#Patriarchy

Emily Best

emilybest

In 2014, I invited 13 women to my house to screen a film and meet each other (26 women showed up!). They were directors, producers, DPs. We talked about how

Tim Skellett

Gurdur

1/ It's interesting that I actually get asked my opinion (quite rare, really); thanks! But be prepared; this is going to be a really long answer, and each part of

Anar Parikh

anarparikh

Indian Matchmaking, among other shows about Indian Americans/Indian diaspora fail to acknowledge that just because we are racial and religious minorities doesn’t mean we don’t have our own systems of

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AtwaterReal

The #FakeNoose hoax is a perfect example of a fundamental truth, expressed as a rhetorical question by 'ol Willy Shakespeare:"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by

Stars and the Moon

StarsandtheMoo3

One thing that feminists are correct about is that "Lad's banter" is mostly used as an excuse to bully and harass innocent peopleA gang of juice-head blokes, insulting random people,

Caroline - Real Feminists XX 🇿🇦

radicalhag

What makes women voluntarily refer to themselves as 'cis' while claiming to be feminist? This has been puzzling me after an altercation with that woman from Edinburgh, who's fairly typical

Helen Pluckrose

HPluckrose

I find it quite implausible on the both the level of intuition & observation that western parents who'd have a problem with their child being gay or lesbian would find

Professor Fleming

alwaystheself

Pleasure reading.. Fanon in conversation with @MsAfropolitan "Even feminist analyses of power wade through the swamps of patriarchy trying to find their roots, when everyone knows that the more

Tanner Guzy

tannerguzy

Second order consequences and the terrifying, nazi-fueled future we're headed for if things don't change.A thread Remember doing the science experiment in school where you teacher attaches a bowling ball

Write Winger

RealWriteWinger

1. Critical theory is taking socially binding norms and flipping the narrative to make them pejoratives, pathologies, and oppression that must be fought in order to destroy the strengths &

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MissKilahMarie

If we’re so steeped in our individual struggles as BM & as BW, that our defenses are sky high with one another, then there’s no way that we can HEAR

Wesley Yang

wesyang

NYC teachers union passes "Black Lives Matter at School" resolution calling for, among many other things, "disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family." https://twitter.com/MOREcaucusUFT/status/1329253369135984640 T

Laura Agustín

LauraAgustin

'saloons had “family rooms” or “wine rooms” where women worked as bartenders + drank alongside men... [these] women were understood to be part of the “sporting world,” on the spectrum

Mona Eltahawy

monaeltahawy

My very first tattoo was of Sekhmet, the ancient Egyptian goddess, on my right inner forearm. I wrote a poem about Sekhmet and revolutionhttps://www.feministgiant.com/p/sekhmets-tits-and-other-poetry?r=aywth&utm_campaign=post&utm_me

Sister Outrider

ClaireShrugged

Good morning, twitter. Here are some thoughts about gender, shared in the hope of taking some of the antagonism out of what has become a steadily more fraught conversation and

MarinaS

marstrina

I'm glad the unredacted quote is doing the rounds, because it's a great illustration of the way accusations of lying about abuse (or using it to achieve unfair aims, which

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