Talk:Autonomous space

White male safe space
I tried to look but I could not find any examples of white male safe spaces. Can someone give an example, or remove it from the article preamble. I'll wait but if no examples are forthcoming. I'll be BOLD. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:14BA:4E7:C600:F858:ADDB:1B1C:D025 (talk) 14:23, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Merge proposal
I propose this article is merged with Safe-space, which for some reason has been written to be specifically about LBGT issues, even though (in the UK at least) the meaning is not restricted in that way. As a result we have the ridiculous situation that Safe space redirects to Autonomous space rather than to Safe-space! As the two topics are short, heavily overlap and are indeed probably synonymous in some contexts (e.g. the UK?) there seems no point having separate articles. Ben Finn (talk) 12:04, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

I don't understand how Safe-space is the same as Autonomous-space. A safe space is intended to shield people from the daily harassment and prejudice people experience normally. A autonomous space may also function as a safe space, having rules or a CoC making it behave like that, however this is not the main intent of a Autonomous space. As I understand the term a Autonomous space is a space that is outside the traditional capitalist system, organizing events and providing a location for gatherings that would not make sense if they had to be profitable. Kingannoy (talk) 11:52, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

I'm confused about the distinction as well. I think if they are not to be merged, then at least some section clarifying the difference should be added. StigmaOfTruth (talk) 07:01, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Removing of the 'criticism'
The 'criticism' has nothing to do autonomous spaces. None of the 3 sources that were cited make any mention of autonomous spaces, and makes no sense in the context of this article. The 'criticism' reports on a somewhat obscure event where a professor was disciplined because he wrote a negative comments about fellow staff who banned racist, sexist and homophobic comments from their class room. The section was very confusing and I'm still confused as to why it was included in this article. It should be removed until it can be rewritten such that it actually makes sense in the context of this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LetheZephyrus (talk • contribs) 17:37, 20 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Agreed. - Ryk72 'c.s.n.s.' 03:34, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Reference to Wikipedia
Fellow Wikipedians, The Organizational behavior guidelines section refers to Wikipedia, including a reference to WP:HARASSMENT. While this is an important policy, it seems a little WP:UNDUE to include this in WP:MAINSPACE. I will remove the reference from this section, pending discussion here on appropriateness. - Ryk72 'c.s.n.s.' 07:58, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

NPOV
This article is written as though Wikipedia had just decided that feminist theory is truth. As fantastic as feminist theory might be, it isn't neutral, and writing articles like this presupposing the validity of feminist theory is like writing an article on division of labour from a Marxist perspective: Potentially enlightening and valuable, but definitely not appropriate to this platform.--137.50.24.45 (talk) 03:05, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Different perspective
This definition of a autonomous space does not match with the definition I have. This article describes only the exclusion of some people from a space. I'm more familiar with the definition given on the autonomous space category page: ""Autonomous space" has a meaning of a self-governing liberated zone in contemporary Anarchist activism." Usually I see this as a squat (or likewise cheap location) that is used to organize events that are not commercially profitable, usually kept running on volunteer labor and donations. Can someone enlighten me, am I confused with another term? Is this just a different perspective looking at the same term? Should the article not also include this definition? Kingannoy (talk) 09:25, 6 April 2017 (UTC)