Thread by @monaeltahawy

The third most viewed of my essays this past year is my take on @A24's brilliant @allatoncemovie: feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1559561887750049794

#EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce 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…

The rollercoaster of a film that is @allatoncemovie is the first time I feel someone has heard and given voice to the flood of “what if’s” that perimenopause has brought as well as the physical & emotional changes we are squeezed through to emerge as the superheroes we need to be

How many of us are ready for perimenopause? I am a feminist and until shamefully recently, I thought menopause would take a few months or so during which my period would sort of peter out and boom I’m done. Wow, have I learned.

But once Evelyn gets a taste of options–the What If’s–available to her alter egos in other universes, we understand why women are denied a three-dimensional life, why their imagination is flattened out of daring to want any more than what they have.

Because we would want more, we would want different, and how would our universe handle that, huh?!

feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce

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And I'm delighted that The Menopause Multiverse is my #3 top essay of last year, right after #2 The Fuck-It List, because of course!

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1559932063624548352?s=20&t=iraq4kq7WXTiyfJRbKGbkw

Films that center older women are important. They keep showing us women with options.

I loved watching and writing about Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and Everything Everywhere All at Once.

feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-…