ABSTRACT
Creating greater capacities to go forth in a homelike manner in the world can be a result of some self-directed health work. One of the ways in which the good health imperative shapes us is it provides us what direction a life well lived should take. While certainly a life of health and vitality is ceteris paribus preferable to one of illness and suffering, one can question if the work involved in producing that life might be spent in other projects or investments. Heteronormativity depends upon a set of implicit norms around gender and sexual orientation. Sara Ahmed writes that that assumption that humans are all straight is a background created by repeated acts of “straightness.” Simone de Beauvoir does not locate freedom in satisfying one’s consumption or producing what has been predetermined as valuable. Rather, freedom is the capacity to be authentic to one’s ambiguous condition.
