oxytocin quoted Against Purity by Alexis Shotwell
The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. …
Because gender is already relational, we don't just need the freedom to change our own gendered selves; we need the freedom to change the gendered world. Taking up practices of freedom through shaping open normativities, through claiming beauty in the face of invisibility (or worse), changes social relations and, thus, the world. This nonvoluntarist activity might not look like any freedom associated with the liberal-individual self, though it may require the recognition and dignity affiliated with that subject position. It will, however, be more adequate to our messy, complex, hopeful lives. For those lives, we need practices of open normativities to pursue visions and practices hospitable for worlds to come, to determine what deserves a future.
— Against Purity by Alexis Shotwell (Page 163)
Alexis Shotwell mentions SRLP as one example for a group shaping normativities: “Rather than simply contesting one normative story, they expand the criteria for changing gender status and mark the creation of narratives to account for and produce other modes of doing gender.”