Quidditism is an ideology and a movement that seeks to push the world towards an accepting, tolerant and fully free future, where everyone can thrive without fear.
✦ anti nationalism | anti patriotism | pro globalism | anti-imperialism | pro-decolonization | pro cultural pluralism | anti-xenophobia | anti racism
✦ anti mass surveillance
✦ anti cops | anti military | anti government
✦ anti-capitalism | pro abolition of money
✦ anti generative AI
✦ anti incarceration | anti death penalty | anti enslavement, even as punishment | pro rehabilitation | respect of rights for law breakers/criminals
✦ pro universal healthcare
✦ pro humanitarianism | pro humanitarian aid
✦ anti hostile architecture
✦ anti-censorship | anti-sanitization | pro "dead-dove: do not eat" [pro content warnings and "don't like, don't read"]
✦ respect of animal rights | environmentalism | anti factory farming | anti animal abuse & neglect | anti deforestation | anti harm of endangered species | anti overhunting / overfishing | pro depollution
✦ pro religious pluralism | anti religious exclusivism | anti proselytism
✦ anti ageism | anti racism & anti xenophobia as mentioned above | anti queerphobia | anti sexism (misogyny, misandry, intersexism, gender roles, transmedicalism, bioessentialism) | anti religious-based discrimination |
✦ anti ableism | anti sanism | anti psychiatry | anti forced treatment / recovery | pro risk-aware bodily autonomy | pro self-diagnosis | pro MUDs
✦ supportive of all neurodivergent, persodivergent and plural identities
✦ supportive of all LGBTQIA+ / MOGAI / LIOM identities
-> including but not limited to alterhumanity, contradictory labels, micro-labels, spite-based labels,...
✦ supportive of all transIDs*
✦ supportive of kink, fetish and paraphilias* | pro sex-ed | pro sexual autonomy | pro destigmatization of sex
-> anti-sexual violence [i.e. rape, sexual abuse, sexual assault, and sexual harrassment] | proper recognition of consent | recognition of "sexual violence" as engaging in sexual activity without clear and proper consent | fighting against excusing and trivializing sexual violence towards any individual or demographic
✦ limited contact
✦ radqueer critical
✦ pro decrimalisation and destigmatisation of sex work
✦ pro youth liberation
✦ cringepunk
✦ active and continued unlearning of internalized stigmas, prejudices, and stereotypes
✦ *against non-consensual harm
Ethymology:
The word 'quiddity' has 2 major definitions. The first one being "whatever makes something what is is, the essence". The movement seeks to establish a world where everyone is allowed to fully embrace themselves and who they truly are. In other words we wish for people to embrace their essence. The second definition of the world 'quiddity' is "deviation from an established pattern or norm, eccentricity".
Emoji Code/Symbol: 🪷💫
Originally coined on @quidditism on the 6th May 2025
This blog doesn't have a DNI. I'll be happy to answer any questions, no matter where you stand, as long as you stay civil.
“I’m just doing what I’m told. If I am ordered to remove gold fillings from refugees theeth then that’s what I’ll do”, says police officer Michael Hansen.
Just thought I’d add this since not a lot of people outside of the nordic countries seem to have seen it. This is a danish police officer discussing a new danish law that says the police should seize the possesions and money of refugees to finance the integration.
I've been trying to think of a way to lay this out for a while bc it is the #1 most common concern that I see expressed by people who are uncertain about antipsychiatry, like, by far, and it requires a sort of perspective reframe that can be hard for me to put words to. I've had like three ppl express some of these concerns in the last couple days alone, some of them good friends (hi Alex!) and I wanted to just make a public post about it, bc I think it trips a lot of people up.
People will ask me: how can I be antipsychiatry when I rely on the psychiatric system to obtain care? How can I oppose something on which I rely to stay alive? Which I think is really understandable, given the somewhat misleading name of the movement (and there's several names for it already, none of which really are illuminating to people outside those circles, which I think is a big communication problem. But I digress.)
When I say I am advocating for the abolition of psychiatry, I'm not saying I want to abolish access to care. What I am saying is that I want to abolish the institution of psychiatry as the gatekeeper of that care. Currently that's the only way you can access the care you need, and that's a huge part of the problem! It's like... of course it would be incoherent to say "you can't be anticapitalist if you rely on corporations to survive," because of course the system is designed so that we must rely on it.
So what I am advocating for is the replacement of psychiatry as the sole avenue of care with other models, models which prioritize autonomy and remove hierarchy and coercive control. Peer respite in place of involuntary institutionalization, informed consent models of acquiring medications rather than forcing people to go through medical gatekeepers who hold enormous power over them and largely do not see them as real people, etc. There are many, many forms that proposed alternative ways to access care can take.
