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Aug 27, 2019 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Happy Born Day #CesáriaÉvora! 1st time I heard her I was inside out miserably married and so lonely. I walked into a bookshop playing Sodade and it was a lifeline. 3yrs later, divorced & with someone I loved I saw her live at the Beacon Theatre in NYC 2004
I don’t speak #Portuguese so I don’t understand but I *feel* Cesária Évora’s singing. And I imagine how those of you who don’t understand #Arabic experience Om Kalthoum.
I don’t talk enough about my disastrous marriage. I was in therapy and #CesáriaÉvora’s voice and music were like a warm embrace from a place of love I had forgotten existed. When someone says “This artist saves my life,” I KNOW! And seeing her in concert was such a gift.
Thank you all correcting me: #CesáriaÉvora sang mostly in Cape Verde Creole.

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Glory and power to the women in Iran who seized the narrative and become object and subject.

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Dear White Women Cheering Iranian Women:

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FEMINIST GIANT Global Roundup curated by Samiha Hossain:

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Jul 29
“…they were not playing at all, they knew exactly what they were doing…They knew the weak points of the boat, and they knew how to sink it,”

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feministgiant.com/p/dear-gladis
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Jul 8
Alice Munro chose her husband over the daughter he sexually abused.

The reason that you're seeing any defense or attempt to "understand" or deny that horror is because it's a reminder of how easily women become footsoldiers of the patriarchy.
Fame and wealth notwithstanding.

Alice Munro had both and still sold her daughter out in favour of the patriarchy.

And she reminds too many other women of how easily they footsoldier for the patriarchy too.
I have perhaps just one short story by Munro.

Her "legacy" means nothing to me.

And it should mean nothing to anyone now learning of her complicity in the sexual abuse of her daughter.

Yes, we're all "complicated" people but there's nothing complicated about enabling abuse. It's wrong.
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Jun 24
In 1977, two years before the Soviet invasion, revolutionary women’s rights activist Meena founded RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan) to fight patriarchy at every level in her country. feministgiant.com/p/fist-in-the-…

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White & Christian are considered norm and not dangerous in the U.S. 👇🏽

"GOP Sen Anthony Kern & his prayer team of anti-abortion extremists praying in tongues (that’s not an audio issue) that an 1864 law banning nearly all abortion becomes law again."
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