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"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own". Audre Lorde 🖤💛❤️ Living on Cammeraygal Land

Today I learned that baby cranes are called "colts" because their legs are so long and they can run around like idiots shortly after hatching. This is delightful, I enjoy knowing this.

photo of two sandhill crane colts that are about 50% leg and 50% neck and head and taking some big steppies.

And they say it's gender criticals who are essentialist! This is going around a lot today. NB, It doesn't specifically ascribe each column to male & female but we all have a very good idea of what stereotypes people think of with their magical gender souls and whatnot. sexvalues.github.io

Screenshot from the Sex Values site showing two columns that list the 8 sex values.

Imagine allowing such craven cowardice to shrink the world to this tedious litany of crowd sourced right-think. Imagine being so easily coaxed into these theatrics of spasmodic glee, cheering as horizontal hostility displaces class solidarity and the work of generations of women slip from our grasp.

BTW Reem Alsalem has been repeatedly reporting this. "...the destruction of maternal healthcare in Gaza is not simply a humanitarian emergency but a form of reproductive violence, with consequences that will continue to unfold long after the bombs stop falling."

palestinechronicle.com

While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.

Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen

The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones

thetimes.com

Minnesota's taxpayers are funding these transgender dolls to go into schools for kids aged 4-10. Removable and swappable genitalia. Kids this age believe whatever adults tell them. I have no doubt everyone involved thinks this is a good thing. 😰

Transgender dolls to be available for Minnesota schoolchildren as young as 4 under Walz-backed program: report

Taxpayer-funded transgender dolls with swappable genitalia target children ages 4-10 through a University of Minnesota research program tied to Tim Walz.

yahoo.com

The only thing worse than BlueSky is Twitter which is the only thing worse than BlueSky which is the only thing worse than Twitter which is the only thing worse than BlueSky which is…1/n

The attempt to redefine women as a loose collection of superficial stereotypes, often drawn directly from pornography and regressive ideas of female passivity and submissiveness, benefits only the sex who imposed those stereotypes on women in the first place.

Blue-footed Booby. The blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) is a marine bird native to subtropical and tropical regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean. Its most notable characteristic is its blue-colored feet, which can range in color from a pale turquoise to a deep aquamarine. 📸: @dstogs_photography

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It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.