Last Tuesday night I was at a visioning session [and yes, I would like a less ableist term for that] for a group I've been involved with for much of this year, and I repeatedly said that social justice isn't where my passion is. And just about every time I said it, I felt a little twinge like I was lying -- because fat pol and disability pol and ( Read more... )

(Sidenote: thistlerose is talking about poly marriages.)

alixtii is talking about fictional desire.  Much of it makes my brain hurt trying to process (I was a bad English major and didn't even touch philosophy.) but one thing that struck me both in the post itself and in comments thusfar was the idea that if these characters we say we desire showed up on our ( Read more... )