MBLGTACC 2023 – Moving Beyond Relationship Hierarchies to Community Care with Relationship Anarchy

Moving Beyond… was presented by TAAAP advocates at MBLGTACC in 2023, a conference dedicated to educating the Midwestern collegiate audience on queer history, activism, and identity. This presentation explores the ways in which relationship hierarchies, and their colonial origins, currently shape our communities and the limits they have imposed on our ability to create caring, long-lasting ties. With that as context, we offer ideas based in the concept of relationship anarchy on how to create communities that better serve our needs and desires.

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MBLGTACC 2022 – In Defiance of White Supremacist Relationship Hierarchies

In Defiance of… is one of the presentations that TAAAP advocates gave at MBLGTACC in 2022, a conference dedicated to educating the Midwestern collegiate audience on queer history, activism, and identity. This workshop focused on white supremacy, amatonormativity, and the ways in which they attempt to control the sexuality of POC and ethnic minorities, impose reproductive and domestic labour, and negatively impact queer activism and community formation. We explored the meanings and histories of the institution of marriage, compulsory sexuality, and related topics, and brainstormed how we can resist these punitive ideologies and organise as a community outside of such structures.

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