learning that 90% of the discourse that tears apart queer twitter was already argued extensively during the second-wave feminist movement has been both intensely liberating and intensely frustrating
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every day i understand more the dire need for mandatory women's history courses that actually teach feminist history
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let's have the feminist sex wars again. let's argue about pornagraphy, sex work, s&m, and women's rape fantasy again! let's argue essentialism vs. social constructionism in lgbt identity again! let's argue butch/femme again! let's go again! i want to get off mr. bones wild ride!
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jess Retweeted Not like the other Catboys
i've gotten this from teens & 18-21 year olds so many times while literally citing the history that contradicts them & it's v frustrating. can't imagine how much more upsetting it is for people who lived it. ofc i try to hold kindness cuz they're young buthttps://twitter.com/shafiqmog/status/1301903528684855296?s=21 …
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it's also just exhausting cuz the structure of twitter means we have to inhabit the same (toxically designed) social spaces on here, and also: adults do it too and that shit makes me incredibly angry
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jess Retweeted jess
reminder that i made a thread of threads of lesbian-feminist history in this tweet and down:https://twitter.com/jessfromonline/status/1278731951705374721 …
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[cw food] also if you're jewish and gay i am begging you to read "Nice Jewish Girls: a lesbian anthology" and/or "Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition" they're both seminal texts that genuinely changed my life
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jess Retweeted Gilly 🦕 🤍 💛 🧡 ❤️ 🤎 💜 💙 💚 🖤
strongly agree, NJG is so so full of wisdom that goes well beyond the jewish experiencehttps://twitter.com/fgh22gill/status/1301973826096562178?s=21 …
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eigenrobot Retweeted Science Banana
yuo may find this Liberating, unironical glhttps://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1008714338574585856?s=19 …
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