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[nerdflighter]

Lately I've spent a lot of time thinking about the fact that I want an ideological framework to exist within. I'm the kind of person who likes having labels to identify with that I can throw around - I get a kick out of it - but the problem is that I don't know enough about ANY framework to make an educated guess about where I might fit. And I do want to fit, or at least find a bunch of words that I can call on. Here are, in no particular order, some things that I would like out of an ideological framework.

• the freedom to move around and change my opinions
• a basis in compassion and critical thinking at the same time
• something that allows me to express queerness and kinkiness and fluidity and neurodiversity
• the ability to ask a whole lot of questions 
• like, so many questions
• the freedom to be able to turn off caring about things once in a while without being penalised for it within the framework
• something that offers the possibility of a firm moral/ideological precept, preferably something about being compassionate and reducing net harm
• i don't fucking know dude

Yeah. Can anyone help?

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[hellofriendsiminthedark]

*waves hands wildly* I call myself a postmodernist, but I lean heavily towards being a postmodern poststructuralist. It's a great time. I can totally send you my complete collection of college pdf's. In general, queer studies is going to be your friend--especially self-identified feminist intersectional queer studies.

Serious answer which is still annoyingly pomo: Much like how people adapt religion to support all their individualized ideals (whether to promote queerness or white supremacy), ideological/theoretical frameworks can also be adapted/misread/shapen/elaborated upon to incorporate anything. Because of that, you can really adopt whatever ideology you want and not have to get too scrupulous about it if you feel like you're being contradictory, because people are contradictory and that's not necessarily a bad thing. But the flip side of that is that having an ideology backing how you live your life isn't going to save you from falling for things which go against that ideology.