“Remember: Some of our most revolutionary ideas will someday be someone's status quo.” IdeasChangeRevolutionIdeologyStatus QuoNormativity Author:Jamie Arpin-Ricci
“From the very beginnings of our story as followers of Jesus, we have recognized and honoured the fundamental truth that every person is made in the image of God. Yet, while we are quick to celebrate those aspects of the divine image with which we personally relate, we all too quickly reject and denounce those that are different than ourselves as suspect or lesser than or sinful.” TruthJesusSinChristianityDivineTheologyImage Of GodConfirmation BiasNormativity Author:Jamie Arpin-Ricci
“If you see suspicious behaviour from someone who you can more easily identify with, you are more likely to give them the benefit of the doubt than those enacting the same behaviour but who you can not so easily identify with. This does not make you a bad person, it makes you a conditioned person. The quality of your character is, instead, measured by how you respond to that conditioning, both in the moment and in the rest of your life.” CharacterJusticeRacismPrejudiceEqualityDiscriminationSexismBiasConditioningNormativity Author:Jamie Arpin-Ricci
“Even for those who have chosen to fully accept and affirm their 2SLGBTQIA+ siblings in Christ, until we let go of our narrow and prideful belief in the supremacy of the “normal”, we will not only continue to perpetuate harm to the already vulnerable, but we will deny the Church the opportunity to encounter aspects of the Divine only found in those who “transgress” those false and narrow boundaries.” ChurchLgbtLgbtqSupremacyLgbtqiaTransgressiveNormativityChristianty Author:Jamie Arpin-Ricci
“Deviant' is the weapon of the normative to discredit and demonize the Other.” NormalOthernessDevianceNormativityNormativeDeviant Author:Jamie Arpin-Ricci
“One of the deadliest tools of powerful systems is narrow definitions of what is "normal" and the reduction of difference to deviance.” NormalDevianceNormativityNormative Author:Jamie Arpin-Ricci