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7 Jan, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Both Elle and Vogue magazines have articles about perimenopause this week.

As mainstream publications finally talk about menopause, always ask whose voices are included.

I’m editing a menopause anthology for @unbounders that is global & gender diverse unbound.com/books/bloody-h…
I’ve been sharing regular “perimenopause is kicking my fucking ass” posts. And ways I’m adapting
Over the next few days, I'll be introducing the incredible lineup of contributors to #BloodyHell: global and gender diverse.

I hope you will support our crowdfund and help us publish this important and revolutionary anthology! unbound.com/books/bloody-h… On a black background in co...
Here are some of my essays on menopause
I found out almost by chance that perimenopause–the time leading up to menopause–could last up to 14yrs. At first, I thought “Are you fucking kidding me?” How was a feminist like me so ignorant about menopause? feministgiant.com/p/essay-bloody…

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8 Jan
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7 Jan
What happens when the majority of lawmakers are too rich to understand hunger or poverty, and are too comfortable to even imagine either.

I wrote this in Dec. 2020 and I know that much of it still applies today.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-a-time…
Year three of #COVID19 and too many politicians in wealthy and powerful countries are telling those most hurt by the pandemic--Black, Indigenous, people of colour, elders and teh disabled--to go fuck themselves thestar.com/business/2022/…
Politicians and CEOs want to push “back to normal”

Fuck normal

I made this in May 2020
🎥 @rerutled

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6 Jan
Where are the Pope’s children? I am childfree by choice and I don’t give a flying fuck what a celibate man who heads a misogynist institution says about having children or about anything actually.
I’m writing a book about being childfree by choice. I’ll send the Pope a signed copy feministgiant.com/p/unmothering?…
And I certainly don’t give a flying fuck about lectures on having children from the man who presides over an institution that harbours pedophiles who sexually abuse children reuters.com/world/europe/r…
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6 Jan
If the female insurrectionists were footsoldiers of the white supremacist patriarchy who had misread proximity to the power of white men as their own power feministgiant.com/p/white-women-… #January6th
Then Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are their golden calves. feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr… #January6th
The insurrectionists within the Capital and without were not revolutionaries.

They were not fighting a tyrannical state.

They were fighting to extend the tyranny of white supremacy, which has seen its fruition in Donald J. Trump. #January6th
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4 Jan
If they were not white, from any other country, or certainly if they were Muslim, the women who stormed the U.S. Capitol on #Jan6, and those who are QAn*n supporters, would be called fanatics, thus is the privilege of whiteness. I wrote this on Jan10, 2021 feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…
Even when they join an insurrection, even as they pummel their way through the doors that held back the mob braying for violence white women are still remembered for the best versions of themselves. Women who joined ISIS were never afforded such an audacious innocence. #Jan6 Text: When U.S. media have taken deep dives into QAnon, it i
White womanhood is privilege sweetened with an innocence and fragility that white women--liberal or conservative, Trump-voting or not--are adept at weaponizing. feministgiant.com/p/white-women-… #January6
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3 Jan
#ThisIs54 It's not my birthday but I post these pictures so that you can see a woman in her 50s doing whatever. Every day I try to move more and laugh more. And invariably something aches: my elbow one day, a shoulder another, and my heart every day. #BloodyHell 📷 @rerutled Mona in a black sport bra and orange workout tights standingMona in a black sport bra and orange workout tights standing
These have been difficult weeks. For my perimenopausal body, I lift weights and stretch and walk. For my aching heart, I dance in between workouts.
Take care of your heart and try to laugh more.
#BloodyHell 📷 @rerutled Mona in a black sport bra and orange workout tights standingMona in a black sport bra and orange workout tights up close
Take care of your heart and try to laugh more and support our anthology on menopause which I am editing for @unbounders. Find ways to pledge here and the rewards you get for pledging.
unbound.com/books/bloody-h… #BloodyHell
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