Thread by @usnehal

Addressing #stigma: If you are my friend or colleague, regardless of gender, you get to know my ovaries whether you want to or not. I’m a woman with #endometriosis & #fibroid #menstrualhealth pain. Instead of seeming “flaky” I will tell you my #womenshealth reason I must cancel.

This is also a generational thing. Boomers and some GenX were “I am as tough as a guy... ovaries.. what ovaries?”

Me: “I have ovaries. They are complicated suckers. We’ll have to work around them.”

#endometriosis #fibroid #womenshealth #menstrualhealth

swhr.org/identifying-ba…

One of the things that made me 🥰is when a MAN reached out to me, because I tweet on this, for his female significant other to ask if I had resources to help her

If you hear of me being “anti-woman” I am anti-#professionalism (women) who suppress open uncomfortable communication

Because when I underwent egg freezing and was open about why I took random days off from work unpredictably, I was advised such topics make people uncomfortable

I am anti-overpolicing #communication: adds #stigma and shame on #womenshealth or otherwise

law.com/corpcounsel/20…

It is often a “buttoned up” woman who is sent to shush an expressive woman on behalf of same patriarchy that builds phallic symbols everywhere.

Shame of #womenshealth and #menstrualhealth harms. (Albeit this is advertising. But this is true on shaming.)

menstrualhygieneday.org/nearly-half-us…

WOC also need to have our own decolonized #womenshealth spaces where we are not told this is only “your community” thing or fetishized. WOC experience many gaps and usual “feminist” spaces rarely are safe spaces.

unwomen.org/en/news/storie…

On being fetishized. No, sexualized identities are not costumes to monetize at an event aimed at mostly (white) men. I mean, I am all for women making money however they like. I am a bit tired of being forever a caricature or seen as in need of “saving.”

https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1224475479014506496

Also this other 🧵 off of that first 🧵

Empowering women is a lot more than undressing women.

If women in entertainment make money aligned with male gaze/desire, that is their choice.

Women who make money based on 🧠 &/or care also would like 💰 💰 💰 for value delivered.

https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1225067667150819335

Caregiving may not be “sexy” but should be paid. Paying women needs to extend beyond what men find sexy or caters to male gaze. Again, if it works for the woman and she is not coerced, her choice. There is a range of women who add value to society.

americanprogress.org/issues/women/r…