The fediverse has some potential advantages for activism on topics like privacy, digital rights, and LGBTQIA2S+ issues. So it’s worth experimenting, and the July 20-28 week of action on Bad Internet Bills is a great opportunity – to learn, and hopefully to have an impact as well.
Here’s 4 easy things you can do:
- Boost posts on #BadInternetBills and #KOSA hashtags
- Upvote and boost posts in the Bad Internet Bills Lemmy Community and kbin magazine
- Get the word out on other social networks too
- If you live in the US, contact your legislators using Fight for the Future’s
CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Wtf is a “LGBTQIA2S+”?
WHY DOES A FUCKING ACRONYM NEED TO GET LONGER AND LONGER?!? WHY?
db2@lemmy.one 11 months ago
I think the A is for asexual… like why tf would someone not interested in sexuality care. At a certain point it’s just summertime wanting attention and I think we passed it a few characters ago. Before you, gentle reader, get upset see it for yourself… these come from Google search, obvious joke ones were ignored:
LGBT
LGBTQ
LGBTQ+ <- this is literally all inclusive, no need to go further
LGBTQ2 (“two spirit”… aka furries)
LGBTQIA+ (longest “official” acronym)
LGBTQIA2S+
LGBTQIAAP+
LGBTQIAGNC
LGBTQQIP2SAA
LGBTIQCAPGNGFNBA+
If that doesn’t make it obvious I’ll leave you with a quote from Peter Tatchell:
spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Yo just so you know two spirit has nothing to do with furries. It usually refers to gender nonconforming traditions in indigenous american communities and has largely come into favor in Canada as part of recent campaigns to recognize tribal communities. I think you’re thinking of “otherkin” who are not generally included under the LGBTQ umbrella.
Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wouldn’t we want to have it as easy to pronounce/write/remember as possible? I feel like even the people involved are not taking this seriously by making it longer and longer. It surely looks like more like a joke that way.
another_lemming@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This came to a logical problem of naming a coalition by several group names’ initials. And a very loose one at that. I felt the same about the flag updates.
It is a conclusion to what they stand for and why they are created – to get united under one banner to be seen – but at the same time it counters that in how it is disunited in these exact banners, also to be seen and recognized but individually. And a rainbow flag, iirc, wasn’t meant to mean something by each colour in it, lol.
I feel like switching to the name and a flag that don’t include that self-expansion and would just stay the same would be better – but then I catch myself realizing it is nothing other than creating another acronym\flag and asking to be argued by those who promoted these expansion for I deny their effort to gain visibility.
Shit’s a mess.
golamas1999@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Instead of people fighting over letters maybe Pride Community.
fearout@kbin.social 11 months ago
Yeah, I think that at this point there should just be an established term, not an ever-expanding acronym. Like an actual pronounceable word. Is there one besides "queer"?
Could something-divergent work? Like neurodivergent/neurotypical, that became more well-known in recent years. I kinda like those.
redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Why not just *
thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
There’s actually a footnote in the article about that!
I’m using LGBTQIA2S+ as a shorthand for lesbian, gay, gender non-conforming, genderqueer, bi, trans, queer, intersex, asexual, agender, two-sprit, and others who are not straight, cis, and heteronormative. Julia Serrano’s trans, gender, sexuality, and activism glossary has definitions for most of terms, although resources like OACAS Library Guides’ Two-spirit identities page go into a lot more detail. Serrano also discusses the tensions between ever-growing and always incomplete acronyms and more abstract terms like “gender and sexual minorities”. There’s a Mastodon instance called lgbtqia.space, and Indigenous people are often overlooked in the fediverse, so I decided to go with the acronym despite its problems.
CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Im indigenous as well, just a German indigenous person…
That “acronym” is nothing but idiotic, the longer it gets the more ridiculous it is.
match@pawb.social 11 months ago
because it’s funny