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Jun 25, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
dig if you will a picture...the Purple Rain Album turns 36 today! it will sound just as good as it did in 1984 until the end of time because listen to it.

open.spotify.com/album/7nXJ5k4X… Image
how you gonna top an opener like Let's Go Crazy & a closer like Purple Rain? Take Me With U, The Beautiful Ones, I Would Die For U- Darling [Effin] Nikki & this 👇🏼

an absolute album. an absolute legend.
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Jan 22, 2021
The support of women's equality on the basis of their sex-class isn't bigotry. Women have been discriminated against for all of history based upon it, why shouldn't there be true equality be based upon it as well?
Instead we get acquiescence demanded as kindness, biological reality equated with bigotry & critical thinking abandoned for subterfuge or outright rage. But the support of women's equality on the basis of their sex-class isn't bigotry.
The immutable claim that a yearning equals a completely different material reality regardless of & in spite of its detriment to women? That is bigotry. The command to cede not only space but essence is bigotry.
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Jan 17, 2021
In just over a month, I've witnessed two distressing moments in Irish culture, the airing of The Hunger on @RTEOne & the release of the #motherandbabyhomes report. Two gross wounds; one inflicted, the other self inflicted.

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#TheHunger was harrowing; heartbreaking. I was incredibly moved by it, forced to imagine with much more clarity the struggle my Gr Gr Grandad went through as a child-what he must've seen, smelled, feared, felt. The sadness that must have permeated his life. It's near impossible
to reconcile the great imprint it's made on the story of every person on this island & on the story of those who had to leave. I feel slightly unique in being someone who, in a way, returned from that scar-an immigrant returned from an emigrant departed.

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Jan 16, 2021
i've been so moved by the poetry i've read lately. this is a thread of the few poems that have come across my timeline so far. i'd love to read more. if you've seen any others, i'd love to read them.

Voice by @Maj_Kelly
‘Six Ways to Wash Your Hands (Ayliffe, 1978): for the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation’ by @NiChurr.

another haunting piece by @NiChurr; Penance
(for a girl in trouble in 1951)

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Jan 14, 2021
While the historical disdain & hatred for women isn't a surprise, the severity of suffering & the unrevealed stories are frightening & devastating. I balk at what we don't know. This report covers 18/41 of these dark mills & only a fraction of the 231 years of their existence. 1/
I'm overwhelmed by the threads & accounts I've been reading over the last few days. I don't want to do it anymore, but at the same time I feel like we all need to bear witness to this atrocity. 2/
We rightly quiver at the though of the innocent babies. those pure beings so effectively eliminated in a fashion the worst of 20th century humanity could have provided; so callously offered up to strangers, given away by those who had no right to rend. 3/
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Nov 25, 2020
Today is the international day for the elimination of violence against women. The violence, harassment & inequity perpetrated & fostered by men against women must stop & it‘s up to men to stop it.

#WhiteRibbonDay
An est 6% of males are rapists, that's approx. 234mil worldwide. This stat comes from two different studies cited below on the veracity of the Enliven Project re: the legal issues around rape, prosecutions & concerns about false accusations.

yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/mee…
In the UK, the number of prosecutions & convictions for rape is down to the lowest level since annual recording began. In Ireland, 50% of women experience some form of sexual violence in their lifetime, compared to a fifth of men.

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Nov 24, 2020
the facts of biological reality & sexual dimorphism aren't unkind. just as the support of women's equality on the basis of their sex-class isn't bigotry. who is acting the bigot here? those calling for reflection & discussion or those calling for the removal of democratic rights?
you slandered every person who's spoken up for all the women who feel like they are being erased & for children to be able to lead the healthiest lives possible, both physically & mentally. you've lied about your intentions & cowardly turned off replies. it's unconscionable.
critical thinking is needed for a functioning society. this is an extremely complex issue with so many variations & side roads. but to lay baseless accusations & defame anyone asking for deliberation shows how flimsy your stance is.
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