(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!!! 🌙🌙🌸
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.
[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]
Shout out to mspecs with less mainstream labels - if you’re ply/omni/heteroflexible/homoflexible/bicurious or just plain unlabelled mspec, or if you use the SAM to define your mspec identity this one’s for you
More heart emojis!
Bi ♡ Pan ♡ Poly ♡ Omni
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