(mspec: short for multi-spectrum attraction, umbrella term for any sexualities for 2+ genders)
♡ also happy mspec lesbian visibility/awareness week!!! 🌙🌙🌸
@bi-lesbian / bi-lesbian.tumblr.com
(mspec: short for multi-spectrum attraction, umbrella term for any sexualities for 2+ genders)
♡ also happy mspec lesbian visibility/awareness week!!! 🌙🌙🌸
[Image Description: the meme of two arms embraced at the hand. White all caps text edited on the left arm reading “pan people”, on the locked hands reading “having a historic place in the community and being valid as fuck”, and on the right arm reading “mspec lesbians and gays”. End Description.]
some solidarity and love between pan people and mspec lesbians and gays is needed, because we’re both very hated and debated.
we are here. we have been here. we will always be here. loud, ignorant voices will not erase our history or place in the community.
much love to mspec lesbians and gays from this pansexual 💛💛
Well, it's pride month and there's gonna be a bunch of posts like this floating around but I figure I'd go ahead and write up a post negating the TERF and exclusionist beliefs, since all of this discourse is going to come back this month.
I'm sure there are things I've forgotten - important things. The fact that I genuinely cannot remember all the facets of queer discourse is distressing. The amount of TERF dogwhistles that have infiltrated community conversations is disheartening and the constant intracommunity fighting is doing their work for them. We are together as a rallied front against bigotry, so introducing bigotry into our community only weakens us and leaves us open to more abuse. Take up hands with your fellow queers, and realize we have far more in common than we do different.
if you have had exceptions to your sexuality or have extremely rare attraction to certain genders, its okay to label yourself with the inclusion of those exceptions or not- whatever you feel best with describing yourself with is valid.
labels are about how you want to describe your attraction, and how youd like to communicate to others who youre attracted to.
some people dont want to give the impression they like a certain gender if they only very rarely like a few people of that gender. putting a label that says youre interested in men on a dating site, when youre extremely likely to not like any of them, probably isnt very useful.
some may get crushes on people of a certain gender sometimes- but if they ever actively go looking for a relationship, its never really people of that gender, so they typically dont use the label that includes them.
some people think the exceptions to their sexuality are significant, and thus want to specify it in their identity. maybe they use a more general label, or maybe they use a label thats more specific, that explicitly states who theyre more likely to like.
labels arent about ''oh, i check off this list of requirements, so i have to use only this label and nothing else." theyre not prescribed to you based on your experiences with attraction and dating. theyre things you choose to use if you want to, for how youd best like to put your attraction into words.
I think it's really great when bi people figure themselves out and decide to use other labels in addition to bi! You're bi and identify with being gay or lesbian? Amazing! You're bi and also think queer is a good fit for you? Cool! You're bi and also pansexual? Beautiful! Your bi but prefer labels like fluid or flexible? Fantastic! There is no one way to bi.
[ID: a series of pride banners with abstract backgrounds that resemble the different flag colours that say: "lesbian and proud, gay and proud, bisexual and proud, trans and proud, pansexual and proud, asexual and proud, aromantic and proud, aroace and proud, questioning and proud, intersex and proud." End ID]
Feel free to use with credit and to request more! (I'll add some other banners in a reblog since I can't add more than 10 images to the post)
[ID: some more banners that say: nonbinary and proud, agender and proud, demisexual and proud, polyamorous and proud, genderfluid and proud, genderqueer and proud. End ID]
[ID: a fresh batch of banners that read: "polysexual and proud, omnisexual and proud, demiromantic and proud, queer and proud, closeted but proud, bigender and proud, pangender and proud, genderflux and proud, demigirl and proud, demiboy and proud. End ID]
[ID: two more banners that say "graysexual and proud, grayromantic and proud". End ID]
[ID: two banners that read "androgyne and proud, maverique and proud". End ID]
[ID: banners that read: "bi lesbian and proud, trans lesbian and proud, nonbinary lesbian and proud, omni lesbian and proud, ace lesbian and proud, pan lesbian and proud, ply lesbian and proud. End ID]
Could you make a series of ace/romantic orientation flags and/or a set of aro/sexuality flags? For example, pan/ace flag, aro/lesbian flag. If they already exist could you link me to them please? Thanks in advance 😊
idk if i wanna take flag requests, but maybe in the future i will idk! it may be fun to make my own of these sometime if i feel like it! anyways i searched around tho and found:
aro/pan ♡ ace/pan
i wasnt able to find ones for ply and omni.. but if anyone knows of any for those or alts for the ones i already have feel free to lmk and i can add em on this!
and for the aro pan one i could only find an image on google images that listed it was aro pan but it linked to a site called tumgir that like. didnt even have it posted. and reverse image search only brought to there too fhdkjc shrug ! idk who may have made it, but the image still exists from google, so i linked straight to just the image itself. maybe the op can be found sometime :O edit: actually it seems that its a butch lesbian flag made aroaesflags, so im not sure why it showed up as aro pan when i searched around... so ig i dont have one for that either :O
Flags “Mermaid Merveille" edits for sapphics. I might make more.
Any discourse on this post will get you blocked on the spot.
They’re on Redbubble too! Lesbian/Sappho lesbian/Bi lesbian/Bi/Pan lesbian/Pan.
just making sure y'all know that I'm radically queer and inclusive. some things this includes:
guess who just followed me? I want to make sure they know they're not welcome. it's 2020, intolerance isn't cool anymore.
LGBT+ flags “Angel wings” edits. Just because I can.
I put them on Redbubble!
More heart emojis!
Bi ♡ Pan ♡ Poly ♡ Omni
Polyam flags in the colors of other flags using the design by @whimsy-flags
pride peridot! first set with the ol LGBT acronym lads, featuring uh, a lot of lesbian versions bc idk what one were going for these days bfkdhfkz and i made an orange/red version bc i really wanted to complete the trio of color combos for the current colors used-
pls see the notes for my reblogs with more flags! theyre mostly identities i fall under but feel free to ask for any ones i havent done!
+ bonus template :3
Ace - Nonbinary - Agender
Bigender - Genderfluid - Demigirl
the italicize ones are ones i made owo !
Bi Lesbian - Feminenby - Fae/Lov Pronouns
Genderfae - Cupio - Lesbienby
Polyam - Polyam by @heckscaper - Polyam by @whimsy-flags
(heckscaper seems to be on private now so the link may not work!)
then finally, various flags related to femromantic/sexual or similar terms! third one is an older flag i made for bi lesbian, the rest are not mine
both are Fem-
Bi Lesbian • Fin- • Venus-
both are Woma/Woman-
time for more!
Pan - Poly - Omni
Aro - Demisexual - Demiromantic
no one can decide what is valid or not for other peoples identities.
no one can create the rules for peoples personal experiences with their gender, sexuality, or anything.
the existence of one identity is not an invalidator for another identity in any shape or form.
people can define themselves in whatever feels most comfortable by their own ideas and relationships with words.
if you dont like someones identity and how they express themselves, its never okay to invalidate them and yell your thoughts on their own identity at them.
its not your place.
its never your place.