Heteronormativity Posts
Posts discussing gender as socially constructed or performative
Dec. 7, 2025
Your Body Was Never The Problem - Body Control Dogma Is.
Hands up if the way you think your body looks has ever made you miserable? If so, I feel for you, and I mean that. It turns out that the perceived need to control our bodies can be directly linked to loneliness. That personal resonance is what made …
Nov. 19, 2025
How Archetypes and Caricatures Make Us Lonely — and Rob Us of Ourselves
I want to begin with a quote by Emmanuel Levinas — because this post is about being unseen. Or more precisely: it’s about being reduced to something you’re not. When you hear it, remember, for me, YOU are that other. For you, I am.“The Other, that i…
Nov. 19, 2025
Manufacturing Loneliness — Why and How Connection is Meant to Fail.
Today, I want to really drill down into what MIGHT be the solution to loneliness—connection—and make clear how the values we hold as a society make that connection so damn difficult. My hope is that, in understanding that, the real solutions—the one…