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Jan 15 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
That "critic who wrote about EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE as a metaphor for menopause" would be me! Thanks for headsup @SybyllaM feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…
#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…
It is enough for me that Evelyn gets to beat people up AND have a breakdown of sorts because fuck, yes please! That was the essence of my perimenopause on any given day.

THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT PERIMENOPAUSE IS! It is everything, It is everywhere. And it is all at once.
Every time Evelyn rolls her eyes, says she’s not ready to fight, picks herself up again, bloodied but becoming steadily determined to break more bones of anyone who gets in her way, I want to point to the screen and shout “That’s it!”
feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…
The multiverse might not need us to save it, but our internal multiverse needs us to have a similar reckoning, to stand in the power of a self that has made it through perimenopause and everything it threw at us, and to emerge as our own superheroes #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce
The rollercoaster of a film that is #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce is 1st time I feel someone has heard & given voice to flood of “what if’s” that perimenopause has brought as well as physical & emotional changes we are squeezed through to emerge as the superheroes we need to be.
I get such a kick when The Daniels reference my essay. Here they are talking about it in an interview
filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2022/04/da… #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce Text: Representative. DS: Yes. I read this incredible review
And when both The Daniels told Daniel Radcliffe about my essay on this @A24 podcast a24films.com/notes/2022/06/… #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce Text: Daniel Scheinert: But the most confusing compliments
Whenever I want anyone to know how utterly wrenching–and also liberating– it is to go through perimenopause, I will say, nay YELL: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE.

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

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Jan 15
I moved to the U.S. in 2000. Over the past two decades, I have learned that many white Americans have a delusional amount of confidence in their government and its institutions. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…
They are childishly naive in believing that institutions will save them from state power, which they think will work for rather than ever hurt them.

That stubborn belief in U.S. exceptionalism undergirds the refusal to see fascism that Trump brought.

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Black, Indigenous, and people of colour have no such delusions.

They do not expect institutions to protect them because they are so often hurt by those institutions.
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Jan 15
So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white Americans that they’re lucky to live in the U.S. and not Afghanistan or Iran, that so many white Americans didn't pay enough attention to the theocracy that white supremacy was building at home. A tweet that shows a photograph of women in blue burqas, wit
White & Christian is considered the norm in the U.S. to such an extent that even as white Christians such as Rep. Ann Kelley propose a misogynist dress code in the Missouri State House, white Americans can only see danger as looking like the Taliban instead of like themselves A tweet that reads "I call her #TalibAnnKelley"
It is easy to see theocracy when the theocrats don’t look like you.

No need to look for scary zealots in far away countries when you've got your own homegrown zealots right here in the U.S. Tweet that reads "Talibann GOP Whats next" No girl
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Jan 13
When the Taliban took over in Afghanistan last year, they banned women from sports. These pictures for AP by Ebrahim Noroozi of athletes who miss competing in their sport are heart wrenchingly incredible.
apnews.com/article/sports… 12 women wearing the all-encompassing burqa pose in front of
Afghan women who practice Muay Tha, or Thai boxing, pose for a photo in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022.

The women in these pictures posed for an AP photographer for portraits with the equipment of the sports they loved. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Afghan mixed martial arts fighter poses with her trophies.

Though they do not necessarily wear the burqa in regular life, they chose to hide their identities because they fear Taliban reprisals and because some of them continue to practice in secret. 📷Ebrahim Noroozi
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Jan 13
tw: suicidal ideation

Karen Arthur is one of my favourite people on earth. Follow her on Instagram! I am so grateful to her for being so open about the anxiety and depression she experienced during her menopause transition. Anxiety kicked my fucking theguardian.com/society/2023/j… Karen is a Black woman wear...
I often say that i'm a self-taught menopauser. What Karen says here is spot on.

“I didn’t know that anxiety and depression could be linked to menopause. Everything I know about my journey, I know in retrospect," Karen Aruthur theguardian.com/society/2023/j…
There have been mornings when I am overwhelmed with an impending sense of doom. And I wonder if my anxiety–brand new, I was never an anxious person–is my despair at that fuckery that once flummoxed younger me.

Nothing prepared me for menopausal anxiety
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Jan 13
So successful has white supremacist theocratic patriarchy been that white Americans can only see danger as Arabic writing, resembling Islamic phrases and looking like the Taliban instead of looking like themselves—white Christians
No need to look for scary zealots in far away countries and no need to copy Arabic you don’t understand when you've got your own homegrown zealots who speak English and look just like you. It’s easy to see zealots in when they don’t look like you feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
White Americans live to do this. Remember this when SCOTUS was about to overturn Roe v Wade? A photograph of Supreme Court justices with big beards and w
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Jan 12
For all those bemoaning "men telling women what to wear" in the #Missouri State House: note that it was a woman--Rep. Ann Kelley, R-Lamar--who proposed the dress code. She is Exhibit A of a footsoldier of the patriarchy stltoday.com/news/local/gov…
"Rep. Ann Kelley, R-Lamar, proposed explicitly requiring women legislators to wear jackets on the House floor, saying “it is essential to always maintain a formal and professional atmosphere.”" #Missouri
And those calling the Missouri House GOP "Taliban" etc: So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been that white Americans can only see danger as looking like the Taliban instead of like themselves feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
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