aroacepagans:

Voidpunk as a concept is absolutely fascinating to me. 

For centuries certain groups have been labeled as “subhuman” or “un-human” for one characteristic or another and for centuries those groups have yelled back “no we’re not!” and fought tooth and nail to be seen as wholly human. But now there’s a whole sub-community of people from these groups turning around and saying without a trace of irony “Sure, I’m not human, what of it?”

And honestly? Whether it’s intentional or not, that mindset almost does a better job of humanizing these marginalized groups then the insistence that they’re human does. When people try to deny you of your humanity it’s because they know you are human and they know that denying that hurts you. So When you instead chose to own that lack of humanity it rips away the power of dehumanization and the people trying to hurt you are basically left having to argue you into believing that you’re human before they’re able to do harm. And while doing this arguing they will always, always disprove their reasoning for why you’re not human in the first place. In a sense, voidpunk uses the bigot’s arguments against them.    

That’s what makes the whole concept of voidpunk so unbelievably radical in my mind. It totally switches the dialog.

I don’t really consider myself to be voidpunk, but I love the concept and I love watching that community grow. It’s amazing to see and I can’t wait to see what people do with it.