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Dec 20 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Thank you all who have recommended my essays on my menopause transition to those also going through it.

Here's my latest, celebrating being perimenopause!

feministgiant.com/p/postmenopaus…
#Menopause is the hardest thing that has ever happened to me. And it’s the best thing I’ve ever gone through.

Menopause is shit. Menopause is amazing.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-menopa…
I am learning, much to my thrill and awe, that one of the greatest gifts of the transition known as #menopause is shamelessness.

And this is my most popular essay on menopause

feministgiant.com/p/moisturize-y…
I'm so glad to see more people talk about the menopause transition.

I've written 15 essays on peri/postmenopause and getting older. They're all free to read and share.

Subscribe--it's free, no paywall or ads.

If you can pay, it helps to keep it free

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Dec 19
Glory and power to feminist revolution in Iran.

Western media continue sanitizing the revolution, replacing the middle fingers raised that we've seen coming from Iran w/ V for peace/victory. This is Le Monde & TIME #mahsaami̇ni̇ #IranRevolution
Why do these media impose a politeness that is not there?

We've seen schoolgirls raise middle fingers to their dictators. We've seen revolutionaries burn shit down as they rise up against their oppressors.

There is nothing polite about revolutions. feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-g…
Revolutions are Not Polite

Or pretty or peaceful or well behaved

They are ugly and bloody and painful

Stop sanitizing them.

The powers that be want us to believe we can nice-and-polite our way to revolt/freedom. feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-…

#mahsaami̇ni̇ #IranRevoIution
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Dec 19
I in fact do watch the women's #WorldCup. I attended matches in Montreal in 2015. And the women's tournament draws massive viewership too ICYMI
And as I say in this essay, about the misogyny, racism, and homophobia in men's football: It is time for men (including you) to learn from women how to play football.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f… #WorldCup #Qatar2022
If queer is the opposite of heteronormativity, the queerest--and joyously so--sporting environment I’ve witnessed were the Women’s World Cup matches in Montreal in 2015. #WorldCup
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Dec 19
In case you missed who also not just watched #WorldCupFinal but went to #Qatar for it Jared Kushner and Elon Musk...
"Musk’s Twitter Investors Include Saudi Prince, Dorsey and Qatar"

bnnbloomberg.ca/musk-s-twitter…
"Qatar Investment Authority

A subsidiary of the sovereign wealth fund of Qatar contributed $375 million in exchange for shares of Musk’s holding company."

#WorldCup #Qatar2022
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Dec 19
For the football fans among you who watched the #WorldCup
#Argentina just won #FIFAWorldCup for the 3rd time.

I started watching the men's tournament in 1978, when Argentina hosted and won its 1st title.

#Qatar2022 was the 1st men's #WorldCup I have not watched in the 44 years since.

I had 6,500 reasons why.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-footba…
I was 12yo when I watched #Argentina lift its 1st #WorldCup and I did not know then of sportswashing that made that 1978 tournament possible. I am sure #FIFA did.

That 1978 World Cup was held in a country ruled by a military dictatorship. theguardian.com/football/in-be… h/t @s_mcguirk
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Dec 18
#Argentina just won the mend’s #WorldCup. It’s the first men’s World Cup I have not watched since the 1978 tournament held in Argentina that I followed with my dad and brother from our living room in London. feministgiant.com/p/essay-footba…
That was my 1st #WorldCup and, though I did not know it at the time, my introduction to sportswashing.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-footba… #Qatar2022
That 1978 World Cup was held in a country ruled by a military dictatorship which held thousands of political prisoners in clandestine detention centres across the country theguardian.com/football/in-be…
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Dec 18
It is grim irony that today's #WorldCup final is being played today, Dec. 18, which in 2000 the UN General Assembly proclaimed International Migrants Day. At least 6,500 migrant workers died in #Qatar to make #Qatar2022 possible. feministgiant.com/p/essay-footba…
Some workers plunged to their deaths building the city that did not exist but which has hosted #QatarWorldCup, some died in the hellish heat of Qatar’s summer (a heat the footballers & fans were spared by the unprecedented decision to hold this World Cup in November and December
Others, men who left their home countries healthy, died a few years after repatriating from conditions directly related to the abusive work conditions they endured in Qatar.

The families of those men who died to make this men’s World Cup possible have not been compensated.
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