Catherine⸆⸉

@torturedpoet84.swifties.social

Just here to share my love of Taylor Swift, books, and dismantling the patriarchy | she/her 📍Mobile, AL, USA 🌺 writer & poet ✍🏼 | #seniorswiftie 🪩🫶🏻 👦🏼🧔🏻‍♂️🐶 | #haikuhumpday | #booksky 📚💙

This iconic 1971 photo of Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes has always said so much without saying a word. Two women. Two raised fists. One shared fight for equality. Dorothy passed in 2022. Now Gloria is gone too. Two giants who helped change America. Rest in power, Gloria. ✊🏼✊🏾

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I am embarrassingly late to this game, but I started listening to Bad Bunny this AM. Can’t understand a word he’s saying (& I’m a lyrics person 😭😭) but, f*ck, he’s talented & his music is catchy! Currently watching his NPR Tiny Desk concert 🎶🎶 F*ck MAGA & I can’t wait for the SB halftime show.

Last night my POTUS-loving family members were saddened and shocked to hear that one of our best friends is unemployed bc his government-contacted job was “DOGE-ed” months ago. The amount of strength it took to just walk away from that conversation…

It's simply amazing to me that the U.S. spent 70 years (1945-2015) constructing a post-WW2 military, economic, and social world order to its liking, only to turn around and decide it was actually the victim of this order the entire time.

Your monthly reminder: Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write.

Wow! France gifted her to us, and now they’ve captured what so many Americans are feeling on Independence Day. The values the Statue of Liberty stood for are no more. 📌 A stunning mural of the Statue of Liberty covering her face was unveiled in Roubaix, France, on July 3, 2025.

Today, USAID shuts down. Experts say this could lead to 14 million deaths by 2030—including 4.5 million babies and children under 5. Let’s not forget, Trump recently let a warehouse full of food aid rot rather than feed the hungry. This isn’t America first. It’s America heartless.

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