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Apr 26 • 11 tweets • 7 min read
I'm working on creating subcategories on FEMINIST GIANT.

Here are 8 essays that feature #Perimenopause #Menopause

1. The Menopause Multiverse

feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…
2. Perimenopausal Nefertiti and My Beautiful Belly

feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime… #Perimenopause #Menopause
3. Falling Apart Like a Feminist

feministgiant.com/p/essay-fallin… #Perimenopause #Menopause
4. Moisturize Your Vagina (also available in Arabic)

feministgiant.com/p/moisturize-y… #Perimenopause #Menopause
5. #BloodyHell and Other Stories

feministgiant.com/p/essay-bloody… #Perimenopause #Menopause
6. My Desire, My Freedom

feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-des… #Perimenopause #Menopause
7. Deliberate Beauty

feministgiant.com/p/deliberate-b… #Perimenopause #Menopause
8. Avenge Your Silence

feministgiant.com/p/essay-avenge… #Perimenopause #Menopause
Bonuse: In Appreciation of Vulvas and Vaginas

feministgiant.com/p/essay-in-app… #Perimenopause #Menopause
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Check out the menopause anthology I am editing for @unbounders unbound.com/books/bloody-h…

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Apr 28
How many women will hear the words Emma Thompson’s character says in this trailer and feel their lives are being read back to them? I am eager to see this.
A good friend wrote to me to say that she will fly to NYC so that we can watch this together and talk and talk and talk!

And you know that I'll be writing about this for FEMINIST GIANT.

Hey @Lionsgate -- release this quickly already!
Here's the trailer on YouTube
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Apr 28
TW: rape

"Ukraine’s human rights commissioner, Lyudmila Denisova, said in early April that there were nine official cases of women who were pregnant after being raped by Russian soldiers."
It is especially sickening to read of these latest atrocities this month. In April 1992, Serb paramilitaries turned a hotel called Vilina Vlas into one of the biggest rape camps of the Bosnian war. It is now a spa. This is what I saw when I visited in 2016 feministgiant.com/p/essay-vilina…
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.
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Apr 28
VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA
If you're wondering what I'm responding to and in case that piece of shit deletes it: Tweet by Dennis Michael Ti...
And here's my essay that disgusted him so! feministgiant.com/p/essay-in-app…
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Apr 27
My latest essay is now available in Arabic, thanks to the excellent translation by @itmeansagift feministgiant.com/p/--380?r=50le…
Thanks to paid subscriptions, I have been able to commission @itmeansagift to translate several other essays into Arabic:

On being childfree by choice feministgiant.com/p/--6dd?s=w
On my abortions feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-…
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Apr 27
Only 1 in 10 women living with HIV who qualify for menopausal hormone therapy have ever received it. As with many health disparities, Black women were less likely to receive hormone replacement therapy than their white peers. poz.com/article/clinic…
We hear too little, if at all, about the experiences of menopausal people living with HIV. I am honoured and thrilled that @susancolehaley is writing about her experience for the menopause anthology I am editing for @unbound. Check it out and pledge! unbound.com/books/bloody-h…
"As seen w/other health disparities, while about half of white women had discussed menopause with a provider, this fell to 37% of Indigenous women & 36% of Black/African/Caribbean women.And Black women were 58% less likely than their white peers to use menopausal hormone therapy"
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Apr 27
Not only does patriarchy use the words used to describe our genitals as curse words, it punishes if we then use those curse words (that describe our body parts, remember) but even if we just use those words as they were intended, as anatomical words.
In a world in which “vaginas,” “pussies,” and “cunts” are words that patriarchy deems to be inherently female and at the same time inherently profane, let us remember that when we say “vagina” we often mean “vulva. Do you know the difference?
And that not all women have vaginas (or vulvas) or pussies, that it’s not just cisgender women who have vaginas (or vulvas) or pussies, and that we can all be cunts. And let us always cis-heteropatriarchy to fuck off. feministgiant.com/p/essay-in-app…
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