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My period came. 1st thought: when will it stop, perimenopause is kicking my fucking ass. 2nd thought: do I have enough products? One of the most heart shattering stories I’d ever read was about having your period during a war,no water,no menstrual products straitstimes.com/world/middle-e…
We rarely hear stories like that because we rarely hear the stories of women. During “big events” like war and revolution we hear the stories of men. Men are out in the world and their stories are big. Women are at home and their stories are small.
At least that’s how we’re socialized. Men’s stories are about “outside” (the world) and women’s stories are about “inside” (the home). What happens outside is important and valued. What happens inside is ignored and not valued.
Women’s stories we’ve been told are small and unimportant because they’re about the home and that’s boring. What women do at home is not important because it’s not “paid work”; they’re not paid for it because it’s not important. At least that’s what we’ve been told/socialized.
And here we are! So many of us are at home, inside, working inside and working from home. Is it still small and unimportant? Is it still boring and undervalued and not worthy of payment? During a global pandemic what will become of stories from home? Of “inside.” #COVID19
Will home now be the “important” world from which “big” stories will come? Will we appreciate the kind of work that is performed at blme now that it’s not just women “working from home”? #CoronavirusOutbreak
For many, this is not the first time to be under curfew/lockdown/disaster/crisis. They have had their “pandemics.”

For some, those kinds of things happened “over there.” Or to a community they ignored.

This is affecting the whole world. Not a distant “over there.” #coronavirus
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