Empowered Multiplicity

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Empowered Multiplicity (sometimes EM) was an identity and movement that developed in the online multiple community beginning around 2000 centered on healthy and natural multiplicity. Empowered multiples believed that there was nothing inherently wrong with multiplicity and that multiples were capable of living productive lives without integration, as well as opposing "sensitivity" features in other communities such as trigger warnings. They felt ostracized by what they perceived to be the mainstream medical MPD/DID community, sometimes called survivor multiples.

Empowered multiplicity was not originally coined as a trend or movement, but instead to give a name to less "traditional" multiple experiences - "natural, non-amnesiac, not needing nor wanting integration." It was not meant to divide empowered and survivor multiples.

Many traumagenic systems associate the community with anti-psychiatry mindsets and harassment.

Essays

 * Empowered: A New Brand of Multiple by Sharon of Anachronistic Army (2000)
 * The Politics of Language, copy by Jeren Tay'avamar of Shaytar (2000)
 * The Empowered Multiple by Teresa and JJ of the Lemarath System (2001)
 * What Is Empowered Multiplicity, copy by Jade of Shaytar (2001)
 * What is a Survivor Anyway? by JR of the Council (2001)
 * In the News by Gynia of The Wampi (2001)
 * Reclaiming the Power by The Shire (2001)
 * Empowered or Survivor or Both?, copy, another by Hyjinx of Volalupi (2001)
 * We Are Not Victims: Empowerment Among Support Groups on the Internet by the nothing network (2002)
 * Survivorship and Empowerment: Not Mutually Exclusive by Azusa of Amorpha (2003)
 * What Empowerment Is Not by Azusa of Amorpha (2003)

In the News

 * Are Multiple Personalities Always a Disorder? by Tori Telfer (2015)

Criticism

 * Victim, Survivor or Empowered? by The Shire (2001)
 * Empowered Multiplicity by verity (2004)
 * History Of The Non-Dissociative Plurality Community by Sunflower (2020)
 * “System” is a Medical Term …And Other Things the “Empowered Multiples” Movement Hid From Us by Remy (2021)
 * History of Syscourse by Sunflower (2022)

Websites

 * Astraea's Web
 * Dark Personalities
 * Pavilion Hall
 * The Two Courts