A blog by Katie Cruz
A MAP In Love is supporting a new study conducted by Étienne Garant, a PhD student at the Université de Montréal in Quebec, Canada. The study seeks to better understand the challenges minor-attracted people face in their daily lives, and how they navigate them. Participation involves completing the questionnaire linked below, which includes questions about
I’m always thinking about Lucy. Even three years after last seeing her. Yesterday, I imagined what if I seen her out at a store? What would she say? What would she do? Did her parents feed her society’s narrative that I’m a monster, and change her opinion of me? Would she avoid me. Would she
A few days ago, I was directed to a Reddit post where someone was suicidal because they realized they were attracted to children. I created an account on Reddit and posted a reply with all sorts of resources to help. Next day, I log in, and I’m permabanned from that Subreddit. No reason given. I
I speak peace and love. Acceptance and understanding. Health, prosperity, and power. I speak liberation from the forces that deny our right to love. I speak courage to stand against adversity. I speak all of this for MAPs and youth alike. I speak unity, and collaboration within the MAP community. I speak a revolution, our
When I was a child, my career goal was to be “on TV.” I wanted to be famous, wanted to be a celebrity. Celebrities have it all, live a cool lifestyle, and their voice reaches a wide audience. But I never thought of the downsides of being famous. The constant attention, the scrutiny, the stalkers
How do you not care what you’re doing to these children? How can you attack this country of beautiful people? These children have done nothing wrong, yet they’ll grow up to be traumatized for life by your actions. Some may never even make it to adulthood. What kind of a monster can justify this? What
This was part of a conversation I had with a fellow MAP on May 24, 2023. So to be an out MAP, ideally, a lot of things have to line up. You have to make sure you’re safe – safe from vigilante violence, safe in your relationships, and safe in your financial wellbeing. For me,
Why I blocked Pawoo on the fediverse. I am a minor-attracted person. And my life’s calling is to serve the MAP community. But I don’t base my whole personality on my attraction to children. Yes, I am on a social media account dedicated to MAPs, because I relate most to other MAPs. I can be
An opportunity to participate in a discussion with researchers! From Science Director Allen Bishop at B4U-ACT: Hey everybody, We are looking for MAPs to take part in a discussion with researchers that will be held on Sunday, May 21st, from 11am to 12pm EST. This is part of the B4U-ACT Online Colloquium series. We are
For Immediate Release: 2023/05/12 MAP Merch Shop [email protected] We are aware of recent rumors that a member of the MAP Merch Shop team has been compromised. Those rumors are untrue. I am currently in contact with all of the team members. We do take security seriously at MMS, and will always do our due diligence