The Consistency Paradigm

Emma Barnes
6 min readNov 20, 2022

A fabric of expectations holds together THE DEAL™ in which we live. We’re expected, for example, to partner with someone of “a different sex” (hetero-normativity). We’re expected to read and respect non-explicit social cues (class-normativity, whiteness & neuro-normativity). And we’re expected to perform genders given to us as children…

Emma Barnes

Autistic, trans, survivor, abolitionist @friedkrill on Twitstagram