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30 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The ancient Egyptian word for "makeup artist" derives from the word for "to write/engrave."

And the word for "makeup palette" derives from the word meaning "to protect."

I'm having fun with this essay on eyeliner, perimenopause, and the pandemic. artsy.net/article/artsy-… Ancient Egyptian drawings on the wall of a temple showing wo
I am especially interested in connecting “write/engrave/protect” of make up to tattoos. I’ve spoken of how my tattoos helped me heal and my essay on eyeliner will explore that more. Mona's inner forearms showing her tattoos: on the right inne
In this essay, I wrote about why I had bright red hair for so long. In the forthcoming one on eyeliner, I'll write about the significance of the tattoos I have feministgiant.com/p/essay-fallin…
Coming soon here

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1 Feb
I’m a massive fan of profanity. We must recognize that the ubiquitous ways patriarchy socializes women to shrink themselves - physically and intellectually - extend also into language, into what we can and cannot say. feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-… #WhyISayFuck
At the heart of that policing, standing guard over our language like a baton ready to strike, is civility. Patriarchy reserves for itself the power to offend, the power to be obscene. (This Australian TV episode was banned from rebroadcast)
Patriarchy wastes no time in policing women’s mouths as vehemently as it does the genitals of anyone who not a cisgender heterosexual man. Profanity is an essential tool in disrupting patriarchy and its rules.

Outside White House January 2020 🎥 @rerutled
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31 Jan
This is what happened between me and @SethAbramson on Saturday. I don’t follow him but when he claimed he’d written the first look at women of the insurrection several people tagged me and alerted him that I’d written an article on women of insurrection on January 10 Tweet by Seth Abramson: New...
He tweeted this to me and I thanked him and expected he would delete and rewrite his inaccurate tweet. Tweet from Seth: I apologiz...
He did not delete claim to have written the “first” look. If it wasn’t important, he wouldn’t have claimed it.Some of his fans wrote to me saying I was being “silly” to insist on saying I was first. Note they did not call his use of “first” silly. I and many asked him to delete
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31 Jan
Fed up as I am with the consistent refusal to take seriously the danger of white women like Marjorie Taylor Greene, I suggest you forget the Bechdel Test & follow my If so-and-so was a Muslim Test: If Marjorie Taylor Greene was a Muslim she'd be in Gitmo feministgiant.com/p/if-marjorie-…
If the white women who stormed the Capitol were Muslim, they would have been called “fanatics” and “extremists,” and vilified for the violence they committed, not constantly remembered by loved ones as the best version of themselves. feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…
If Amy Coney Barrett was a Muslim, her zealotry would have been pathologized, not earn her a lifetime post on the highest court in the land. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…
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31 Jan
Because I insisted and so many of you insisted with me:

How it started How it’s going Seth Abramson tweet: BREAKING New reports from the WSJ and PSeth Abramson tweet: (PROOF) We've known since January 6 tha
Here’s my article from January 10 - read on, RETWEET and subscribe to FEMINIST GIANT feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…
And here’s FEMINIST GIANT feministgiant.com
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31 Jan
BREAKING: Seth Abramson is a fucking coward. RETWEET and SUBSCRIBE to FEMINIST GIANT feministgiant.com
It appears he has deleted this tweet too and possibly the credit he claims he gave me in his article. Tweet by Seth Abramson: I apologize. I hadn't seen this. I'v
It looks like Seth finally deleted that inaccurate tweet
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30 Jan
"First detailed look at the women of Trump's insurrection?" That would be my article on January 10 RETWEET and SUBSCRIBE to FEMINIST GIANT feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…
"First detailed look at the women of Trump's insurrection?" That would be my article on January 10 RETWEET and SUBSCRIBE to FEMINIST GIANT feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…
RETWEET and SUBSCRIBE to FEMINIST GIANT.

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