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Sep 23, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read Read on X
I typically hate when people say “I have a mother and a wife and a daughter” to explain their feminist stances. Cuz it should t take that.

But birth control is one issue I didn’t even come close to beginning to understand until I had a daughter entering puberty.
There are any number of health issues that can surface as women enter the bio reproductive stage of maturity.

Birth control is a tool that serves as an aid to many women on a number of fronts.

Denying millions of women access to it because folks don’t get science is whack.
I’ve seen women curled up on the floors, calling out of work, sitting in the clinic at school experiencing pain I could never imagine FOR A WEEK OUT OF EVERY MONTH.

And it’s different for every woman, because that’s how bodies work.

Maybe we should mind our business???
To be clear, I’m not some holier than thou feminist whose got it all figured out.

There are times where I automatically think “it can’t be THAT bad”

But that’s a goofy thought because:
1) I don’t have a uterus & will never know
2) people have died from doctors thinking that way
What is, and will continue to be, ignorant at best and inhumane at worst is that we would suggest to the word that our religion requires other people to suffer because we don’t understand how a friggen uterus works.

#KThanksBye

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Feb 18
Aight, this bout to be a long thread that’s less about Patriarchy Hannah (or whoever is behind this account) and more about what the existence of this account and the drama surrounding its exposure (and White People Business in general) tells us about ourselves as a society. 1/15 Image
First things first… whoever is behind that account straight up said “I was lyin” (which should have gone without saying. folks are severely lacking in discernment) and the response from some was “keep the account and turn it into parody.”

Beloved…. 2/15
It has been parody the whole time. It just wasn’t funny. And it will not be in the future either.

The reason the (far) right struggles with humor is that humor comes from the part of your soul that you injure by deliberately presenting as a fundamentally bad person. 3/15
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Dec 2, 2024
I have become FASCINATED by the biblical story of Isaac. 🧵

I had a shower thought that turned into a bit of a whale hunt for me.

But here it is: if you read Isaac as intellectually disabled, nothing about him makes less sense and a whole lot of stuff makes more sense. 1/7
Isaac’s parents were old as all get out when they had him.

100 & 90. And that’s a MAJOR emphasis in the story. “These people are REALLY old.”

Nowadays, advanced maternal age is associated with all sorts of potential complications. Including fetal chromosomal abnormalities. 2/7
But read the story! The name “Isaac” is explained as “people will laugh with us.”

But another possible rendering of the meaning of that name is “laugh *at* us.”

As in, “we’ll be laughingstocks.” Which would explain why Sarah reacted that way to Ishmael’s mirth. 3/7
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Nov 20, 2024
After the Civil War, the U.S. tried to build a multiracial democracy for the first time.

It mostly worked.

And many white southerners were LIVID. Never stopped plotting to roll it back.

They finally seized their opportunity in the aftermath of the election of 1876… 1/6
The results of the election were disputed, but ultimately settled when the Democrats accepted Rutherford B. Hayes as President… in exchange for federal troops being removed from the former Confederate states, marking the end of Reconstruction & multiracial democracy. 2/6
Time and again… whether it is the Three Fifths Compromise… the Missouri Compromise… the Compromise of 1877… whenever compromise is necessary for this nation to move forward, Black people have be sacrificed on the altar of American “progress.” 3/6
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Oct 29, 2024
When I was 17, an adult white man learned the teenaged white girl he was dating once liked me. He got my number & spent days threatening my life.

I’m not new to racism 😂

But I’ve been called a n——r on this app more in the past 6 months than I have in my entire life. 1/6
I’m not saying this for sympathy, but to show you the goal of what is being normalized in front of our very faces.

Online. At rallies. On cable news. In churches. Everywhere.

There are people who believe that their goals are best achieved with a less compassionate populace. 2/6
There are people who purport to follow Jesus warning other people who purport to follow Jesus about being *too* empathetic.

There are *leaders* willing to dehumanize the people they claim to want to serve.

And we do not have to let them succeed. 3/6
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Aug 30, 2024
I need us to realize something:

America has only resembled a democracy for less than 60 years. Since 1965. That’s when the Voting Rights Act passed.

That’s within the lifetime of both major party nominees for POTUS right now.

That’s how young this thing is.

AND… 1/7
For a full century before that (the majority of US history) we’ve been locked into our current two party structure.

All realignments happened either before (or directly because of) 1965.

Our current system is not going to nurture your dreams of a viable 3rd party.

UNLESS… 2/7
Unless we organize around voting reform.

The only path to viability for a world where voting for parties beyond the two parties that gave us the system we have now… is by demanding that we change the way voting works.

Like we did in 1965. 3/7
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Jul 18, 2024
I can understand a lot of reasons for not supporting Biden. I cannot understand any reasons for drawing false equivalencies between the weaknesses of these two candidates.

Yes, one of them is old and seems to be in decline.

And the other one does not believe in elections. 1/15
Perhaps I would understand more about the desire to draw these false equivalencies if we did not all watch January 6 happen on live TV.

But we did.

We saw one of the candidates for *this* election refuse to accept the results of the last one.

Multiple people died. 2/15
In every single Presidential election since 1796, at least one candidate (and a whole bunch of people) left very unhappy with the results.

In all but three of them, people (mostly) got over it and retooled for the next election.

That’s how the country is supposed to work. 3/15
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