You cannot ban me in a way that matters.
Several months ago I came across a Tumblr post that described what the author called “positionality”. They defined it as occupying a social position that…
This is a bit of an offtopic from my usual posts, because it’s not centered directly around some real social issue, but fiction. I had…
Antitraction (a merge of “anti” and “attraction”) is a concept I came up with that describes a reverse of an attraction – feeling like some…
Recently there’s been an increase in usage of words “masc” and “fem” or “femme” in the section of the trans community that I frequent. I…
I’d like to preface this text by saying that I don’t believe youth liberation itself to be so strongly tied to contact discourse that talking…
There are some groups that either take up a significant part of the population or can’t be considered a deviation from the norm for some other…
Queerness can be defined as presence of non normative gender preference, presentation, or identity, as well as absence of normative ones. This word can be used…
Mapness as an identity Analyzing mapness as a deviant identity requires, first and foremost, establishing that it is an identity. An identity is something that…
A norm in the social sense is a system that assigns value to traits and to those who possess these traits, writes and distributes roles,…