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+.
The mega acronyms strike me as a lifeless, corporate legalese kind of tolerance. Kind of like land acknowledgements. They satisfy the requirements of tolerance so we can move on to the real business.
Yeah, that’s it exactly. It doesn’t really feel genuine or meaningful, even though I’m sure a lot of people do mean it earnestly. It just sort of feels like a checklist.