I woke up at 3:30 am and could not go back to sleep. So, of course, I scrolled through IG and, lo and behold! An article that I feel I have willed into being: The 16 Best Colorful Eyeliners For Bold, Creative Looks. allure.com/gallery/best-c… 👇🏽
It is why I wrote: "The pandemic and perimenopause--the right and the left speaker that give stereo to my life--have fucked up my sleep. Accustomed now to waking up every two hours or so,I have a comfort routine at the ready: I soothe myself with eyeliner" feministgiant.com/p/deliberate-b…
My tools! I used to be a pencil eyeliner person until my sister recommended gel eye liners and wow do I love them - the colours available, how much longer they last, the challenge of painting them on with the brush, everything!
Apologies for forgetting the alt text for first picture:
Mona in a grey turtle neck, hands hooked into her jeans pockets. She's wearing a necklace that looks like it's made of white & grey pebbles, is looking at the camera & wears dark purple lipstick & turqouise eyeliner
"Though people continue to get vaccinated each day, face masks have continued to leave the focus on our eye makeup, providing the perfect opportunity to try out new looks." allure.com/gallery/best-c…
In case you're wondering, back when men and women of all social classes were wearing eyeliner as early as 6000BC in ancient Egypt, it was thick coasts of black and green eye makeup. feministgiant.com/p/deliberate-b…
In fact, “according to ancient Egyptian manuscripts, eye makeup was believed to have a magical role, in which the gods Horus and Ra would protect wearers against several illnesses.”
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The danger, always, is that someone as vile as Marjorie Greene is normalized by the U.S. media. White, blonde, Christian women--even the dangerous ideologues--are afforded the privilege of default and the audacity of innocence.
The GOP has long been a party of white supremacy, misogyny, Islamophobia, etc. GOP women understand the specific role they play to maintain it. They've learned that to succeed against the boys, they must outdo the boys in hate--enter Marjorie Taylor Greene feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…
MTG was vile long before she was elected but because much of her vileness was directed at Muslims, Black people, and Jews, Republicans shrugged and carried on being the craven shits they are, happy to throw their weight behind anyone who brings them votes. feministgiant.com/p/if-marjorie-…
Greene is a reminder that while the U.S. has obsessively focused its “War on Terror” on brown Muslim men inside and outside its borders, this white, blonde, Christian woman inside its Capitol is the face of terror at home.
White supremacist and increasingly evangelical patriarchy has an army of willing white women serving as its footsoldiers: Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are just two feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…
Is there an essay about how those of us who fought tooth and nail to own our sexuality and are now going through perimenopause are cursing “purity culture” of all backgrounds because it robbed us of years of sex with people other than ourselves?
Because if there isn’t, I have to fucking write it and it’s going to be fucking hard.
No puns were hurt in the writing of these tweets.
It would effectively be a letter of apology to 20-something Mona, who I denied pleasure of sex with a person other than herself because I refused to get married.
And it would exhort people in their 20s who want to have sex w/others to not wait because every decade is different.
I'm thrilled that The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls is now available in Ireland and the UK via the fab @TrampPress. I wish I was in Ireland to promote it in person. Instead, here's what I've been telling Irish media:
“No one ever asks men, ‘don’t you think violence vs women begets violence?’...But when I talk about my right to defend myself...people are like...we shouldn’t be adding violence. What do you mean adding violence? Violence exists & exists in those in power” thejournal.ie/interview-mona…
“I feel that my body is mine in a way that it didn’t used to before. The way I am able to look at the world, and what I want from the world.” It is, she says, a liberation and “a sense that I’ve been planting...& I’m now going to harvest what I’ve planted” irishtimes.com/culture/books/…
"Attention seeker" is a quick way to diminish a person.
The further you are from whiteness, cisheteropatriarchy, thinness, femininity, being able-bodied, youth, etc the less attention you are allowed.
Attention is both reward and punishment. It is how patriarchy regulates us.
Calling Demi Lovato an “attention seeker” for expressing an opinion you want to shut down is meant to undermine their original point, shaming them for speaking & diminish their intellectual authority.
My next FEMINIST GIANT essay is about how Reps. @IlhanMN and Rashia Tlaib have upended U.S. politics vis a vis Israel. e.g. Omar has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu what he is: a "far-right ethno-nationalist."
That is the power of a progressive Black and woman of colour in politics. Remember that as well as being the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, Omar and Tlaib question power unaccustomed to being disturbed.