Vaccine equity and universal access to vaccines are essential. It is immoral and selfish and unjust--and will prolong the pandemic--to oppose waiving patent production for #COVID19Vaccine production.
It’s horrendous that while so many are desperate for vaccines globally, there are antivaxxer fuckwits in US, UK - etc who co-opt “my body my choice” and co-opt the Holocaust to “justify” their fuckery. I made this in May 2020 🎥 @rerutled #FuckNormal
8 police officers were injured and 5 people arrested for assault after an anti-lockdown protest in Hyde Park, London, over the weekend. More footage at @Urban_Pictures #COVID19

I want to remind you that while ☝️🏽it is police in London who were effectively kettled by anti-lockdown protests, in March it was police who kettled people at a vigil for a woman murdered by a police officer. The police did this to one A woman lying on the ground looks at the camera as she is be
And the police in Manchester did this to a woman protester at a #KillTheBill protest in March. In the UK, the Police and Crime Bill aims to give police more power. Seeing the video and these pics, the question is: more power against who? A woman lying on her back, with police officers pulling her
Bill Gates says no to sharing vaccine formulas with global poor to end pandemic.

Health advocates blast Microsoft billionaire for saying patent protections on life-saving vaccines must remain h/t @candaceshaw

salon.com/2021/04/26/bil… #COVID19Vaccine

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27 Apr
"Fuck school, fuck softball, fuck cheer, fuck everything," said a then 14yo cheerleader on Snapchat after she didn't make Varsity.

The Supreme Court hears arguments this week in the case of the school vs the sweary cheerleader h/t @rerutled

insider.com/supreme-court-…
I'm a massive fan of profanity. I am intentionally sweary. And I write often about who can swear and when.

Patriarchy insists it controls everything, including our mouths. When our mouths threaten that control, patriarchy insists we shut them. feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
The obsession with civility in the United States is bipartisan and white, and often directed at women, especially Black women and women of colour.

The less power a woman has, the less freedom she is given to curse.
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27 Apr
What does ambition look like in these days of immense loss & grief, when a global pandemic has pushed so many women out of workforce & into lockdown w/abusive partners in a reminder that it was home all along & not a park or a parking lot where danger & death often ensnared them?
Our ambition should be to guarantee universal basic income.

Our ambition should be to guarantee housing for all.

Our ambition should be to ensure everyone has free education and healthcare.

🎥 @rerutled March 2020
Our ambition should be to destroy patriarchy, white supremacy, misogyny, capitalism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, ageism and fatphobia.

Our ambition should fan the flames of subversion not fuel submission to patriarchy and its oppressions.
feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-amb…
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26 Apr
What is ambition for a woman whose goal is not to become a CEO? What does ambition look like for a woman whose goal is not to become rich? What is ambition liberated from corporate success? What is ambition for a working class woman or a woman who is poor?
feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-amb…
It is my ambition to liberate ambition from accumulation, be it wealth or the crumbs of patriarchy’s approval. My ambition is much bigger than doing whatever a man can. Men are not my yardstick.
If men themselves are not free of the ravages of racism, capitalism and other forms of oppression, it is not enough to say I want to be equal to them.

My ambition is for much more. I want to be free. My ambition is to destroy the patriarchy. feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-amb…
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25 Apr
New essay: My ambition is much bigger than doing whatever a man can. Men are not my yardstick.

My ambition is for much more. I want to be free.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-amb…
If men themselves are not free of the ravages of racism, capitalism and other forms of oppression, it is not enough to say I want to be equal to them or to do whatever they can.

I want something much bigger than equality. My ambition is for much more. I want to be free.
It is my ambition to liberate ambition from accumulation, be it wealth or the crumbs of patriarchy’s approval.

What is ambition for a woman whose goal is not to become a CEO? What does ambition look like for a woman whose goal is not to become rich?

feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-amb…
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24 Apr
At least 6 people were fatally shot by officers across the US in the 24 hours after jurors reached a verdict in the murder case against Chauvin on Tuesday.

1 verdict, then 6 police killings across America in 24 hours bit.ly/3nhAlmE h/t @jilevin

My essay 👇🏽
"A 16-year-old girl in Columbus, Ohio.

An oft-arrested man in Escondido, California.

A 42-year-old man in eastern North Carolina.

An unidentified man in San Antonio.

Another man, killed in the same city within hours of the first.

A 31-year-old man in central Massachusetts."
My essay asks: who protects us from the police? feministgiant.com/p/essay-fuck-t…
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23 Apr
I have a date with a vaccine! Sequins for celebrating! 📷 @rerutled #COVID19Vaccine #AstraZeneca
It is such a privilege to be vaccinated. Thank you Vi who administered the shot. I’m so grateful and hope everyone around the world can be vaccinated soon. We must demand and push for vaccine equity. 🎥 @rerutled
And Beloved @rerutled got dressed up too! Vi kindly took this picture of the two of us after she’d vaccinated us both - we were so excited and grateful! Get vaccinated as soon as you can! #COVID19Vaccine #AstraZenaca Mona and Robert standing side by side holding blue vaccinati
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