Thread by @monaeltahawy

So glad to see #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce on so many nominations list.

One of my favourites this year.

I wrote about it here feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…

https://twitter.com/FilmUpdates/status/1603063131076722691

To see an Asian woman in her 50s ponder her other selves & the lives she could have had,is subversive. During a time when pandemic bigotry & violence in the U.S. targeted Asians, esp women & elders, a film that centres Asian woman in her 50s is subversive feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…

Talking of older women and subversive, disappointed that Good Luck To You, Leo Grande didn’t get more nominations so far. feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-…

How often do films center a woman in her early 60s?

Rarer still is the film that centres a woman in her early 60s who wants to fuck. 

Heteronormative patriarchy’s designated shelf life for cisgender women is the age at which we cease to be its walking incubators.

Wanting sex and expressing sexuality outside the tenets of heteronormativity: these are a chaos and liberation that threatens patriarchy, deeply. There is power in expressing and insisting on desire, pleasure, and sex on our own terms. feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-…

And that is why films that center older women are important. They keep showing us women with options.

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Talking of nominations: I love #TurningRed so much. I wish 11.5 year old Mona had it when she first got her period.

https://twitter.com/pixarturningred/status/1603087905597128708

Now, 55 and a quarter year old Mona wants a sequel about the mother's menopause transition

feministgiant.com/p/postmenopaus…