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Charlotte Clymer🏳️‍🌈 @cmclymer
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Soooo... ya girl is turning 32 in a few weeks (10/12), and for my birthday this year, I'm raising money for @runningstart, an organization that empowers young women and non-binary folks to run for office and engage in public service! But wait, it get so much better...
Because when you make a donation to said fundraiser:

1. I follow your account.
2. I give you a RT of anything you want (within reason).
3. I send you a handwritten "thank you" note.

So far, LOTS of folks have taken me up on this: @cathlyns, @katemacaluso, @owensbeeeee...
...@DonnaBesneatte, @AmyAria, @nothingisamiss, @gbarash11, and @Rachel_McRea just in the past 24 hours!

Anyway, they are happy, and I am happy. And these young folks will be happy when they get a scholarship to attend a program here in D.C. -- everyone wins!

And so....
Help me celebrate my birthday and inspire young women to be political leaders someday! Donate here: facebook.com/donate/2436782…

And if you're not an FB person, donate here: secure.runningstartonline.org/page/contribut…
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Every rational adult who's from the south knows the only generic name for any carbonated, sugary beverage--regardless of brand--is "coke".
"Hey, can you grab me a coke?"

"What kind?"

"Dr. Pepper"

"Got it."
I saw you liked this tweet, @DrPepper, and I want to assure you that I can be bribed for marketing on my account with several cases of Dr. Pepper.
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If you had told me a plot point of a movie was the villain attempting to ruin the career of an elected official by showing a video of them quite capably recreating the dance from “The Breakfast Club” in college, I’d have assumed it was some really bad Disney Channel flick.
Like... a kids movie where the villain is written like a 2x4 plank to the head in crayola.
The end of the movie is a big musical number and features Ally Sheedy—whom the producers have ironically cast as the villain in a wink to adult viewers—experiencing a redemption arc and leading the cast in a group dance.
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I can honestly say this has been the most productive year of my life, by far, and I'm really proud of that. I wrote a *lot* of things, but here are three things I wrote for which I'm most proud. (very short thread)
In April, I had this exchange with some transphobic religious folks, and the moment became something that has meant a lot to me.

In August, I got upset over a lot of the ageism I've seen seeing toward older folks, so I wrote this.

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So, as you probably expected I have some thoughts on these responses, I’ll try to get them out in an organized way, but a few caveats before I do:
I’ll be using “men” and “women” throughout this convo, not to mean specific individuals or “all men” or “all women”, and not to exclude trans and non-binary folks, but to mean the social construct of “men” and the social construct of “women”.
Typing out social construct each time is gonna take up some characters so I just wanted to make that distinction for more space.

This means that as a person you may not experience what I’m about to say and that’s cool! I’m working with the general idea of gendered norms.
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This is a great thread. I'd also add that if you sail through school academia with no issues and are not a cis boy, I guarantee you that if you have ADHD it won't be recognised.

Hell, any mental illness won't be recognised.

Because it is only productivity that is important.
ADHD presents completely differently in kids that are not cis boys. But all the diagnostics focus on (common) cis male symptoms.

Because a) patriarchy does this a lot to medicine, and b) the adhd cis boys aren't productive.
If you go through school finding it all easy and unchallenging, you don't realise that you have concentration issues, or depression or anxiety.

You start assuming that you're just lazy. Worthless.

As for depression, teenagers are meant to be sad, right?
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So.

Time for something a little different, and an idea I’ve been toying with—a look at how #transphobes try to frame their narrative within a claim that they are only “concerned” about trans people existing.

I think it’s safe to say that every trans person in the...

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community who isn’t a #transphobic arserag can now spot whenever the usual #hate groups and individuals deploy their dog-whistles to denigrate trans people, especially trans women, but it is all too easy to forget that for the average cis person with no experience of...

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Women in tech don’t need promoting or distinguishing from men. We (and folks from other/intersecting marginalised groups) need including as equals, not some kind of “special treatment” which continues to only value us as tokens or others. That is inherently sexist.
Distinguishing women from men is often harmful (not least to non-binary folks) as it perpetuates useless and negative stereotypes.

The only way we need distinguishing is through raising our voices and work above privileged men in order to level the horribly unequal status quo.
And doubly so for people of colour, LGBTQIA+ people, people with disabilities, older people, younger people, low-paid and unemployed people.

Listen to people from marginalised groups. Raise up their voices and promote their work. Enable them. Give them power.
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Imagine being this disconnected.

R29, Elite Daily and Mic ARE national publications. Maybe the Times should learn something from us.

They didn’t bother to profile @Ocasio2018’s campaign once because they wrote her off as nosy Brown girl with impossible dreams. We knew better.
It’s so insulting that you put us down as “websites most often associated with millennials and women” in opposition to “national publications” as if millennials and women couldn’t possibly care about so-called serious issues. This is such a comemierda approach.
I’ve loved the Times for a long time, but maybe they should stop believing their own internal bullshit and start paying attention about what’s happening outside. Don’t discard women, particulary working class WOCs, just because they don’t fit the narrative you’re familiar with.
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I love that on #InternationalWomensDay we take the time to celebrate women, it's brilliant. What would be even more brilliant is if we did this every day. For the next 365 days, I am going to add a Tweet a day in celebration of women from around the world 🌍 Let's get started 👇
Day 1: @drpriaero is an Aerospace Engineer / Senior Research Associate at @UniofOxford's Department of Engineering Science, researching fluid dynamics & thermodynamics of jet engines 🚀 #IWD2018 #IWDEveryDay
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