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The '''radqueer''' community originated on Tumblr as a community for paraphiliacs and people with other stigmatized non-normative identities (such as transid<ref>[https://transid.carrd.co/ Transid].</ref>). <br>
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Contact-neutral or contact neutral is an identity in [[contact discourse]]. Contact-neutral people do not consider themselves either [[pro-contact]] or [[anti-contact]] and typically oppose being grouped with either.


== Meaning ==
== Meaning ==


This label can be interpreted in multiple ways, with acceptance of non-normative identities as the unchangeable key component. Foucault-divine-mephisto, the coiner of the label and the creator of the first flag, posted the following text on November 14, 2021<ref>[https://archive.is/jiYnS RadQueer], foucault-divine-mephisto.</ref>:
Being contact-neutral can mean not having strong opinions on the ethics of youth age gap relationships or refusing to express opinions and pick a side. Those who hold this label agree that they don't identify as neither pro-, complex- nor anti-contact, and usually do not associate their personal stances with those listed. The underlying reasons are highly individual. Very often contact-neutral people dislike contact discourse and consider it counterproductive and irrelevant, and sometimes this label is adopted by those who used to align with either pro or anti-contact positions, but ended up no longer wanting to engage with this discourse. Some contact-neutral people actively invest in other spheres of activism, such as creating support networks for maps or educating people about youth liberation, and simply avoid political statements on the topic of relationships between adults and children as way less important. Some choose to exist in the map community apolitically.<br>
 
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– ’RadQueer’ (radical queer) was created in response to the puritanism, hypocrisy and general rejection in the Queer community regarding a range of marginalized and stigmatized Queersexualities (paraphilias), internal identities (transage, transabled, transill/transnoso, transpecies, alterhumans/transnonhuman etc) and behaviours (social, sexual eccentricity etc). ♢
 
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– Compared to the average queer, RadQueers hold a much more radical position on this topic believing that these identities are also part of the Queer community due to their Queer (=strange, non-normative) nature. ♢
 
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– Even if the term “RadQueer” designate an attitude inclusive of anything falling outside the normative, the dominant and the ‘legitimate’, it can be used interchangeably, if one wishes, with Queer, and the RadQueer pride flag can be used to represent the Queer flag, as the term ’Queer’ is already radically inclusive in itself.
 
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- foucault-divine-mephisto<br>
 
In the same post foucault-divine-mephisto released the original radqueer flag.<br>
 
<gallery>
File:Old radqueer flag.png|thumb|left|The first radqueer flag
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A new flag and a slightly new definition were posted by a Tumblr user equiradqueer on May 15, 2022<ref>[https://archive.is/6126j New RadInclusive Radqueer flag], equiradqueer.</ref>:
 
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Flag for queers that love all sorts of identitys. Even “problematic” ones like transable,trace, transage, ect.
 
+ supporting paraphilas.
 
Basically all good faith identitys. Even the ones the “inclusionists” won’t touch.
 
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- equiradqueer<br>
 
<gallery>
File:New radqueer flag.png|thumb|left|The new radqueer flag
</gallery>
 
This flag became the main radqueer flag and is still actively in use.
 
On July 1st, 2022, a blogger p-30-w reuploaded the old flag and posted the following definition<ref>[https://archive.is/lb9mc RadQueer (updated 1.2)], p-30-w.</ref>: 
 
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RadQueer is unconditionally inclusive of:
ALL trans-x/transid identities (and supports all their social and medical transitions)
ALL paraphilias and the multiplicity of their related contact stances (anti-contact, complex-contact, neutral-contact, restricted-contact, pro-contact). — Pro-c’s on “potentially harmful paraphilias” (if acted upon) are completely welcomed in the RadQueer community if they stay behaviorally non-offending/non-active. Ex-offenders are welcomed too! Debating on contact stances is totally acceptable as long as it doesn’t directly incites to committing offenses ~
 
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As RadQueer is strongly in favor of morphological and cognitive liberty, it is also indisputably pro medpunkism and xenomaladies.
Radqueer is strictly against all forms of antisexualism/erotophobia as this system of oppression is responsible for the exacerbation, or creation, of the stigma against paraphilias/atypical sexualities and sexual expressions.
Radqueer is against ageism, adultism and ableism —
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- p-30-w<br>
 
Judging by the style of the posts, it's possible that p-30-w was foucault-divine-mephisto after an account suspension. However, it is not confirmed.<br>
 
As one can see from these texts, with time the label "radqueer" lost the aspect of automatic inclusion of everything non-normative into queerness. The focus shifted onto being queer and being paraphiliac, transid, or supportive. Nowadays there is no agreement in the radqueer community on whether these identities are inherently queer or no.<br>


It is also important to note that this label stays quite niche, and most people it was supposed to be inclusive of do not identify with it.
== Subjective interpretations ==


