Humble academic conversant philosophy, interrogating why we can't settle on a ethics based in removing contamination or suffering or bad things or stripping down to some innocence, especially in realms of consumption or oppression. Points in a collective interconnected liberatory direction, from topics including colonial settling, AIDS and disability and transgender activism, climate and interspecies justice, and that to be human (without overly centering humanity) is to be impure, contingent, and political.