Lecter A.A. Wierstamann
You cannot ban me in a way that matters.
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Omegaverse headcanons
Categories: New postsRead more: Omegaverse headcanonsThis 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 my own ideas about omegaverse for a while, but I rarely put them together in a concise way in public. Mostly I’ve been insisting that omegaverse is not inherently related…
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Antitraction
Categories: New postsRead more: AntitractionAntitraction (a merge of “anti” and “attraction”) is a concept I came up with that describes a reverse of an attraction – feeling like some features (gender, age, etc) of a person make them completely off-limits sexually, romantically, and so on. It would be also possible to describe this feeling as repulsion, although I don’t…
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Masc and fem terminology
Categories: New postsRead more: Masc and fem terminologyRecently 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 disagree with how these words are interpreted. When many people say “masc” or “fem” as a general term denoting a category of a person, they mean something like this: These…
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An anti contact look at youth liberation
Read more: An anti contact look at youth liberationI’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 about it should immediately invoke that discourse and prompt the speaker to identify their stance. Neither any stance by itself, without any wider context clarifying what exactly the person wants,…
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Deviance-adjacent groups
Read more: Deviance-adjacent groupsThere 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 reason, yet still share many common traits with deviant groups in how they are treated. Items are not designed with them in mind, they are not included in what people…
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Queerness as a deviant identity
Read more: Queerness as a deviant identityQueerness 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 in three somewhat distinct ways: 1) as a general umbrella term for all LGBT and adjacent identities, 2) as a personal label, either standalone or interchangeably with some sublabels, 3)…
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Mapness as a deviant identity
Read more: Mapness as a deviant identityMapness as an identity Analyzing mapness as a deviant identity requires, first and foremost, establishing that it is an identity. An identity is something that can take a double meaning. It is both a state of being a certain kind of a person/having certain features and the act of including oneself in a certain group,…
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Defining norm, deviance, and liberation
Read more: Defining norm, deviance, and liberationA norm in the social sense is a system that assigns value to traits and to those who possess these traits, writes and distributes roles, and punishes for deviating from these roles. A deviant is someone who does not have traits that are considered valuable from the point of view of the norm, who feels…
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Radeviance archiving post
Read more: Radeviance archiving postRadeviance is a political and philosophical concept I co-authored on one of my Tumblr blogs. This blog has high chances to be suspended, so I’m transferring relevant posts here now. Pieces of my blog are currently being archived here and here as well. Radeviant Radeviant is an identity related to the concept of deviance –…
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A forum announcement and Newgon claims’ analysis
Read more: A forum announcement and Newgon claims’ analysisWhen I first wrote my principles of activism, I did not have a clear picture of what to do with it, but eventually we made a forum, based on them. The first project we picked up is analyzing studies that Newgon cites on their research page in defense of youth age gap romantic/sexual involvement. Analysis…