Loki 胡洛奇 ☭

Something something yards of Lenin

I tried it once and never again because it neither alleviated any pain nor did it even hurt so I can’t say I’m speaking from experience

But I’d imagine methods that remove bad habits / form new better habits also work for sh

So here’s some examples of what could help when you get urges/thoughts:

Removing anything you use for sh from your house or at least make it inconvenient to access so the process of getting it might take long enough to make you change your mind

Doing other things with your hands and body if you’re able to like cleaning, aggressive journaling, fidgeting, exercise, etc, just expending physical energy

And potentially controversially I know natural psychoactives and psychedelics can help with habits and addiction, the latter of which literally mechanically rewires the brain but I’d highly advise against either if you’re not in a safe environment and or calm and healthy mental state

Id also suggest having alcohol wipes around if your sh involves opening wounds because at the very least you shouldn’t have to worry about it leading to infections

Just try not to feel guilty about doing that because that just makes it worse. It’s your body and yours to do whatever you want with, but I’d suggest expelling emotions through improving your body and environment rather than diminishing your body. At least with current technology you only get one for your whole conscious experience so try to at least be able to keep it safe and be comfortable in it despite how difficult or unideal that may be. As a person who’s disabled, and trans in ways more than just gender I absolutely despise my body it feels completely foreign to me and like someone else’s it just feels so wrong but despite that I still try and just accept it and work towards making it a better thing to inhabit and feeling less foreign, but it’s a very long process.

I’m not the best person to explain landback so I’ll just share my perspective and how I might approach it:

I think the main priority should always be first and foremost the improvement of material conditions and the establishment of a DOTP. But after the DOTP is this is how I think it should be done:

Ideal solution: I think the US should be completely dismantled and replaced with a EU style mutual protection mechanism, something of a confederation, and it would be made up of fully sovereign bioregional federations.

The borders of these countries would be purely geographical, and the subdivisions would be based on the territories of the countries that were here prior. The boundaries would be drawn in whole or with great collaboration with indigenous people.

The main priority of landback from what I’ve picked up talking to indigenous people is for the land to be respected, the land should not be seen as a resource to be exploited.

As for what to do with the settlers I personally hold a more radical perspective; ALL settlers must assimilate into the culture and customs of the land they occupy to a reasonable extent, it should be similar to if you as an American moved to Asia or Africa, I believe the only way for true reconciliation to be archived is for indigenous countries to be seen as what they are, countries. Nation states formed around common ethnicity, culture, and language. And I don’t think assimilation would be that difficult as it has happened many times in the past, including Cascadia, some initial eastern settlements, Cajun culture, Mexico, and to a lesser extent African Americans as even though they aren’t assimilated to any native cultures they were brought here against their will so I think they also deserve special consideration.

But at the end of the day it doesn’t really matter what I think, this should be up to the people who actually have thousands of years of history with this land to decide how it functions, maybe that won’t even be necessary and a superintelligent AI could create some perfect solution, idk. But as settlers I think the first step is just recognizing that we are indeed settlers, that this is not our home, and if we want to still call this place home we should be invited as equals. And the material conditions and liberation of the proletariat will always remain the absolute most important initial goal of a revolution, I’d prefer natives be comfortable and equal members of society even if they are stateless then to have a state but be neglected by their leaders and exploited by foreign capital, our goal is not to create another situation like “post colonization” Africa (it’s not really post colonial).

Here’s some of my favorite resources:

https://native-land.ca/

https://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl/

https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3701e.ct008649/

https://www.oneearth.org/navigator/

https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/2017/10/25/bioregions-of-north-america/

Here’s a map of my bioregion Cascadia