Intersex Activism: Bodily Autonomy, Rights, and Social Recognition
Intersex activism advocates for bodily autonomy, informed consent, respectful healthcare, privacy, equality, and protection from unnecessary nonconsensual medical interventions.
Sex Positivity: Consent, Pleasure, Autonomy, and Sexual Choice
Sex positivity is an approach that supports consensual sexual expression, pleasure, autonomy, diversity, and informed choice without unnecessary shame or pressure.
Sex Negativity: Shame, Stigma, and Restrictive Sexual Norms
Sex negativity refers to beliefs or social norms that treat sexuality, desire, pleasure, or consensual sexual behavior as inherently shameful, immoral, or suspect.
Sex-Positive Feminism: Sexual Agency, Consent, and Pleasure
Sex-positive feminism supports sexual autonomy, consent, pleasure, reproductive freedom, and diverse sexual choices while challenging shame, restrictive gender roles, and coercion.
Sexual Liberation Movement: Freedom, Rights, Consent, and Social Change
The sexual liberation movement challenges restrictive sexual norms and promotes greater autonomy, equality, reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ rights, consent, and acceptance of sexual diversity.
Amatonormativity: Romance as a Social Expectation
Amatonormativity is the assumption that everyone should want and prioritize a central romantic relationship, often treating couplehood as necessary for a complete adult life.
Ace Erasure: Asexual Invisibility, Invalidity, and Recognition
Ace erasure is the denial, invisibility, or misrepresentation of asexuality, often through assumptions that everyone experiences sexual attraction or must want sex.
Bi Erasure: Bisexual Invisibility, Invalidity, and Identity Recognition
Bi erasure is the denial, dismissal, or invisibility of bisexuality, often occurring when people assume sexual orientation solely from a person’s current partner.
Visibility Management: Identity, Privacy, Disclosure, and Safety
Visibility management is the process of controlling how visible an identity is across different settings through disclosure, concealment, privacy, presentation, and selective openness.
Passing Privilege: Perception, Safety, and LGBTQ+ Identity
Passing privilege is the social advantage someone may receive when others perceive them as belonging to a dominant group, such as cisgender or heterosexual.