Dear 8th Grader: I am writing to urge you to stop wanting to be liked, and demand instead to be free.

Polite and well-behaved girls do not terrify the patriarchy. We must terrify patriarchy. 

feministgiant.substack.com/p/letter-dear-…
For grown women: So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white women that they’re lucky to live in the U.S. & not Saudi Arabia or Iran, that so many white women didn’t pay enough attention to the theocracy being built right here feministgiant.substack.com/p/if-amy-coney…
Tell your mother I said it is time-way beyond time-for white American women to recognize that no amount of acquiescence will protect them from patriarchy. 
I am writing to you because I want you to know the importance of telling a man to shut the fuck up. 
feministgiant.substack.com/p/letter-dear-…
Stop asking visibly Muslim women if their hijab makes them hot during the summer and start calling white women -- those who vote for the GOP -- fascist enablers and footsoldiers of the patriarchy. feministgiant.substack.com/p/if-amy-coney…

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In one of the 3 remaining abortion clinics in Alabama, @ItsJustMeMia has been forcing the anti-abortion shits to listen to my 7 Necessary Sins for Women & Girls audiobook (which I recorded). I am hounoured that I am there with her and everyone at the clinic.
She says that everytime I say "abortion" the antis yell “LIES!” proving they’re actually listening. And they complain to her “PROPAGANDA! THIS IS PROPAGANDA, MIA!
Mia:“If you don’t like what you’re hearing you can always go home.This is MY property & I’ll listen to what I want!”
Thank you @ItsJustMeMia and all who work at @POWERHouseAla. I am honoured that you are blasting my words at those fuckers. And as soon as we can travel, I would love to come to Alabama and stand in love and solidarity with you all. ❤️💜🖤
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So students of the #Egyptian Police Academy can parade shirtless for Sisi but the regime arrests women - fully dressed - for selfies and videos on TikTok? h/t @almudenariverob Shirtless men
The more clothes #Egyptian men remove, the more they are celebrated for virility - from the police academy to celebrities
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FEMINIST GIANT Newsletter roundups are compiled and written by five interns who bring you global and intersectional news of feminist resistance. I’m thrilled to have younger feminists on board.

Sign up! It’s free. If you can pay, it helps keep it free. feministgiant.substack.com/p/coming-soon?…
I launched FEMINIST GIANT Newsletter because I wanted to be independent and to own my writing.

I commissioned independent artist @sxgx to create a logo for FEMINIST GIANT and look what she made - I am thrilled!

Coming soon FEMINIST GIANT Twitter account complete with header!
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And the T-shirts!
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15 Oct
Ever since I shaved off my hair, when I’m outside now and wearing a mask, I can tell several people are confused and trying to figure out my gender.

I didn’t enjoy that when I was younger and had very short hair. Now I genuinely do enjoy their confusion.
Two women at a park today double taked in puzzlement and it was just fine for me.
That was one of the reasons I shaved it all off - I wanted to go back to the “Are you a boy or a girl?” days and handle it with the power I didn’t have then. patreon.com/posts/39707653
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14 Oct
I said yesterday and I say again and again, “originalists” treat the US Constitution the way people of faith treat their holy books - Bible, Quran, etc and insist you cannot change a word.
And they refuse to brook that society today is not the society for which the edicts were once applicable hundreds of years ago because, they say, those holy books and the US Constitution are for all times.
People of faith will tell you that you can’t change a word because they believe their books are the literal word of God.

Are “originalists” saying that the white men who wrote the US Constitution are gods?

#AmyConeyBarrett
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