I originally thought it was an excessive amount of letters to describe those of us under the rainbow but no, it makes more sense in the context of the article I do not really agree with combining the two but to each their own I guess.
MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ stands for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual+. It’s derived in part from the more commonly used initialisms MMIWG (missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls) and 2SLGBTQ+.
Or use that acronym. Do you want people to use slang (or slurs) while you try to push a increasingly unwieldy label that, by definition, can and, in theory, must go on indefinitely? There must be hundreds, if not thousands of minority marginalized groups that are underrepresented. And we’re going to add upwards of 4 letters for each?
This is what the right complains about when they have to do something simple like use preferred pronouns. But this is political correctness gone made because it is an insane number of letters required to describe a very wide range and yet wildly incomplete number of people, and it is a slippery slope because there is no limit to how many marginalized groups there are that could be added for inclusion.
And don’t get me wrong, Murdered and Missing Indigenous Woman is a very important subject and people to bring attention to and actually address and do something about. But adding that subject to LGBTQ+ detracts from all of it more than it helps.