I get it! I also take meds. I also have to rely on the systems that hurt me. For me, being antipsych is about saying "it is fucked up that we are forced to rely on these harmful, hierarchical systems to access care. We deserve something humane. We deserve to be the ones in control of our own treatment. We deserve to have our autonomy valued and protected and prioritized." Psychiatry does not offer us these things, and its structure at the core ultimately prevents it from doing so, due to its hierarchical nature & inherent power imbalances. This is broadly applicable to many of our current systems, and saying so is not the same as making an argument that we should simply not have any systems at all.
joypunk is a movement or ideology, rather than a term for any singular identity. joypunk is closely related to kindness punk and pridepunk/trendercore, and can also be related to choicepunk and genderpunk in certain uses.
joypunk as a movement seeks to emphasize the importance of joy, happiness, and fun in communities, and disrupt the stigma surrounding the need to take one's identity seriously: by placing one's love of themself first and outsiders' understanding second. joypunks will often institute radical inclusion instead of using arbitrary gatekeeping tactics (such as dysphoria-checking or oppression-checking others). joypunks emphasize fun, kindness, and joy in their communities and seek to expand their community understanding beyond simply their oppression and hardships.
an example of a joypunk could be a trans person who emphasizes gender euphoria. this type of joypunk may not have even considered their own level of dysphoria, as it is not important to them - their joy is. a trans joypunk may also identify their gender in relation to memes, photos, concepts, jokes, or other nonconventional means - they may perhaps even identify as xenogender. [ further examples of joypunk ]
i would like to emphasize that while joypunks emphasize their own fun and enjoyment, all joypunks also take care to recognize boundaries and borders. a joypunk does not get to use their fun-first mentality to hurt others through practices such as appropriation and willful ignorance.
flag color meanings and extra flag descriptions below!
the joypunk flag colors:
yellow - joy, happiness, and fun
orange - kindness towards others
pink - self love
purple - subversion, anti-establishment, and anti-conformity
blue - community
white - diversity
the two extra flags below are the kin joypunk flag and the xenogender joypunk flag. i chose these because it seemed like they fit and i had the transparents lying around already. feel free to make more joypunk edits for your own identities!
for those curious, this is joanne, a 15-year-old sumatran tiger currently living at phoenix zoo. it's very sweet to see her playing and tumbling around like this at her age -- she's got some people taking care of her if she still has this energy at that age.
i did see some users in the notes who were concerned about her looking 'scrawny', or wondering if she's maybe a juvenile -- far from it! at 15, joanne is very much considered a geriatric tiger; she's a grandma. she is, however, a sumatran tiger (panthera tigris sumatrae) -- sumatrans are the smallest extant subspecies of tiger, built more for the sweltering jungles of sumatra than the blistering cold of the amur river or the dense forests and mangrove swamps of south asia.
when you're used to seeing amur or amur-bengal hybrid ('generic') tigers on television or online, most of which are often overfed and overweight, a sumatran is going to look a bit weird, but joanne looks to be in wonderful shape -- look at those muscles flex and that coat shimmer when she moves! that's a healthy old lady for sure. props to joanne's keepers for taking such good care of her.
An identity term for when ones identities feed into each other / are connected to each other in any way !
For example ; you are plural, trans, queer, disabled, and alterhuman, instead of these things being completely separate they feed into and connect to each other !
Any time any of you apologize for not writing / not drawing / not posting more, I hope you know I am spiritually wrapping you in a big blankie and sitting you down in a cozy chair before fetching you a favorite beverage and kissing your forehead and telling you that existing at your own pace is more than enough and that you don’t have to meet a certain threshold of creating or being present to deserve patience and kindness.
for the lovely lovely deafies out there who want to get involved in direct action you absolutely 100% cannot ever bring a hearing aid or cochlear implant with bluetooth to any direct action. bluetooth devices all carry a unique signal that can be used to identify you if it's picked up at a direct action. go with a [more] hearing buddy and communicate in sign language. if you don't mutually know a sign language then come up with gestures. do not risk your freedom because you want to have your hearing aid/cochlear implant at the action. it's not worth it.
flock cameras are also now tracking bluetooth device signatures when you pass them. if you drive past a flock camera with your bluetooth-enabled hearing aid or cochlear implant, the flock camera knows you passed through
A photo essay documenting New York City’s Urban Agriculture movement. This project was made possible thanks to the Design Trust for Public Space and their Photo Urbanism Fellowship
We live in a system that makes money off of your misery and ambivalence. It relies on people thinking that they are inherently bad for the planet and that the world is ending so why change? Why try? --This is untrue! We belong here, on this one beautiful green earth and we have to work together to protect it. You have the power to do more than you know. You have a role to play in your ecosystem!
[last screenshot is of asthedeathoflight's tags, their url didnt fit in a screenshot]
we are not either above, below or separate from the natural world. we did not just appear out of nowhere completely outside of the natural order, we are the product of the natural order, just like everything else.
yes, there is a minority of humans who are destructive and violent, but just like how a couple "man-eating" sharks shouldnt make you hate the whole species, neither should the minority group of billionaires and capitalists and warmongers taint *our* entire species. keep your hate targeted at those who deserve it (those at the top, those in power doing nothing, those corrupted by greed), and keep your hope plentiful!
