A question

[ilzolende]

Is Dreamwidth a good site for blogging about weird gender and sexuality stuff and whatnot? I'm not actually sure. Does anyone else use it this way?

I heard that Tumblr was, but that always seemed overstated, and at any rate people on Tumblr seem to actually be rather tired of things I would want to talk about. Specifically, I'm a non-transmasculine bisexual female who nonetheless thinks she has interesting complex stuff going on in the gender and sexuality domain. I also think that gender and sexuality whatnot is more about the joy of approaching optimal presentation and dating people you like as opposed to how much it sucks to deal with discrimination and logistical problems and medical difficulties and whatnot.

(While it does suck to deal with discrimination and logistical problems and medical difficulties and whatnot, making these things be what most online discussion of gender and sexuality is about seems highly unfortunate? It would be like a gaming site that solely discussed unpleasant conditions in the game industry, and how hard it is to get a group together for tabletop RPGs, and whether the D&D satanic panic or the "video games cause violence" panic was worse.)

Comments

[sigmaleph]

I moved all original longposting I would have done on tumblr to dreamwidth, some of which is inevitably weird gender stuff

so far it has worked out fine

[brin_bellway]

I recommend going for it. It seems like it would fit very well into the social-journaling thing.

[gattsuru]

I've seen a few people, and I'm hoping to eventually get comfortable enough to do so myself. It seems like it would be a little more conducive, but then again, so did tumblr long ago.

And since the closest thing right now is CuriousCat's QA format, definitely would be interested if you find a /good/ option.

[viktornowalsk]

DW is very plausibly a better fit than Tumblr, as a longform-personal-blogging platform rather than a social-microblogging platform. I'd definitely welcome seeing more non-suffering gender/sexuality discussion!

(The access-lock feature is generally awesome too; if I ever discuss Gender Things online, it'll probably be here or another platform that at least sort of lets me control who can see/share content. Tumblr is extremely not that.)

[exasperative]

I subscribed specifically because I want my feed to include more of this, so...yes please! The platform seems much better for it, since posts can no longer be reblogged into contextlessness and reading effortposts is more convenient.

[zenolalia]

I mean, I use DW for weird queer ranting, so it seems like a good fit to me. I say go for it, tbh.