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The second most viewed of my FEMINIST GIANT essays is a personal reflection on @LeoGrandeFilm feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-…
“Bitch” and “cunt” are not the worst things you could call a woman. Selfish is. Knowing what you want and taking it is filed under “selfish” in patriarchy’s dictionary. feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-… #GoodLucktoYouLeoGrande
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I'm turning 55 at the end of this month.
I'll be traveling so there's no going to my colourist for a fresh yellow like I did last year. So I might just buzz it all off and have a fresh head for a fresh start.
I wrote this to mark my birthday last year feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-des…
I'll be traveling so there's no going to my colourist for a fresh yellow like I did last year. So I might just buzz it all off and have a fresh head for a fresh start.
I wrote this to mark my birthday last year feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-des…
Ever since I learned that among the poet Muriel Rukeyser’s assignments for her writing students was to begin a poem with the words “I could not say,” I've been captivated by what I could not say.
So I've been writing my way into the silences.
So I've been writing my way into the silences.
Each successive birthday, I take stock of what I have not been able to say.
It’s like those notches on the doorframe that mark your growing height as a child. It shows me how far I’ve come in nudging my expression free, in shaking my desire loose from the grip of taboo.
It’s like those notches on the doorframe that mark your growing height as a child. It shows me how far I’ve come in nudging my expression free, in shaking my desire loose from the grip of taboo.
Watching @LeoGrandeFilm reminded me of how I had snatched desire from the jaws of shame.
Watch #GoodLucktoYouLeoGrande with your friends and talk about the ways shame has left its nasty imprint on you and how you fought it. Did you fight it?
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Watch #GoodLucktoYouLeoGrande with your friends and talk about the ways shame has left its nasty imprint on you and how you fought it. Did you fight it?
feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-…
Talk about shame because abortion bans are intent on punishing us for daring to take ownership of our bodies and our sexual desire outside of the norm.
They aim to police our bodies and punish us for sex.
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They aim to police our bodies and punish us for sex.
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Talk about shame and talk about abortion, because for as long as patriarchy can shroud abortion with silence it will continue to stamp it in shame. 
How often do you see a film that centres a woman in her early 60s who wants to fuck? #GoodLucktoYouLeoGrande
How often do films center a woman in her early 60s? I am 54yo and can barely watch films & TV shows these days because they’re too often about high school students or 31yos whose dilemmas are too far in my past to care about & whose parents are too peripheral to keep my attention
Heteronormative patriarchy’s designated shelf life for cisgender women is the age at which we cease to be its walking incubators. And yet here is a woman who not only wants to fuck feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-… #GoodLucktoYouLeoGrande
I love all my essays but I am especially fond of these two--about two of my favourite films recently--and thrilled that they are right next to each other at the top of my most popular essays:
On @allatoncemovie feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce
On @allatoncemovie feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce
Films that center older women are important. They keep showing us women with options.
We understand why women are denied a three-dimensional life, why their imagination is flattened out of daring to want any more than what they have. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #EverythingEverywhere
We understand why women are denied a three-dimensional life, why their imagination is flattened out of daring to want any more than what they have. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #EverythingEverywhere
Heteronormative patriarchy’s designated shelf life for cisgender women is the age at which we cease to be its walking incubators. And yet here is Nancy, a woman in her early 60s who not only wants to fuck but has planned--with time, money, and a "fuck-it" list--how she wants to.
How often do films center a woman in her early 60s? Rarer still is the film that centres a woman in her early 60s who wants to fuck. Patriarchy’s Map of Life for us women 50+ delineates a Hiking Trail Into the Kingdom of Shriveling Up and Fading Away. feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-…
My friend Saira had me over to her house for dinner with three other women in their 50s and so of course it was a most raucous night, not least because Rachel makes crochet vulvas with a bead in place of the clitoris and I chose a rainbow vulva
And we're all going to see @LeoGrandeFilm at the cinema together this week. I've already seen it and will gladly watch it again.
feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-… #GoodLucktoYouLeoGrande
feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-… #GoodLucktoYouLeoGrande
“Bitch” and “cunt” are not the worst things you could call a woman. Selfish is. Knowing what you want and taking it is filed under “selfish” in patriarchy’s dictionary. And by the time we meet Nancy, she is a woman determined, finally, to be selfish. #GoodLucktoYouLeoGrande
I cried as my selfishness met hers, as I recognized the heady terror of being done, finally, with obeying. I wrote about @LeoGrandeFilm feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-… #GoodLucktoYouLeoGrande
In one of their earliest scenes together, Leo asks Nancy “Why won’t you take what you want when it’s right here within reach?” He is what she wants. He is right there. Yet she wants to cancel the whole thing several times.
She was never allowed to want. #GoodLucktoYouLeoGrande
She was never allowed to want. #GoodLucktoYouLeoGrande
I watched Good Luck To You, Leo Grande three times and wrote about desire. #GoodLucktoYouLeoGrande
In @LeoGrandeFilm, Nancy Stokes (Emma Thompson) snatches desire from the jaws of ageism.
I snatched desire from the jaws of shame.
feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-… #GoodLucktoYouLeoGrande
I snatched desire from the jaws of shame.
feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-… #GoodLucktoYouLeoGrande
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Have you seen #GoodLucktoYouLeoGrande? Read my essay about it feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-…
Films that center older women are important. They show us women with options--and desire feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-… #GoodLucktoYouLeoGrande
Films also like #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce, where get a taste of options–the What If’s–available to her alter egos in other universes. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…
