Notable Places of Interest for Social Roles

The novaTop Experience with Social Roles novaTopFlex is largely renowned across all three identities—novaTop, geoTop, and futoTop—for celebrating found/chosen family and other nontraditional family values, with a modern take on social roles and significantly more flexible social norms than society often acknowledges. For the aforementioned reason, novaTopFlex recommends consulting with the populations of the following communities for more related information, since the following places […]

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Notable Places of Interest for Social Roles

The novaTop Experience with Social Roles novaTopFlex is largely renowned across all three identities—novaTop, geoTop, and futoTop—for celebrating found/chosen family and other nontraditional family…

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Peer Pressure is a Capitalist Construct

The idea that all individuals must eventually find someone at all is a capitalist construct that literally underscores the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in society. Even in cases where additional freedom is permitted, the idea that singlehood is somehow “taboo” is more or less also a capitalist construct. Again, because “traditional values” are inherently social constructs, while human diversity is extremely important for societal acceptance, development, progress, […]

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Peer Pressure is a Capitalist Construct

The idea that all individuals must eventually find someone at all is a capitalist construct that literally underscores the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in society. Even in cases w…

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#Heteronormativity and cisgenderism in medical training: A scoping review

Social Science & #Medicine, Volume 370, April 2025

📌 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953625001510

"LGBTQ+ issues were lacking in the formal medical curriculum, with very little consideration beyond strictly biomedical concerns."

The persistence of heteronormativity is not only due to the weight of social conventions and norms, but also to material conditions of existence: being in a couple means having more resources. Sophie Lewis asserts that the conditions of heterosexuality are inseparable from economic realities: ‘Most women are too overworked, too exhausted by the demands of capitalism and its culture of compulsory enjoyment to even have the opportunity to learn to love.’

Sophie Lewis wrote ‘Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation’

#relationships #domesticWork #sociology #heteroNormativity #materialistFeminism #feminism #love #subjugation #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #patriarchy #subalternStudies #family

“I simply do not see why the nation has to have an official sexuality, especially one that authorizes the norm of a violent gentility; that narrows the field of legitimate political action; that supports the amputation of personal complexity into categories of simple identity; that uses cruel and mundane strategies both to promote shame for non-normative populations and to deny them state, federal, and juridical supports because they are deemed morally incompetent to their own citizenship. This is the heterosexuality I repudiate.”

― Lauren Berlant, in "The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship"

#heteroNormativity #beliefs #subjugation #radicality #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #queer #Berlant #LaurenBerlant #literature #fluidity #patriarchy #subalternStudies

"Our invisibility perpetuates a cycle where parenting and family norms remain unchallenged, leaving services without a reason to build their capability for inclusive practice at a systemic level through, for example, inclusive data collection systems and the provision of rainbow inclusion education to providers."

#QueerRights #QueerIssues #QueerParenting #lgbtqia #heteronormativity #society #Aotearoa

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/06-09-2025/the-endless-trip-out-of-the-closet-queer-and-trans-parent-experiences-in-aotearoa

The endless trip out of the closet: queer and trans parent experiences in Aotearoa

Ahead of a new national survey of rainbow parents, George Parker shares their parenting reality.

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'What distinguishes Wittig's theoretical, political and literary project, and makes it an unavoidable pole of intellectual attraction today, is its radical anti-essentialism. It's the radical anti-essentialism that Wittig applies to the most credible of beliefs, because of the strength of its naturalization: the idea that men and women are naturally complementary "natural groups".'

Sara Garbagnoli explained in 2023: https://www.moniquewittig.com/wp-content/uploads/Sara-in-AOC-english.pdf 🧶

#revolution #reciprocity #radicality #reversibility #materialistFeminism #materialism #beliefs #subjugation #naturalism #essentialism #sexism #heteroSexism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #minorityStudies #queer #nonBinary #culturalHistory #lesbians #otherness #linguistics

Heterosexuality is a regime of political oppression 🧶

"Just as racism produces race and not the other way round, sexism produces sex through the relationship of domination that reduces the dominated to things or natural objects."
… said Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz summarizing Monique Wittig

#materialism #beliefs #subjugation #radicality #EstelleSays #materialistFeminism #naturalism #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #saphism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #history #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #linguistics #writing #minorityStudies #universalism #queer #constructivism #antagonism #culturalHistory #lesbians

#BooksAgainstNormativity

Hey,
I'd like to start a collection of books, that are great eye-openers against normative concepts.

I have read 2 books so far, that I think fit:

#Ace by #AngelaChen: Maybe the standard work on asexuality and a great book to understand and question allo-normativity (allo(sexual) being the opposite of ace/asexual)

#Platonic by #MarisaGFranco: An homage to platonic partnerships and against romantic normativity or also allo normativity (allo(romantic) being the opposite of aromantic here)

I'm next looking for a book on #RelationshipAnarchy to add to the list. Is there like a go-to book or must read? Please let me know.

Also do you know of any other books, that fit into the collection? It can be about/against any kind of normativity, not just related to gender, relationships and identity.

#BooksTodon #BookRecommendation #normativity #asexuality #asexual #aromantic #RelationshipAnarchism #QueerFeminism #HeteroNormativity #AlloNormativity #polyamory #monogamy #patriarchy