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Apr 15 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Have you seen @A24's @allatoncemovie? It is wonderful and you should! I wrote this about it. #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce
I am 54yo. I can barely watch films or TV shows these days because they are about either high school students or people who are 31yo. In #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce, Michelle Yeoh is everything! feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…
#EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce is the perfect menopause allegory film. I doubt any review will say so, but trust me!

And to continue the menopause adventure, I'm editing the anthology #BloodyHell for @unbounders unbound.com/books/bloody-h… Pledge if you can.
Everytime Evelyn rolls her eyes, says she’s not ready to fight, picks herself up again, bloodied but determined, I want to point to the screen and shout “That’s it!” Between crushing anxiety, hot flashes, red hot rage and brain fog, who does not want to beat the whole world up?
It is enough for me that Evelyn gets to beat people up AND have a breakdown of sorts because fuck, yes please! That is the essence of my perimenopause on any given day.

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Apr 17
Such a kick to see The Daniels reference my essay on @A24’s @allatoncemovie filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2022/04/da… #EverythingEverywhere h/t @voixdemichele Text: DS: Yes. I read this ...
Everything Everywhere All at Once is the perfect menopause allegory film. I don’t care if that’s not what The Daniels had in mind when they wrote and directed it. It’s art. It’s out there. And my menopause claims it! feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce
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Apr 16
I saw #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce

I doubt if many–if any–reviews will say it so, I will: THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT PERIMENOPAUSE IS! It is everything, It is everywhere. And it is all at once.
Everytime Evelyn rolls her eyes, says she’s not ready to fight, picks herself up again, bloodied but becoming steadily determined to break more bones of anyone who gets in her way, I want to point to the screen and shout “That’s it!” #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce #Perimenopause
Between crushing anxiety, hot flashes, red hot rage and brain fog, who does not want to beat the whole world up?

I LOVE this film feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce
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Apr 16
Has Tucker Carlson been watching 👇🏽?
Tucker Carlson should be reading this feministgiant.com/p/essay-macho-…
You know Tucker Carlson would be shirtless like the men in his video, if it weren’t for the fact that fascist patriarchy has determined which type of male body is conventionally attractive & powerful and therefore suitable to display. And ironically for Tucker, it is not his.
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Apr 4
April 3, 2017: university students in Kigali, Rwanda, teaching me a beautiful dance that still reminds me of graceful waves in the ocean.

We had spent an afternoon listening to testimonials from the students, who had lost loved ones to the genocide.
Eating and then dancing and laughing brought us together for communal joy after the tears. Four women from the shoulders up looking slightly off centreMona in a colourful dress pointing at the camera standing neFive people pose and smile for the camera. Mona is in the mi
Kwibuka means Remembrance. On April 7, #Rwanda remembers the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.

The international community stood by as more than 800,000 people were slaughtered in 100 days. That is 1/7 of the population of Rwanda.
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Mar 18
Had my 1st public fight in ages last night and wow am I foul mouthed! And woe anyone who thinks they can talk about me & my dinner companion loud enough for me to hear and think I won’t educate them in just how foul mouthed. I enjoyed iterations of “Fuck” I yelled at this person
As @rerutled, my dinner companion can tell you, she was certainly not expecting it. I actually asked her, before I unleashed,"Do you have a problem?" and she actually said "Yes, I do." And that was her first mistake of the night because I taught what an actual problem with me was
As you can see, her dinner companion left because she couldn't take fuckface up there in the video anymore and a neighbouring table also told her to shut up.

Give me a racist who goes low with me and I'll show you just how utterly into the gutter I'll take them, and then more.
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Mar 17
TW: violence against girls, racism

Two news stories about the horrific abuse of Black girls highlight the intersection of racism and misogyny, and the ways Black girls are "adultified."

Please be aware that I'm not sharing pics but both incidents involve awful brutality.
A 10yo girl is in hospital with serious injuries after a man grabbed and punched her several times in the face and head, and dragged her several metres, as she was walking home from school with friends on Monday. Bystanders intervened & flagged down police cbc.ca/news/canada/mo…
"We are very, very shaken by stress," the girl's aunt, told reporters at the Montreal courthouse where the man appeared

"The reason we're here today is that we want to make sure that this monster will not be released...This man is a danger to the public."
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