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16 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Oct 18 (Monday) is Menopause Awareness Day. I'm not a fan of "days"--I'm aware of menopause every day. However, I am writing an essay to mark the day.

Working title: Moisturize Your Vagina* and Other Fun Facts

*Reminder that it is not just cis women who go through menopause
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I thought I had to be brave to write my essay on my two abortions.

Ha!

An essay on menopause and moisturizing your vagina is taking it to another level. Trust me.
I'm at the stage of my life right now where if I hear a voice in my head saying "Oh my god, you can't write about that!" I WILL IN FACT WRITE THAT.

And that is an absolute advantage of being 54 years old and merrily on my way way to menopause.

Fuck "you can't." Watch me
And that is why I started FEMINIST GIANT: my place to write all that I should not/could not/would not.

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I am sometimes accused of "inciting violence."

I am inciting liberation.

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I wrote about anarchist feminists who inspire such revolution--from women-led slave revolts to 1st explicitly anarchist-feminist group in 1896 Argentina
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14 Oct
It's Menopause Awareness Month. For those of us going through perimenopause, that would be every single day for quite a number of years.

What do Nefertiti and Bruce Lee have to do with my perimenopause? I explain! feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime… #MenopauseAwarenessMonth
To look honestly at our bodies as we age is to begin to understand what Bruce Lee meant when he said, “Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless — like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup,..Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." #Menopause
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.”

I am now 54. I wanted to be seen. Not to be told, as I often have, that I don’t “look my age.” #Menopause Mona from the waist up with...
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12 Oct
I've been going out the most since the pandemic and I don't know if this is just what I want to see or if it's actually happening but so many people are kinder, softer, freer with compliments and kind words.

I wrote about grief literacy and I wonder if this is what we're doing.
Those of us who did not die must prepare to take our individual grief out into the world, find our place in communal mourning & nurturing, whisper to each other’s hearts “We know you’re strong.Look at what you survived. You can be soft here, we’ve got you” feministgiant.com/p/essay-some-o…
The title of my essay is from the poet June Jordan who asked soon after 9/11: “I realized that regardless of the tragedy, regardless of the grief, regardless of the monstrous challenge, Some of Us Have Not Died. Some of us did NOT die…And what shall we do, we who did not die?”
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11 Oct
“You risk childlessness.” Ha! For those of us who are childfree by choice and happy I say loudly: “risk” it!
I have never wondered what it would have been like to have children. I say that because we often hear “you’ll regret it when it’s too late.” Well, here I am on the other side -- it is “too late” -- and I am here to say: I do not regret it. feministgiant.com/p/unmothering
I am writing a book about being childfree by choice and happy.

Until I finish it, read my essays and subscribe to FEMINIST GIANT. It’s free - no paywall or ads.

If you can pay, it helps keep it free.

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11 Oct
Oct. 11 is #InternationalDayoftheGirl. Every day should be a day when we uphold girls and their right to thrive and to be free of violence. #DayOfTheGirl
What if we nurtured and encouraged the expression of anger in girls the same way we encouraged reading skills: as necessary for their navigation of the world? feministgiant.com/p/how-much-is-… #DayOfTheGirl
Imagine a girl justifiably enraged at her mistreatment. Imagine if we acknowledged her justifiable anger so that a girl understood she’d be heard if anyone abused her & that her anger was just as important a trait as honesty.

What kind of woman would such a girl grow up to be?
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11 Oct
Every time I see Ashli Babbitt trending, I will remind you:

Ashli Babbitt never imagined the Capitol Police would shoot her because the police rarely shoot white women, unless it’s a cop who shoots his wife at home. #AshliBabbitt #January6th

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She never imagined she'd survive fighting for regime change “over there” only to die fighting for regime change “over here.” A 14yr Air Force vet who fought in Iraq & Afghanistan, she was the only person shot by Capitol Police while trying to storm the Congress of her own country
So eager of a footsoldier of white supremacist patriarchy was #AshliBabbitt that she was the first to scramble through a window in a door separating the insurrectionists from an area where members of Congress were sheltering from the mob.
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