Lecter A.A. Wierstamann
You cannot ban me in a way that matters.
Category: Map community politics
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Against child/adult marriage
Continue Reading: Against child/adult marriageThis is a restored post from my WordPress, originally posted on August 3, 2022. I still agree with what I said here. Several years ago, while writing my “Rebellion vs assimilation” post, I referred to gay marriage legalization as an example of rebellion – because for me, with all my Russian social experience, it seemed…
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What are the non-normative identities?
Continue Reading: What are the non-normative identities?This is a restored post from my WordPress, originally posted on June 28, 2022. I still agree with everything I said here. As most of you know, I co-admin a social media site, called nnia.space. NNIA stands for “Non-Normative Identities Alliance”, and it is an ideological moment, started by me and Kamil Beylant in 2019…
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Maps, LGBT, and strategic erasure
Continue Reading: Maps, LGBT, and strategic erasureThis is a restored post from my WordPress. Originally posted on December 17, 2020, it has been edited afterwards, and the edit was not captured by archives. However, it was small, and I put it back where it was without loss of sense. If you’re not new to the discourse, you must have heard it…
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The place of allies in the community
Continue Reading: The place of allies in the communityThis is a restored post from my WordPress. Originally posted May 25, 2020. I remember writing it, it was my last message to the community as an ally, when I was already planning my coming out as a map. Some realia here are outdated, but the general point stands. I was thinking whether I should…
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Love nihilism
Continue Reading: Love nihilism“Love nihilism” is a concept I came up with about a year ago. I realized I need something like this when I noticed love being inserted more and more in political activism. At the core, “love nihilism” means criticism of love as a universal virtue, refusal to place love above any other emotion a person…
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Teleionormativity as a problem
Continue Reading: Teleionormativity as a problemThis is a restored post from my WordPress. I do not have an original date of upload for it, but I can speculate it comes somewhere from 2019. Some things here are presented in a shallow manner and under-explored. “Teleionormativty” is a name I gave to a social phenomenon that I noticed. In a nutshell,…
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Political polarization and contact discourse
Continue Reading: Political polarization and contact discourseContact discourse is, perhaps, the most widespread and recurrent topic to argue about in most map spaces that have a comparable amount of members with different stances. Other political disagreements between maps sometimes end up hidden behind it, and people ignore that two anti contact or two pro contact maps can have completely incompatible reasons…
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My contact stance
Continue Reading: My contact stanceThis is a restored post from my WordPress. Originally posted on October 11, 2022. I still agree with everything I said here. A little over two years ago I wrote a post here that I titled “My anti contact manifesto”. Despite its name, it was intended solely for inner arguments in the anti contact community…
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Common misconceptions about maps
Continue Reading: Common misconceptions about mapsThis post, predating my WordPress and even long-suspended Medium, was initially a collection of links I gathered for my first map activism account on Tumblr. It has been changed and updated over and over again, and will be updated more. This version of the post is outdated and will be eventually replaced with this. These…
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Map rights
Continue Reading: Map rightsThis is a restored post from my WordPress. Originally posted on August 3, 2022. I still agree with everything I said here. Several months ago I tried to define map rights, and I came up with the following four: I want to describe what each of these means in practice. The right to good faith…