The monotheistic religions made it normal to squash people: "I think there is something really special about the Bible [...] which is precisely this idea that the revelation of truth comes through the suffering of the weak." (Matthieu Poupart)
Then the Renaissance made it easier to blame the victim: With modernity, "it is the person who takes no initiative who is seen as responsible for the emergence of sexual promiscuity." (Matthieu Poupart)
"Even as queer and trans Iranian asylum seekers and Afghan refugees who left Iran for Turkey do not fall under the same category according to the UNHCR’s criteria, they have something in common: they are economic refugees. Yet the UNHCR does not recognize economic marginalization as grounds for granting asylum. If it did, a large number of people in the world (including in the United States) who are affected by global capitalism’s economic violence (such as lack of access to universal health care in the United States) would be eligible for asylum."
― Sima Shakhsari in her article "What counts at violence?" in https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-cunning-of-gender-violence
h/t @danahilliot
#introduction post
hello my name is ivie! i’m #trans, #lesbian, and #demisexual. i’m kinda quiet when i don’t know you, but i’m a big yapper otherwise. this account is to let that occasional yap out without restricting me to #socialnorms and #heteronormativity. i tend to feel a lot of feelings 
my interests include: #music #bass #friends #movies #videogames #pcgaming #photography #sewing #wlw #design
i hope everyone seeing this has a lovely day
I'm now reading Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape our futures by Merlin Sheldrake.
I don't like it as much as I liked The Light Eaters or How to Change Your Mind, but for some reason, I really enjoyed the section on lichens, and not just for the following.
"Spiribille told me about a paper called 'Queer theory for lichesn.' ('It comes up as the first thing in Google when you enter "queer" and "lichen."') Its author argues that lichens are queer beings that present ways for humans to think beyond the rigid binary framework: The identity of lichens is a question rather than answer known in advance."
Although I can't access the full article, the abstract of this paper holds promise:
"I ask: if we have never been human – if we are all composites like lichens – then what does this mean for sexuality? I argue that lichens and other symbioses can open up a queer ecological perspective that can help counter the privileging of heteronormativity and sexual reproduction, and that this has consequences for both science and society. "
https://currents.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/currents/article/view/40249
Growing up in a heteronormative world enough to cause deep-seated trauma in LGBTQ+ youth
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/growing-up-in-a-heteronormative-world-is-enough-to-cause-deep-seated-trauma-in-lgbtq-youth
* symptoms 2SLGBTQIA+ youth experience often mirror post-traumatic stress disorder
Comment: a friend in a 2SLGBTQIA+ group I belong to suggested this article/book.
Raising LGBTQ Allies. A Parent's Guide to Changing the Messages from the Playground
Chris Tompkins, 2021
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538192740/Raising-LGBTQ-Allies-A-Parents-Guide-to-Changing-the-Messages-from-the-Playground
#2SLGBTQIA+ #LGBT #parenting #family #heteronormativity #PTSD #SocialStudies #LGBTstudies
"Russia is considering a "Ministry of Sex" amid its population crisis. As Russia shrinks, it says that child-free ideology is to blame. So Kremlin has banned "child-free propaganda" to try to boost birth rate. Will Russia’s bizarre ideas boost the population? Why are countries throwing money at the problem as their population shrinks?"—Firstpost
Russia Mulls “Ministry of Sex”, Bans "Child-Free Propaganda" | Vantage with Palki Sharma >
"Male street harassers seem to view and treat women as though we are public spectacles."
@juliaserano wrote: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/16/street-harassment-women-public via @Akki
"If a young woman does not follow the social injunction to have feelings in a sexual relationship, she knows that she risks being called to order, being punished. Or to feel shame or guilt. This burden of the social norm is primarily internalised."
"There is, in all circles, the threatening 'spectre of the faggot'. The determination to appear as 'a man, a real man' and secure one's masculinity, while escaping suspicion of homosexuality, which is considered demeaning and dangerous. Some gay boys from privileged backgrounds have told me that they were in a relationship with a girl at school to give the impression, to cover their tracks."
An interview with Isabelle Clair, in 2023 (fr) https://www.ouest-france.fr/societe/sexualite/entretien-des-lage-de-15-ans-on-reve-detre-en-couple-explique-cette-sociologue-2fee21ae-cc7e-11ed-8144-e74efc02d2d3 @sociology @edutooters 
We all know #Heteronormativity by now, and last year Ian Walker (i think) introduced #Motonormativity - how we all have a pro-car cognitive bias in our thinking.
Well there is also an #Israelnormativity in MSM - whatever Israel does is fine and normal.
Like every Saturday morning I am at our little Eastbourne protest, doing our tiny bit to disrupt this normativity. #Gaza #FreePalestine #Lebanon
#Aphobia may come even from the #LGBTQ+ community: There's this idea that #asexual and #aromantic people do not belong to the LGBTQ+. A common excuse is we're not "oppressed enough". 
Here's the thing: ALL #aces and #aros violate #heteronormativity. No matter how you twist and turn it, it's impossible to be ace/aro AND fully comply with heteronormativity.
Excluding people who violate heteronormtivity is patently absurd.
I'm aro-ace, and therefore LGBTQIA+.
#WritersCoffeeClub APR-04 Do you feature real-world political and social issues in your work?
Social issues play a huge part in most of my story. Since a good part of my stories has #queer topics, my characters deal with #homophobia (including internalized one)/ #transphobia, #heteronormativity/ #cisnormativity/ #allonormativity, you name it.
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TFW you again and again see couples, hand in hand, one masked, the other unmasked, the latter always of the same gender presentation.
apropos:
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112149649606673778
Margot Déage: "A girl who does not belong to a boy or a man can fall into the category of whore at any time, whatever her clothes or sexual practices."
Margot Déage: "Being in a position to say who’s a whore and who’s a good girl is a power in itself within the girls’ group, a power that is strongly mobilised by certain girls. The ones who can fall, in general, are the hardest on the matter."
Rough contact and impact peak around the age of seven. This is gradually replaced by peer monitoring in the years that follow.
Isabelle Clair: "Adolescence is a very normative age. At middle school, "there's a very tough relationship to what's the right thing to do".
Margot Déage: "Physical violence is much more prevalent in elementary/primary school, then decreases in middle school, and progressively through high school."
Lavender Country released their eponymous album in 1973. It's thought to be the first (openly) #gay / #queer #CountryMusic album. The song "Cryin' These Cocksucking Tears" is quite a critique of #heteronormativity. (Lyrics in comment below.)
#newResearch on Daddy-Daughter Dances, and their role in heteronormativity and stigmatization. Explicitly gendered events such as these informally exclude people without heteronormative family structures. Thanks to Ezra Temko, Emily Love, Destiny Baxter, Adam Loesch & Heidi Masching for a great article.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00380237.2024.2319790
#sociology #education #GenderEquality #heteronormativity @sociology
Husband was reading some listicle of the best cheap places in the U.S. to retire to. The best being Alabama.
So yeah. Fuck that.
To clarify, we aint planning on leaving California. He was just reading it to because he knew what my reaction would be to the assumption the prospective retiree being a conservative straight white male cause no one else exists or matters
Sexual access to #women is supposed to be a reward for winning the "real man" game. If a #queer can be with a woman, it upends that. #Men who are openly bi+ offer a shot at a woman-man relationship that rejects #heteronormativity, the package deal of BS that comes with straight #relationships. #bisexual
It's funny how some cis het people will try to explain #heteronormativity by saying "yeah but it's normal cause most people are heterosexual" and not realize that their only argument is heteronormativity itself 
CET 
