The Politics of Starvation- cross posted

[punkisdead]

I want to do a "cyber ethnography" on politically progressive people or acivists/would be activists who have suffered through or are suffering through eating disordered behavior

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[daisychainriot]

Hi, I'm a new member of this community and I know what you mean I think. I've been struggling with anorexia and bulimia for the last four years of my life. I don't know if I would define the disorder itself as political, but I know that often I would feel driven by a sense of fuility. As an activist, the more enmeshed in activist culture and the more part of a counterculture ( d.i.y. culture, anarchist projects like Food not Bombs/Books to Prisoners) the more I concentrate my energy and my emotions on making change. I feel constructive. The more introverted my anger becomes, the more likely I will hurt myself instead of putting myself to use. And the more hopeless I feel about the state of the world, about my place in it, the more my priorities shift to nihilistic self punishment.

-thanks