PLATOPUNK, like amatopunk, is an ideology and identity that is centred around challenging platonormativity, the way we define friendship and platonic relationships, as well as recognising the aplatonic spectrum and different forms of nontraditional friendship. Anyone of any identity can be platopunk, as it encompasses many different groups of people and how platonormativity affects them.
It involves/includes:
- aplatonic people, people on the aplatonic spectrum, friendship and socially averse/repulsed/indifferent people etc, and supporting these people
- challenging the notion that platonic attraction is equal to and entails friendship or that friendship is equal to or entails platonic attraction
- challenging the notion that friendship is a necessary part of one’s life in order to feel fulfilled
- friendships between disordered and disabled individuals that do not fit into the societal standards and expectations for a friendship and challenging the notion that some of these relationships are wrong, abusive or harmful e.g transactional relationships
- nontraditional friendships like object friending, fiction friending, exclusively experiencing/desiring friendships intrasys, etc and supporting these relationships
- alloplatonics who struggle to or cannot form/keep friendships, supporting them and understanding how platonormativity affects them
No flag for now because I want to put some thought into the stripe meanings so that may come soon! Please be nicey to me bc I have been ruminating hard on this for a while and was nervous to put this out into the world
TAGGING: @radiomogai @io-archival
