fucking wild to simultaneously be living through a cultural moment where the middle class has absorbed the language of very milquetoast queer identification (pronouns in your zoom profile everyone or whatever) + certain modes of queerness have become more and more profitable as we cede more and more of our language and history to hegemonic forces of production, and the noose around bodily autonomy and gender presentation and the immediate safety of queer people both at the state and social level is tightening every single day. almost like assimilation & respectability politics were never going to save us and only functioned as a conduit for hypervisibility coming down hardest on the most vulnerable and unassimilable of us, or something.