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Queer Is Not A Slur - A Referenced Response To Lily Orchard

*Transcript & Content Warning* https://docs.google.com/document/d/19-irgHhskSdtdtSm2nMbZXA7RUIq_ToU5HVDhsPAuk8/edit?usp=sharing *Timestamps* The history surrounding the word queer - 2:56 Lily’s claims about the word’s origin don’t check out - 4:38 Queer has had positive connotations - 7:22 How & why queer originally carried negative connotations? - 10:10 When was queer first adopted by the community? - 11:40 Who reclaimed the word queer? - 15:21 What portion of the community today view queer as reclaimed? - 21:44 What groups are most likely to argue against queer as an umbrella? - 23:46 Why bigots hate queer as a label - 25:24 Lily’s demands harm queer people - 33:30 Lily’s double standard on the word queer - 35:09 Proving queer doesn’t erase or obscure other identities - 36:49 Lily’s demands could easily hurt the entire community - 41:14 Reasons to use queer as an umbrella term - 42:47 Lily strawmanned her opposition from the start - 43:45 Lily uses false comparisons to bolster her case - 47:05 Queer is nothing like the N-slur - 50:11 Conclusion - 53:02 Lily’s hypocrisy on the ‘supreme court of language’ - 53:33 Tackling Lily’s ableism - 55:16 Lily shares Natalie’s (inaccurate) ‘old school’ elitism - 56:11 General thoughts on Lily - 56:47 Lily’s recent rape apologetics - 57:50 *Quick References* [1] Lily Orchard (2018) "Glass of Water - Slurred Speech", YouTube.com Accessed 3rd December 2019; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54pnDjkUuuU [2] Oxford University Press (2020) "Queer", Lexico.com Accessed 27th April 2020; https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/queer [3] Oxford University Press (2002) "The Concise Oxford English Dictionary", 10th Ed, Oxford University Press [4] Oxford University Press (2008) “Compact Oxford English Dictionary”, 3rd Ed, Revised, Oxford University Press [5] Oxford University Press (1993) “New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary”, 3rd Ed, Revised, Oxford University Press [6] Douglas Harper (2020) "Pervert", Etymonline.com Accessed 28th April 2020; https://www.etymonline.com/word/pervert [7] Colin Maccabe, & Holly Yanacek (2018) "From “Odd,” “Strange,” and “Bad,” to Reclaiming the Word “Queer", OUP.com Accessed 28th April 2020; https://blog.oup.com/2018/12/lgbtq-community-reclaiming-the-word-queer/ [8] Bram Stoker (1897) "Dracula", Gutenberg.org Accessed 28th April 2020; [9] George Chauncey (1994) "Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940", American Council of Learned Societies [10] Anonymous (1990) "Queers Read This", QRD.org Accessed 28th April 2020; www.qrd.org/qrd/misc/text/queers.read.this [11] Queer Experience Survey (2018) "Queer Experience Survey 2018", Tumblr.com Accessed 30th January 2019; https://qesurvey.tumblr.com/post/172875317248/how-do-different-identities-accept-and-reject-the [12] Sylvia Rivera (1973) “Y’all Better Quiet Down”, YouTube.com Accessed 28th April 2020; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-JIOWUw1o [13] Fred Sargeant (2011) "American Experience; Stonewall Uprising; Interview with Fred Sargeant", Accessed 28th April 2020; openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_C9A3B5DB7A6848F7B5F9858C106C6854 [14] Elliot Owen (2016) "Life of Activism Shaped Transwoman's Compassion", Ebar.com Accessed 1st May 2020; https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230828/http://ebar.com/pride/article.php?sec=pride&article=171 [15] Jessica Stern "This is What Pride Looks Like: Miss Major and the Violence, Poverty, and Incarceration of Low-Income Transgender Women", SFOnline.Barnard.edu Accessed 1st May 2020; sfonline.barnard.edu/a-new-queer-agenda/this-is-what-pride-looks-like-miss-major-and-the-violence-poverty-and-incarceration-of-low-income-transgender-women/0/ [16] EssenceOfThought (2019) "Online Communities Need To Learn How To Deal With Child Predators - Personal Insight", YouTube.com Accessed 29th April 2020; https://youtu.be/VyxJ4-Kt7UU [17] Anthony Zenkus (2020) "The Inconvenient Truth of Rape", CommonDreams.org Accessed 1st May 2020; https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/07/inconvenient-truth-rape [18] Joan Walsh (2020) "The Troublesome Tara Reade Story", TheNation.com Accessed 29th April 2020; https://web.archive.org/web/20200415200053/https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/tara-reade-joe-biden-democrats/ [19] Ashley Reese (2020) "The New York Times Apparently Edited an Article With the Biden Campaign in Mind", Jezebel.com Accessed 9th May 2020; https://theslot.jezebel.com/the-new-york-times-apparently-edited-an-article-with-th-1842860940 Hi, welcome to the Essence Of Thought YouTube channel! Please help support us and our work! http://www.patreon.com/EssenceOfThought Feel free to follow us on FB, Twitter & Instgram! https://www.facebook.com/EssenceOfThought https://twitter.com/EssenceOfTweet https://www.instagram.com/essenceofproduction/ Art commissioned from M N Starr; https://twitter.com/M_NStarr (Views expressed in this video do not reflect on the views of M N Starr)