Solarpunk

I fixed my previous post's markdown. It is finicky about whitespace, but hopefully my whole message rendered for you.

Ape together strong is funny, but not an answer.

What is the practical purpose? Safety, solidarity, emotional validation, political might, fun. Off the top of my head. Sorry for the flippant answer before, heh.

I know queer people, who maybe know some other queer people they’re friends with, but there isn’t any community, and they’re spread across the country, few and far between. They have no interest in any community. I’ve tried to organise a thing for us all to meet up, but no one is interested. Everyone needs money, they have phones for making themselves feel better.

Ok I'm not myself queer, just most of my friends are, so I can't authoritatively speak on this topic. I'm going to text some friends and see if they'll humor me by telling me their takes on if queer community exists.

My impression based on the number of explicitly queer events one friend goes to, and the spiraling social network around that, there is definitely community. They go to a lot of trans punk shows, I think. Plus picnics, beach trips, marches, parties, other stuff. I think they want to organize a knitting circle or something too, maybe?

My other friend who answered between me starting this message and now said, when I showed her the part I quoted: "That’s not consistent with my experience".

Thinking about it, I know someone else who runs a queer book club.