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Nov 14, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read
As a trans woman, comic artist Bea Hayward said she wants to blend in. But she questions if surgery is the answer: “What will it take for me to be comfortable in my own skin?”

Read more 👇 (1/6) Narration from a perspective comic by Bea Hayward reads: “ (2/6) Narration continues: “Five years ago, I started hormone reNarration continues: “But I have a sort of unique situatio
Oct 3, 2022 7 tweets 4 min read
In this comic, @SageCoffey writes: "The residual trauma of poverty never leaves you."

Read more 👇 (1) Narration on a comic by Sag... (2) Narration continues: There’...Narration continues: But it...
Aug 29, 2022 5 tweets 3 min read
In this comic, Sólveig Eva asks: "How much talent has gone uncelebrated because we feel entitled to women’s work?" Read more 👇 (1/4) Narration on a perspective ...Narration continues: She sa... (2/4) Narration continues: She sa...The grandmother continues: ...Narration continues: And no...
Dec 1, 2021 10 tweets 5 min read
Meet the woman who could bring down Roe v. Wade: Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch.

Her state’s abortion ban is being reviewed at the Supreme Court today. As @CAKitchener reports, Fitch believes such laws “empower” women.
thelily.com/the-woman-who-… With the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Mississippi is asking the Supreme Court to affirm its ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

The constitutional right to abortion could rest on the outcome.
washingtonpost.com/politics/court…