Allonormativity: Sexual Attraction as a Social Expectation
Allonormativity is the assumption that everyone naturally experiences sexual attraction and should want sexual relationships or become sexually active.
Chosen Community: Belonging, Support, and LGBTQ+ Connection
A chosen community is a voluntarily formed network of people who provide belonging, support, identity affirmation, friendship, and mutual care beyond traditional family structures.
Queer Kinship: Chosen Family, Care, and LGBTQ+ Belonging
Queer kinship describes family-like bonds and care networks created through friendship, partnership, community, co-parenting, and chosen family beyond traditional family structures.
Internalized Acephobia: Stigma, Self-Doubt, and Ace Acceptance
Internalized acephobia occurs when asexual or ace-spectrum people absorb negative beliefs about asexuality and apply those stereotypes or judgments to themselves.
Internalized Biphobia: Stigma, Erasure, and Bisexual Self-Acceptance
Internalized biphobia occurs when bisexual or bi+ people absorb negative beliefs about bisexuality and apply those stereotypes or judgments to themselves or others.
Internalized Homophobia: Stigma, Shame, and Sexual Self-Acceptance
Internalized homophobia occurs when sexual-minority people absorb negative beliefs about same-sex attraction and apply those beliefs to themselves or others.
Internalized Transphobia: Stigma, Shame, and Gender Self-Acceptance
Internalized transphobia occurs when transgender or gender-diverse people absorb negative anti-trans beliefs and apply them to themselves or other trans people.
Virginity Testing: Myths, Consent, and Bodily Integrity
Virginity testing is an unreliable practice that attempts to determine sexual history through genital examination, despite no physical test being able to prove virginity.
Reproductive Oppression: Control, Inequality, and Reproductive Freedom
Reproductive oppression is systemic control or restriction of reproductive choices through coercion, discrimination, unequal healthcare, social power, or institutional barriers.
Right to Gender Recognition: Identity, Privacy, and Legal Equality
The right to gender recognition concerns social and legal acknowledgment of a person’s gender, including names, records, identity documents, privacy, and equal treatment.