akstatic:

I couldn’t have said it better myself. Have I mentioned I adore Erika Moen? Not only is she a fabulous illustrator and comic artist but her writing about sexuality and relationships really helped me understand myself better as I was transitioning from adolescence into adulthood.

(via Erika Moen » Queer)

This is great. Though I generally don’t like the term “queer” myself for several reasons, I felt like sharing this. 

For those interested enough, here are my reasons:

1) queer is a normal English word and I don’t want it to lose its meaning outside of the LGBT context.

2) from a linguistic sense, “queer” indicates something weird or abnormal. While I think the point of this cartoon and many other things is in fact that there is nothing weird or abnormal about gender fluidity. There are no such things as “normal” and “abnormal”, only “conventional” and “unconventional”. While queer can also indicate “unconventional”, the case still stands: why point out the “unconventionality” of something when you could stress the “normalcy”.

Just my train of thought here.