== Radqueer emoji code ==
Contrary to popular belief, contact-neutrality does not necessarily denote apoliticality. One may consider oneself contact-neutral, but support one or more, sometimes even all of the other sides of contact discourse, their concepts or ideas, yet refrain from directly campaigning for any of them or spreading as objectively true.  For example, many contact-neutral people put map unity first, preach tolerance of all maps, and view contact labels and radical representatives of either stance as a potential threat.<br>


Emojis have been used sometimes as euphemisms for stigmatized identities. The world map emoji (🗺️), for instance, is sometimes used by maps. There were also several cases of false attribution of emojis to maps: in 2019 antis accused maps of using the pear emoji (🍐) as an identity, and several months later - the clown face emoji (🤡). This resulted in a "map emoji of the month" joke, where the Twitter map community would collectively vote for a new emoji each month and later put it in display names and bios.<br>
This fully applies to those who believe that contact discourse is the cause of disputation between maps, and therefore seek to prevent aggressive contact discourse in order to avoid the separation of one side or the other, as well as any kind of social polarization within the community. At times this implies the use of any means, and thus the possibility of political agitation for unity regardless of the contact label, rather than for the ideas of acceptability or unacceptability, healthiness or unhealthiness of relationships with youth.<br>


It is unclear whether the radqueer emoji code took inspiration from these events. The code assigns unique emojis and emoji combinations to paraphiliac, transid, and other identities<ref>[https://radqueeremojicodes.carrd.co/ RadQueer Emoji Code].</ref>. According to this code, minor attraction can be presented as any of the following emojis: cocktail glass (🍸), sun (☀️), world map (🗺️).<br>
== Misconceptions ==


== Derivative terms ==
Pro-contact and anti-contact radicals both falsely accuse contact-neutral people of secretly belonging to the opposite side. Being contact-neutral is also different from being [[contact-complex]], because the latter implies a system of complicated and sometimes rather detailed views


Alternative terms and subcategories for radqueerness were proposed. They typically follow the same pattern, where the root "rad" is replaced with some other word. For instance, "safequeer" is a term for anti transid and anti paraphilia people who still want to signal defense of more palatable non-normative identities<ref>[https://www.tumblr.com/safequeer/695288794403012608/safequeer?source=share Safequeer].</ref>. A tumblr blog blankqueer is archiving them<ref>[https://blankqueer.tumblr.com/ blankqueer].</ref>. 
=== Difference from contact-complex ===


== References ==
As noted above, a person who positions themselves as a contact-neutral may at the same time support or adhere to any other already existing position, so there can possibly be an overlap between contact neutrality and the views that fall under the definition of [[contact-complex]] or any other ideology in some instances, which does not create any contradictions with the lexical and sociological definitions of the contact neutrality concept. However, these terms per se are not identical.
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Contact-neutral or contact neutral is an identity in contact discourse. Contact-neutral people do not consider themselves either pro-contact or anti-contact and typically oppose being grouped with either.

Meaning

Being contact-neutral can mean not having strong opinions on the ethics of youth age gap relationships or refusing to express opinions and pick a side. Those who hold this label agree that they don't identify as neither pro-, complex- nor anti-contact, and usually do not associate their personal stances with those listed. The underlying reasons are highly individual. Very often contact-neutral people dislike contact discourse and consider it counterproductive and irrelevant, and sometimes this label is adopted by those who used to align with either pro or anti-contact positions, but ended up no longer wanting to engage with this discourse. Some contact-neutral people actively invest in other spheres of activism, such as creating support networks for maps or educating people about youth liberation, and simply avoid political statements on the topic of relationships between adults and children as way less important. Some choose to exist in the map community apolitically.

Subjective interpretations

Contrary to popular belief, contact-neutrality does not necessarily denote apoliticality. One may consider oneself contact-neutral, but support one or more, sometimes even all of the other sides of contact discourse, their concepts or ideas, yet refrain from directly campaigning for any of them or spreading as objectively true. For example, many contact-neutral people put map unity first, preach tolerance of all maps, and view contact labels and radical representatives of either stance as a potential threat.

This fully applies to those who believe that contact discourse is the cause of disputation between maps, and therefore seek to prevent aggressive contact discourse in order to avoid the separation of one side or the other, as well as any kind of social polarization within the community. At times this implies the use of any means, and thus the possibility of political agitation for unity regardless of the contact label, rather than for the ideas of acceptability or unacceptability, healthiness or unhealthiness of relationships with youth.

Misconceptions

Pro-contact and anti-contact radicals both falsely accuse contact-neutral people of secretly belonging to the opposite side. Being contact-neutral is also different from being contact-complex, because the latter implies a system of complicated and sometimes rather detailed views

Difference from contact-complex

As noted above, a person who positions themselves as a contact-neutral may at the same time support or adhere to any other already existing position, so there can possibly be an overlap between contact neutrality and the views that fall under the definition of contact-complex or any other ideology in some instances, which does not create any contradictions with the lexical and sociological definitions of the contact neutrality concept. However, these terms per se are not identical.

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