User:Cleopatran Apocalypse

She/her.

All the things that I've done[edit]

(Yes, I am a huge Killers fan!)
Like I suppose everyone who edits an online encyclopedia as a hobby, I bring a hodgepodge of personal and professional interests to the table. Overall, my expertise and interests are in the social sciences (if we may consider sociology a "science", YMMV), critical theory, anti-oppression, theories of marginalization, and political theory generally. I also have a (long past) professional acquaintance with a range of obscure medieval topics.
My entree to the project was creating the page for Anastasia Lin, a young Falun Gong activist, while seeing her a bunch in the media at the time. I made the page on Allyship too plus the one on deadnaming and porn studies (and moved the one for the journal to its own page). I also bulked up the page on Ernst Kantorowicz's The King's Two Bodies. Next will be gun studies, critical religious studies, and probably a few other sub-fields in the critical genre.
I want to fill out the overall topic area in the critical studies sub-fields, and then think about how the main page on critical theory can be improved and made more sensible to people who keep hearing about "cultural Marxism" from conservatives but do not understand how the Frankfurters came about, what they were responding to, and how inevitable it all was. I am never sure where I ultimately end up on the matter of critical theory — I think the "grievance" hoaxers do make some good points, but ultimately go too far by saying that this set of theoretical tools is useless and pernicious. Critical theorists also make extremely important points — but sometimes also go too far. In any case, there is a lot to do on the broad theme on Wikipedia. Over my few years on here I've spent far more time just reading pages and policies and dumb arguments than I have actually usefully contributing, which I usually do in random bursts.
I've found myself, probably stupidly, in the ongoing controversies related to the Falun Gong on Wikipedia. I find the area both highly off-putting and fascinating simultaneously. Certainly a topic that requires a critical approach.
What's with the username and page affect? As Baldrick put it: the long answer is "A whim." The short answer? "Whim!"