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Normativity and Anti-Normativity - by Sarah Constantin

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A concept that’s been floating around my social circles, and my blogging, for the past several years, is normativity. My friend Hazard even created an “anti-anti-normativity starter pack” that contains a lot of my old posts. How much I still agree with what I once wrote varies — my writing has often grown out of conversations, and sometimes it was more of an attempt to articulate someone else’s perspective than my own.1 I’ve long had a conflicted relationship to normativity, I think I’m not the only one, and I think it’s an important issue that’s at the root of a lot of showier (psychological, political, etc) issues that are very visible in 2024. But, anyhow, what do I mean by normativity? Normativity is the view that good is better than bad. In other words, you can rank or evaluate things, some are better than others, and it is preferable to make things “better” rather than “worse”. A strong normative stance would say that this is literally always the case — it is always preferable to

Normativity and Anti-Normativity reconciling with that which doesn't want to reconcile Sarah Constantin May 03, 2024 86 37 4 Share A concept that’s been floating around my social circles, and my blogging, for the past several years, is normativity . My friend Hazard even created an “ anti-anti-normativity starter pack ” that contains a lot of my old posts. How much I still agree with what I once wrote varies — my writing has often grown out of conversations, and sometimes it was more of an attempt to articulate someone else’s perspective than my own. 1 I’ve long had a conflicted relationship t

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