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Apr 18 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
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I slept 7 hours straight last night and it’s a fucking miracle. #Perimenopause

📷 @rerutled Mona from the shoulders up,...
Talking of which: it’s a kick to see The Daniels, who wrote and directed #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce reference my essay on @A24’s @allatoncemovie  filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2022/04/da… h/t @voixdemichele

https://t.co/DPTqNV79zN Text: DS: Yes. I read this ...
Now, whenever I want anyone to know how utterly wrenching–and also liberating– it is to go through perimenopause, I will say, nay YELL: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce
And there is a lot more to say about all things #Menopause in #BloodyHell, the anthology I am editing for @unbounders. Pledge if you can. It's like pre-ordering (you'll get a copy of the book) with rewards on top. unbound.com/books/bloody-h…
At FEMINIST GIANT, there is a whole sub-category on all things #Menopause.

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For example: Moisturize Your Vagina

feministgiant.com/p/moisturize-y… #Menopause #Perimenopause
The multiverse might not need us to save it, but our internal multiverse needs us to have a similar reckoning, to stand in the power of a self that has made it through the perimenopause and everything it threw at us, and to emerge as our own superheroes. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…

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Apr 19
Trigger warning: rape, sexual violence, suicide, genocide

For too long, rape has been considered an almost natural result of war, as if soldiers and rebels and fighters just stumbled upon it, as if it were something that was inevitable rather than deliberate.
Rape and sexual violence have always been used—deliberately, systematically, intentionally—in conflict and war to terrorize women (and sometimes to emasculate men). Women’s bodies are considered proxy battlegrounds; an extension of those battlefields.
The latest reminder: Ukrainian human rights group have accused Russian troops of using rape as a weapon of war. The official ombudswoman for human rights said she had recorded “horrific cases of sexual violence by Russian troops in Bucha and other places. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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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 incredible review from a middle-a
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 15
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.
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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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