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I usually ignore Valentine’s Day and I rarely talk or write about love. But much like with religion, if you don’t claim your right to shape, critique and make demands of love...
...if you don’t stake a claim, even if you don’t practice–you cede the ground to the absurd, the foolish, and the nonsensical.

So here I am, staking my claim to love, as a feminist in love and in my 50s.

i.e. I am both practicing and preaching.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-a-femi…
I wanted nothing to do with love when I was younger. I started having nightmares when I was 17 that I’d married the wrong man.

My subconscious knew something my conscious took years to understand: I was neither heterosexual nor monogamous.
#ValentinesDay
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Happy #ValentinesDay2023 lovely people! 🧵

As many of you will most likely know, I have never had a partner of any description in my entire life, mainly as a result of laws governing joint income for people in receipt of social security. I have long been campaigning to… 1
change these laws and that fight is still ongoing. However this thread is not about an explanation of the laws and the general consequences, you can read more about that in the piece that I will link at the bottom, although it will be slightly outdated for reasons which…2
I will shortly explain. For the past two years, ever since I began the #RightToLove campaign, it was my belief that it would be better for me not to seek a life partner for several reasons. The first being that I didn’t want to risk becoming financially dependent on her…3
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Made in @figma with love <3. Happy Valentine's Day!

Tutorial later today.

Prompt by @realvjy
#Figbruary2023 #ValentinesDay2023
Some time ago @Figmatelier challenged me to recreate the effect @rogie made in hisexceptional Noise&Texture plugin but with @figma capabilities only
I tried several approaches, including the Fourier transformation, but they all were not smooth enough.
And I also found some fun bugs. On this example all the instances have 1ms delay, but trigger at a different time @figma
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"Shankar taught me to believe in love", says Lalita Bansi about her husband.⁠

#StrongerThanEver #Sheroes #TrueLove #ValentinesDay #ValentinesDay2023 #ValentinesWeek
In 2012, Lalita's face was severely disfigured when her cousin threw acid at her over some minor argument at a family wedding in her home town of Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh.⁠
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So many surgeries later, too, my face was deformed.
In need of a change, I moved from Azamgarh to Kalwa in Thane near Mumbai," says Lalita.⁠

One day, Lalita dialled the wrong number. Or so she thought.⁠
A fortnight after making the call, the Mumbai woman received a call back from the number.⁠
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