Relationship anarchy

Relationship anarchy (sometimes abbreviated RA) is the application of anarchist principles to intimate relationships. Its values include autonomy, anti-hierarchical practices, lack of state control, anti-normativity, and community interdependence.[1][2][3] RA is explicitly anti-amatonormative[4] and anti-mononormative[lower-alpha 1] and is commonly, but not always, non-monogamous.[3][5][6] This is distinct from polyamory, solo poly, swinging, and other forms of “dating”, which may include structures such as amatonormativity, hierarchy of intimate relationships, and autonomy-limiting rules.[2][5][7] It has also been interpreted as a new paradigm in which closeness and autonomy are no longer considered dilemmas within a relationship.[8]

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Andie Nordgren popularized the term "relationship anarchy"[2][3][6] in her 2012 Tumblr essay "The short instructional manifesto for relationship anarchy"[9] that she translated from her own Swedish-language "Relationsanarki i 8 punkter".[10] Other relevant writings exploring this topic within a similar time frame include "A Green Anarchist Project on Freedom" and "Love and Against the Couple Form".[11]

Workshops at OpenCon 2010 discussed relationship anarchy,[12] and the Open University professor Dr. Meg Barker discussed it in a 2013 presentation.[13] In the International Non-Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies Conferences, since 2016, different aspects of relationship anarchy have been studied.[14][15] In March 2020, the first book dedicated monographically to RA was published, so far only in Spanish: "Anarquía Relacional. La revolución desde los vínculos".[16]

See also

Notes
  1. That which is mononormative, (or "mono-normative"), encourages monosexual orientations (namely straight and gay), to the exclusion bisexual and pansexual orientations.

References
  1. "The Difference Between Relationship Anarchy and Non-Hierarchical Polyamory". Relationship Anarchy. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  2. "The Great Showdown of Hierarchical Polyamory vs. Relationship Anarchy". The New Modality. 2020-09-05. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  3. "Can relationship anarchy create a world without heartbreak? | Aeon Ideas". Aeon. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  4. "Are You Radical Enough to Be a Relationship Anarchist?". GQ. 2018-05-09. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  5. Lopez, Veronica (2021-10-15). "Here's What to Know About Relationship Anarchy". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  6. Heaney, Katie (2018-10-23). "What It's Like Being a Relationship Anarchist". The Cut. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  7. De las Heras Gómez, Roma (2018-12-20). "Thinking Relationship Anarchy from a Queer Feminist Approach". Sociological Research Online. SAGE Publications. 24 (4): 644–660. doi:10.1177/1360780418811965. ISSN 1360-7804. S2CID 220124663.
  8. Guillén, Ricardo. "Beyond romantic love – an analysis of how the dilemma of closeness vs. autonomy is handled in relationship anarchy discourse". LUP Student Papers. Lund University Libraries. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  9. Nordgren, Andie. "The short instructional manifesto for relationship anarchy", Andie's Log, July 6, 2012.
  10. "The short instructional manifesto for relationship anarchy". The Anarchist Library. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  11. "love relationship - His Secret Obsession Review". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
  12. "So what's OpenCon all about, then? | Polytical". 2013-12-03. Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
  13. "Rewriting the Rules of Relationships". prezi.com. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
  14. Meyer, Gesa (2017). Polynormativity!? – Revisiting the relationship anarchist critique of polyamory (PDF). 2nd Non Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies Conference. Sigmund Freud University, Vienna.
  15. Rose, Amanda (2017). Relationship Anarchy: Breaking the paradigm (PDF). 2nd Non Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies Conference. Sigmund Freud University, Vienna.
  16. Pérez Cortés, Juan Carlos. (2020). Anarquía relacional : la revolución desde los vínculos. Madrid: La Oveja Roja. ISBN 978-84-16227-33-4. OCLC 1176250441.
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