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The earliest thing I ever sneaked downstairs to watch as a kid was Eddie Murphy on SNL.

I can't watching it live but I am grateful for those who are tweeting about it.
*watch*
Also, someday I will tell the story about how I sneaked in the side door of an Eddie Murphy RAW concert at Princeton when I was 16 with my sister and it basically scarred me for life.

Red leather pants and all.
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Elizabeth C. McLaughlin
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The next person who lectures me about sugar consumption here is getting blocked.

I am a grown adult who can manage her own food intake and that of my children.

Policing the food intake/judgment of other women is patriarchy personified even dressed up in GOOP clothing. Stop it.
This has happened about a dozen times on my feed in the last few weeks and I’m seeing it everywhere in body and fat-shaming posts. Just. Stop. Let people BE.

PS. People get sick for all sorts of reasons. The most common one is VIRUSES, not lollipops.
Last point: if you wouldn’t tell a woman not to get an abortion or birth control or a haircut she wants, you shouldn’t tell a woman what she should & shouldn’t eat.

To quote a great book I got for my kids in the last few weeks, I AM THE BOSS OF MY BODY.

Thank you & peace out.
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Elizabeth C. McLaughlin
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1. Book deal (with manuscript that hopefully will be done by 12/31
2. One tweet thread turned into 800+ events worldwide @Lights4Liberty to end US detention camps
3. Started production on a new film project that I’m still not allowed to talk about

...and loved a lot through it
Did not manage to give up my obsession with typos and twitter not having an edit button close parens and thank you
Also gonna add that this was one of the hardest years of my life in a lot of other ways I don’t talk about and I’m ready for 2020 like you wouldn’t believe. Bring it on.
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Elizabeth C. McLaughlin
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I don't know why, don't ask, but I have this profound feeling that 2020 is when we shake democracy to its foundations and turn this whole thing around.

I can't tell you why, but I have this sense that it will burn until the ashes birth what's coming next, and this is that year.
Weirdly, I keep having blowbacks to Y2K, when I was in London with the *worst* guy, sick as a dog-- was supposed to be on Thassos, in Greece, but I was too sick to board a plane, and I ended up in a freezing flat in Clapham, watching this whole "disaster is about to strike!". . .
. . . with him & his sister & her new husband, on the BBC. I have this distinct memory of soaking in a scalding tub with peppermint oil, thinking that the worst thing in the world that could happen aside from that misery was (cough) the end of the international banking system.
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