#kinamemes

[matt-sarme]

[matt-sarme]

Honestly the funniest part of your meme is that France discovered the whole "woke" thing already reframed by right-wing medias and politicians as this vague-though-civilisation-ending cultural threat. But the whole awareness of social injustices was never attached to "wokeness" in my country.

To put it otherwise, we imported the backlash without the original concept. And now you get these supposedly progressive people constantly drawing the line of wokeness here and there, clutching their pearls over two consenting adults who happen to be related.

We really need to expose how these people who claim to defend bodily autonomy, informed consent, queer liberation, and fighting repressive norms suddenly rediscover their inner conservative moralist the second kinship enters the picture. We have to get rid of liberal squeamishness once and for all. I really think their reaction isn't coming from some deep bio-ethical concern about power imbalances or genetics in most cases, but from cultural disgust post-rationalized as principle.

Kinamory is a serious extension of queer politics. It's a political fight against one of the last respectable bastions of bio-essentialist family-normativity, against the idea that blood ties automatically create irremediable power or disgust that overrides consent between adults. If we're serious about dismantling compulsory heterosexuality, monogamy, and the nuclear family as sites of control, then kinamory belongs in that struggle.

[matt-sarme]