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Jun 2 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
What do you wish someone had told you about #menopause?

glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/menopa…
I wish someone had told me to moisturize my vagina and vulva.

So here I am telling you.

feministgiant.com/p/moisturize-y…
I am glad someone told me that #perimenopause--the time leading up to #menopause--could take 10-14 years.

Thank you @heathercorinna feministgiant.com/p/essay-bloody…
And contributors from around the world and the gender spectrum are sharing what they know about #menopause in this anthology I'm editing for @unbounders. Check it out unbound.com/books/bloody-h…

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White supremacist Christian theocracy. MTG is not an aberration but, like Trump, the fruition of white supremacist Christian zealotry. Fascism doesn't happen overnight. Theocracy isn't built in a day. White, Christian women like her have been eager builders h/t @rerutled
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If Marjorie Taylor Greene was a Muslim, she would be in Guantanamo Bay and in shackles. 👇🏽 h/t @rerutled
But because she is white, evangelical, and a woman--a rich one at that--Greene is not in an orange jumpsuit locked up in a U.S. prison camp in Cuba. Instead, she is a member of the House of Representatives in the most powerful country in the world. feministgiant.com/p/if-marjorie-…
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Jun 3
For @aperturefnd, i wrote that in her photographs about youth, queerness, and protest, Myriam Boulos shows that desire is a form of power. aperture.org/editorial/myri…
Against a purple sky, two naked men tenderly embrace; one is, indeed, whispering, not to us the welcome voyeurs—but into the ear of his beloved. Juxtapose the delicacy of that moment—men stripped of the confines that patriarchy makes of masculinity 📷 Myriam Boulos Two naked men embrace again...
With the altogether more robust, and much more tightly cropped, image of two women kissing. Swallowing each other whole, more like. It is difficult to ascertain where one begins and the other ends. There is power in their desire. 📷 Myriam Boulos Image
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Jun 3
For 20yrs, Hatshepsut was the most powerful person in the ancient world. Aude Semat, assistant curator in the Department of Egyptian Art at the @metmuseum, and I talked about power, gender representation, and why Hatshepsut is known as the King herself.

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What does the androgynous depiction of Hatshepsut—and its subsequent destruction—tell us about the role of gender in Ancient Egypt?

Aude Semat and Mona Eltahawy

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Aude and I discussed this limestone statue that is a life-size representation of Queen Hatshepsut as a king. Throughout a 20yr reign, Hatshepsut used both feminine and masculine physical attributes for representation. limestone statue that is a ...
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Jun 3
I draw power from feminist revolutions against abortion bans around the world, e.g. Mexico, Argentina, Ireland. The U.S .is not the center of the universe and that it must learn from global feminist resistance against patriarchal fuckery. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-se…
The power of patriarchy is strong, and our power to imagine our freedom from it must be even more ferocious. It is increasingly apparent around the world that feminist & queer alliances are particularly powerful, effective & necessary, incl in the fight vs abortion bans 👇🏽Poland A woman waving a rainbow fl...
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Jun 2
Thank you all who are sharing on this thread. Here's some bonus peri/menopause material via FEMINIST GIANT
I'm learning that one of the greatest gifts of the menopause is shamelessness. In lieu of my increasingly AWOL period aka shedding the lining of my uterus, I am shedding the lining of patriarchal fuckery that I was socialized into. feministgiant.com/p/moisturize-y… #BloodyHell
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