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11 Jul, 6 tweets, 3 min read
-When #England lose, domestic abuse of women rises by 38%.
-After a match in England, domestic abuse starts increasing & peaks 10hrs after the game,
-After England match, domestic abuse is 11% higher next day.
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#EURO2020 #ITAENG
Links to the research and the % above are in my essayl

Football does not make cis men abuse women. Patriarchy enables and protects their violence.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f…
The violence that goes home with the men’s game is a wholly-owned subsidiary of patriarchy.

You would be naive to think it is limited to targeting women &children. It is fuels the boos when players take a knee and the racial abuse yelled at Black players and homophobic chants.
It is not football that makes cis men abuse women and children.

It is not the alcohol that makes them hurt women and children.

And win, lose or draw, the score doesn’t make a man beat a woman.

Patriarchy does. feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f… #EURO2020 #ItalyvsEngland
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#ThisIs53: it is not my birthday. I want you to see a 53yo woman. I’m saying “Here is a middle aged woman. Look,”at a time when it seems that every time I look away, my body has changed. 

Read & share my new essay👉🏽: feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime… #Perimenopause
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18 Jul
This is an ode to my 53yo body.

Every week, I post my photo on social media w/ caption “#ThisIs53.

I want to be seen, to say “Here is a middle aged woman. Look,” at a time when it seems that every time I look away, my body has changed. feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
#perimenopause
A statuette of Nefertiti and a quote by Bruce Lee have become central to my endeavour.

Read my essay and sign up! feministgiant.com
More here #Perimenopause #ThisIs53
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18 Jul
Earlier this year, I started posting photographs of myself on social media with the caption “#ThisIs53. It is not my birthday. I want you to see a 53 year old woman.”

feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
I wanted to be seen. Not to be told, as I often have, that I don’t “look my age.” That is not the compliment some people think it is. But to say “Here is a middle aged woman. Look,” at a time when it seems that every time I look away, my body has changed.
This is an ode to my 53-year-old body: breasts, belly, first period in 10 months and all. 

Read, share and subscribe: thank you! feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
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18 Jul
Fuck Marjorie Taylor Greene and fuck America First
If Marjorie Taylor Greene was a Muslim, she would be in Guantanamo Bay and in shackles.  feministgiant.com/p/if-marjorie-…
But because she is white, evangelical, and a woman--a rich one at that--Marjorie Taylor Greene is not in an orange jumpsuit locked but is instead a member of the House of Representatives in the most powerful country in the world. A picture of Marjorie Taylo...
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17 Jul
The predictably-craven Republican leadership initially backed MTG and #LaurenBoebert’s male GOP opponents because party leaders thought the two women were extremists who did not stand a chance in primaries. feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…
If Trump could give birth, it would have been to Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, both of whom are clearly created in his image.

They walk like Trump; they talk like Trump. And they hate like Trump. #LaurenBoebert
The GOP has long been a party of white supremacy, misogyny, Islamophobia, and other oppressions. And GOP women understand the very specific role they play to maintain it. They are also learning that to succeed vs the boys, they must outdo the boys in hate-- enter MT and #Boebert.
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17 Jul
I block anti-vaxxers.

In case it’s not clear.
I’m repeating because a few seem determined to talk to me because if my thread here, which I’m expanding on for my next FEMINIST GIANT essay
Anti-vaxxer? Fuck off

Anti-abortion? Fuck off

I have NOTHING to say to those Orwellian fucks who are suddenly “My body, my choice” to excuse being anti-vaxxers & anti-mask but who never said that about abortion as I say here from May 2020 🎥 @rerutled
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