On the Inclusivity of "Queer"

 A bit of bell hooks to mark the middle of pride month (from here at 1:27):

"All of our lives we've experienced ourselves as queer, as not belonging as the essence of queer. I think of Tim Dean's work on being queer, and not as being about who you're having sex with, that can be a dimension of it, but queer as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live." 

That means that, provided you're not maintaining the status quo of the dominant structure, the neoliberal capitalist machine that enables people to be so absorbed with entertaining themselves that they're oblivious to the atrocities at their feet, and instead you sometimes find yourself hitting a brick wall when trying to express yourself to other, trying to get them to see the bigger picture or the tiniest nuance that might knock down their fortifications or even just to see you, or you just sometimes feel out of place or weird, then YOU are invited to the party!