iconoclasticallyqueer:

sad-queer:

Building an Abolitionist Trans & Queer Movement with Everything We’ve Got

from Captive Genders (eds. Stanley and Smith) (2011) by Morgan Bassichis, Alex Lee, and Dean Spade. 

This is pretty accurate. Gay marriage only alleviates these issues for those who 1) get married and 2) whose socio-economic status affords them privileges like health care they can share with a partner, whereas the queer solutions recognise that many of our issues are shared with people outside the queer community with POC, the disabled, women, and other groups (and the queer intersections of those groups) and work to make the situation better for every disadvantaged and oppressed group, not just those we perceive to be just like us – that is, unlike gay marriage which mostly only benefits heteronormative white gays and lesbians, queer resistance (as described here) is concerned about fixing the causes of the problems which intersectionally affect many groups. Gay marriage is a very sloppy patch atop a decayed and amoral system and has been accepted by the mainstream precisely because it doesn’t challenge or upset the status quo. It is patriarchal, white, income-privileged, and aside from normalising sexual relationship between two people of the same gender (so long as they marry!), it does nothing to help single queer people raising children, undocumented queer people, queer people in non-monogamous relationships, queer people in polyamorous relationships, and so on. It is as stodgy and uninnovative a change as could possibly have been made, and that is precisely is why gay marriage because THE solution for achieving gay rights, because it doesn’t actually change anything – it just ever so slightly broadens the privileged caste to include people for whom their sexual orientation was the only thing keeping them out of the clubhouse in the first place.