Why Is Queer Discourse so Toxic?

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Social media has broken LGBTQ discourse. Can we fix it?

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Rabbit holes:
Black Trans Archive https://blacktransarchive.com/
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project https://www.lib.umn.edu/collections/s...
Queer Zine Archive Project https://archive.qzap.org/index.php/Sp...

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Thanks to Maddie Harney for talking to me about the early queer internet. Her Twitter is here:   / lisaquestions  

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Sources & further reading:
Washington Post article on gay bar closures https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-...
Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries zine, with several pieces by Sylvia Rivera https://transreads.org/wp-content/upl...
Stone Butch Blues PDF https://lesliefeinberg.net/wp-content...
Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780...
The DSM-5 and depathologization https://www.thetaskforce.org/invalida...
ICD-11 and depathologization https://tgeu.org/icd-11-depathologize...

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Table of contents:
0:00 Why are we like this?
01:32 Awful
11:37 Atomized
16:57 Amnesic
26:38 Repair?