[ID: A five stripe flag, with the first a little thicker, the fourth a little thinner, and the last a lot thicker than the rest. In the top right corner is a symbol of a teal radar display with a dark purplish blue sparkle. The stripe colors are light seafoam green, light cyan, teal, dark purplish blue, and dark burgundy (red-purple). /End ID]
Blip / Anomalous-presenting
A presentation one where one presents in an anomalous way / presents like an anomaly.
Colors inspired by gorefix's Anomalous In Nature (link) flag, symbol by me with heavy inspo from various flaticon ones. "Blip" & the symbol refer to radar blips, the dots that appear whenever a radar detects something. It's meant to symbolise sort of,,, being anomalous compared to one's surroundings? The irregular stripe thicknesses are also for anomalous-ness.
An attack on Haunt of @ranqai for @coinfight ! Five (base) plus two? (nongender bonus) = 7 points.
Transemoticon, a transID label for those who believe they should be and/or aiming to become a emoticons, chronoically use emoticons, or just in general use emoticons, etc..
Please Note: this poster supports Non-Harmful Transitioning
personas may have their own names, pronouns, genders, aesthetics, interests, or ways of presenting, but do not inherently indicate plurality or a dissociative disorder. ive been in need of a flag that describes this
Persona Flag!
Personas are beings(?) that may have their own identities such as having their own names, pronouns, aesthetics, interests, or ways of presenting, but do not inherently indicate plurality or a dissociative disorder (whatever that means to the user)!
see this is exactly what I'm talking about. this labour is so incredibly invisibilised that there are real human beings, walking about amongst us, leading normal lives, etc., who earnestly believe that machines can make an item of clothing from start to finish.
Hey just in case someone on here doesn’t quite understand how labor intensive making a garment is, here is a list of things that (to the best of my knowledge) cannot be done by machine alone, from a costumer/tailor in training
Cutting - in my opinion, the most labor intensive part of the process. The amount of time/effort needed varies depending on the pattern and if seam allowance is included or marked separately, but no matter what this process can not be done by machine. Each and every panel and piece of fabric that goes into a garment must be cut by hand by a person.
Pinning/clipping - pinning (or clipping) is the stage at which you align the pieces you are going to be stitching together and hold them together with — you guessed it! — either pins or clips. This can not be done by machine.
Stitching - the actual sewing. This can be done by a sewing machine, but that machine still needs to be operated by a human being.
Ironing/pressing - two words that mean the same thing. The iron itself is a machine, but once again, it needs to be operated by a human being.
Finishing - depending on the technique you use, there are certain finishing techniques that can only be done by hand. But, let’s assume we’re talking about fast fashion, which is usually just finished with a simple overlock/serger. Once again: these machines need to be operated by people.
These are just the basic steps to making a garment, and don’t include textile arts that I am not as knowledgeable about, such as weaving, knitting, and crochet. Also, it is important to note that there are a lot of things that can only be done by hand, such as certain stitches and decorative techniques.
Also, the machinery being operated in textile factories is not equivalent to a domestic sewing machine. We’re talking about one of these guys:
See that gray cylinder under the table, behind the knee pedal? That’s the motor. These machines can sew through your fingers bones and all and not even stop. The people in these factories and sweatshops are operating heavy machinery, and are subject to all the risk that comes with that in addition to all of the work I mentioned above.
Please respect textile workers and continue the fight to eliminate the use of sweatshops and exploited labor in the fashion industry!
Reblogging with some additions from a different post o'mine:
" I'm taking a sewing class and I asked my teacher about how much machines can actually do. She said that while a lot of actual fabric we use in our projects is machine-woven, and sometimes there are machines for particular knitting patterns or for the same small thing over and over and over (i.e. socks), the overwhelming majority of pieces of clothing are in fact just sewn together by humans. Usually women. Underpaid and overlooked. Thousands and thousands of them, working 12 hours a day or more in huge warehouse-factories. You're probably wearing something one of those women created right now.
Most of the students (including me) were horrified. We had *no* idea. We figured that, given that we have supercomputers and massive industrial systems for almost every type of product you can buy, surely we would have figured out a better way? Surely there are machines that can put a t-shirt together by now?
She said, no, that's why fast fashion is really so bad. It's not simply about the quality of the product, it's about the human cost.
When you buy a cheap tee that says "Made in Bangladesh", this is where your clothing came from (and these are from one of the nicer factories):
(By Fahad Faisal. CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89582692)
Don't want to believe it? I understand. Here is the wikipedia page, you can read it in your own time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_industry_in_Bangladesh#Readymade_garment_(RMG)_industry
This isn't just true of clothes either. There's an astonishing amount of human labor behind most of our products. Even the steps that are automated are only possible because humans are constantly cleaning, maintaining, repairing, adjusting and fine tuning the machines.
I've noticed that the media that educates us often edits that out on purpose. In 'how its made' type videos, steps humans do by hand are often skipped because they don't make as smooth a video as watching machines do the parts of the production process that can be automated.
