Maya

I sometimes teach a seminar course in which we read all three of the books that Rawls published during his lifetime. I always start by cautioning students that the biggest challenge in reading Rawls’s work is figuring out why it is so important – because it seems incredibly dull (normie, basic, etc.). My best suggestion for overcoming this challenge, when reading A Theory of Justice, is to go into it thinking “this is the book that killed Western Marxism,” and then focus on figuring out how it managed to do so.

This is a short but useful post situating Rawls (and Nozick) in the debate over "analytical Marxism", which I think has helped clarify for me why these guys are considered so important.

So I have recently discovered I’m Polyamorous!

I had the thought before, but due to insecurities and my own personal problems I dropped it!

Now that I’m happy, healthy, and confident

I’m definitely polyam! I have SO MUCH LOVE and affection to give!!

And my dom wants us to get a girlfriend to share 🥰🥰🥰

Things are all looking up and bright for me and I’m excited to learn more about this new self discovery

(Not in colored text cuz this is important)

Ok to reblog

This is for lesbians and other sapphic folx

We deeply struggle to understand the natural diversity of bodies because we only see naked bodies in a sexual context. We are taught that seeing nudity is somehow inherently harmful, especially to children. We struggle to differentiate between sexually suggestive and sexually explicit material.

It fucks up the way people think about and talk about sex ed. It fucks up the way people think about and talk about breast feeding. It fucks up the way people think about and talk about queer folks. It feeds into fatphobia and ableism and is all rooted in this deeply harmful puritanism.

These parental powers over children effectively enable parents to use the threat of violence or confinement to force their children to do whatever the parent desires, so long as it falls outside of narrowly-defined abuse statutes. Likewise, children can be forced by their parents to abstain from anything they are not legally required to do, such as attend school, no matter how unhelpful this is for them. Children can be coerced in this way into participating in nearly all varieties of illiberal indoctrination, from ex-gay movement conversion camps to reactionary political or religious programs, to more seemingly innocuous activities like sports, music lessons, or compelled social bonding with relatives that would nonetheless be degrading to an unwilling participant. That people commonly express toleration for even those parenting choices they profoundly disagree with under the belief that it is not right to tell someone how to raise their “own” children reflects how pervasively accepted parental powers are.

Depriving children of the equal protection of the laws by privileging parents to commit what would otherwise be battery, domestic violence, kidnapping, and false arrest under the parental discipline exception is far from the only way the state grants parents rights against their children. The state also directly imposes legal duties on children to obey parental authority. The most dramatic examples of these legal duties are found in the ungovernable, unruly, or incorrigible minor laws, where children who disobey their parents may be charged with a juvenile status offense. Defying parents under these status offense laws can trigger direct state coercion against children in the form of court-mandated probation or even imprisonment in a juvenile detention facility. A significant number of states continue to maintain runaway laws that allow conviction of a child away from home without parental permission for a juvenile status offense. Most states that do not define this as a formal offense will nonetheless have procedures for police to detain children who are away from home without parental permission. Children who repeatedly run away are often regarded as children in need of services and may be forcibly confined to the same detention facilities where juvenile offenders are incarcerated. It is a crime in most places in the United States to aid a runaway, contribute to the delinquency of a minor, or both."

This eventually morphed into me literally fucking the natural terrain around me. I'd go tribbing with tree trunks and grind snowbanks until my junk was numb from the cold or raw from the friction. Lie down in the depressed grass and discarded hair where animals had slept and feel it against my back as I climaxed. It felt like I was a rutting animal and was indescribably sexy.

I stopped doing this when I was around 17 and an ant bit my genitals, which was hot in the moment but stayed swollen far longer than was probably healthy. I still miss living in a place where I could find truly private wilderness to do that in without risk of exposure to human observers (even if there was risk of stepping on unexploded ammunition and ticks).