it means two skinny white cisboys will make out and fade to black in a world where homophobia is not real. So where is the apologetic queer representation, because only stories where danger is real and trans people fuck can make it up to me

#queer representation #I always wonder who the apology is supposed to be towards. like what’s an apologetic representation… is it in the room with us right now #if you are thinking of it as representation then you’ve already decided the queers in the fiction have to be Representatives. Hm! To whom! #we don’t need Good Representation or wholesome ambassadors. Our fiction shouldn’t be an embassy #queer fiction should refuse to consider a straight audience at all imo. Including ‘this is who I’m not apologising to’ #queer corner #writing essays on tumblr dot com