Lecter A.A. Wierstamann
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Tag: radeviance
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Antisurvivorism – oppression of sexual abuse survivors
Continue Reading: Antisurvivorism – oppression of sexual abuse survivorsRecently, while re-titling sections on the Map Wiki page about Newgon, I realized we lack a word for a specific type of bigotry and oppression – the one that targets people who underwent sexual abuse. I want to call this phenomenon “antisurvivorism”. I regret not being able to specify sexual abuse in this term, but…
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Violation, perpetrators, and violator roles
Continue Reading: Violation, perpetrators, and violator rolesIn the society the concept of violating another person may be regarded as either normative or deviant, depending on the context. Normative interpretation most often takes place in case of punitive/corrective actions towards a deviant or another marginalized figure. In these cases the violation perpetrator is typically someone, regarded by the society as fit to…
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Behaviors, identities, and perceived deviance
Continue Reading: Behaviors, identities, and perceived devianceSeveral months ago I came across a Tumblr post that described what the author called “positionality”. They defined it as occupying a social position that does not necessarily correspond to your identity, being perceived as a member of a group you do not actually consider yourself a part of, and being affected by benefits and…
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Deviance-adjacent groups
Continue Reading: 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
Continue Reading: 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
Continue Reading: 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
Continue Reading: 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
Continue Reading: 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 –…