Ponderances on LGBTQ terminology

So twitter is this awesome resource for a lass trying to write a masters dissertation at 10pm whilst her kids are asleep and she has a few questions.....

Storified by SexEdUKation · Mon, Apr 22 2013 14:25:51

Trying to decide if I am going to use "queer" as my terminology for LGBT and justify it in queer theory or stick with LGBT. ARGH.

— Alice Hoyle · Mon, Apr 22 2013 12:21:53

I love the encompassing and inclusive term of Queer (though I respect many don't feel that way) but I also don't feel that in UK that 1/2

— Alice Hoyle · Mon, Apr 22 2013 12:22:44

that schools will embrace "Queer" as a term& therefore as I want this work to be useful and applicable to schools perhaps I shouldn avoid?

— Alice Hoyle · Mon, Apr 22 2013 12:23:26

In fact I think twitter 140 chartacter rambles has just helped me sort that out in my head. Thanks Twitter. #talkingtomyself

— Alice Hoyle · Mon, Apr 22 2013 12:23:59

Trust me to start with the big difficult masters questions at 8.30 at night when I have limited time to write and no childcare tomorrow!

— Alice Hoyle · Mon, Apr 22 2013 12:35:17

Pondering if Sexism shouldn't be renamed Genderism as gender not sex is at its root? #hegemonicmasculinities @everydaysexism

— Alice Hoyle · Mon, Apr 22 2013 12:34:27

@SexEdUKation @EverydaySexism Interesting. Could "anti-genderism" reconcile radical with third wave feminism?

— Ian Dickerson · Mon, Apr 22 2013 13:39:25

@SexEdUKation would it matter if cis or trans? #addedcomplication

— Graham Hartland · Mon, Apr 22 2013 12:44:48

@ramtopsgrum that is why genderism better? because Sex- does it mean sex assigned at birth or current sex? but then suppose same applies to

— Alice Hoyle · Mon, Apr 22 2013 12:55:06

@ramtopsgrum gender. Argh I am confusing myself now. I am so not cut out for this academic lark!

— Alice Hoyle · Mon, Apr 22 2013 12:55:25

@encratica @SexEdUKation @EverydaySexism all three terms are academic & have little to do with women's lives.

— Siren out of Brixton · Mon, Apr 22 2013 13:48:05

@SexEdUKation +++ I'm getting lost in these definitions : they seem to change with the wind!

— Graham Hartland · Mon, Apr 22 2013 13:15:03

@SexEdUKation hmm. Sounds like an issue of somantics here. There must be a 'goto' person who knows +++

— Graham Hartland · Mon, Apr 22 2013 13:12:44

@ramtopsgrum well the lovely @Simonablake promised to get his PA to send me a copy of their LGBT dictionary written by YP.

— Alice Hoyle · Mon, Apr 22 2013 13:24:10

@ramtopsgrum I'm gonna go with that one. #childrenarethefuture #academicswithbigwordsandtheoriesannoyme

— Alice Hoyle · Mon, Apr 22 2013 13:24:48

@SexEdUKation LGBT, at least in my opinion. I'm a lesbian, not a monolithic mass of non-conformers...

— Kirstin · Mon, Apr 22 2013 12:28:15

@haykirstin I think that is what I am leaning towards. I love the term queer for its "anything you want it to mean" approach but it also has

— Alice Hoyle · Mon, Apr 22 2013 12:37:25