#mind you the post i am pretty sure precipitated this did not even feature self harm but just scars broadly

[ghelgheli]

Hey, I don't want to come off as whiney or like you did some horrible evil bc you didn't, but can you tag imaged depicting self harm? I really like your account, and I would love to keep fallowing you, but yeah...

Hope you have a good night !

i appreciate that you're asking this so nicely. i also think that my tumblr might just not be for you—i understand wanting a tag for this, but i haven't felt comfortable tagging it, because i can neither adjudicate what "counts" as "self-harm" nor do i want to be applying the term as an external observer to instances where it may not be thought of in this way by the subject. i think that to a large extent the conceptual boundaries of "self-harm" are political and far more informed by notions of health and productivity than they are by concerns for agency and autonomy. it's something i have strong feelings and thoughts about as someone who likes my own scars. i certainly cannot tag them offline. hope you have a nice night as well 🐐