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Oct 31 2026
Difficult Women
“It actually doeosn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” Jane Goodall
Oct 28 2026
Thinking about voting Republican?
Read this first:
“Report: Over 900 Women Arrested for Pregnancy Outcomes”, Jessica Valenti
https://jessica.substack.com/p/report-over-900-women-arrested-for
Oct 28 2026
One of the Good Guys, Araminta Hall
Highly recommended.
Best prologue ever.
“… you’ll always be a hero, just for doing what a illion women do everywhere every day.” p141
“I realize then that he is never, ever going to understand. That, in fact, he doesn’t want to understand because it will mean giving up what he wants.” …
Oct 27 2026
What Sane Man (fiction from Fighting Words)
She pushed the chair against the wall. It was a sturdy armed chair; that’s why she preferred this motel. Then she helped him, still a bit groggy from the drink she’d doctored at the bar, from the doorway to the chair. Using zip ties—impossible to loosen, let alone break—she lashed his wrists to the …
Oct 19 2026
Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino – quotes and comments
from Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino
I found her opening essay, “The I in the Internet” enlightening:
“Because there were so few search engines [in the 1990s] and no centralized social platforms, discovery on the early internet took place mainly in private, and pleasure existed as its own solitary reward.” p5
Interesting …
Oct 15 2026
Justified (fiction from Fighting Words)
It was inevitable.
By 2035, almost overnight, all of my classes were two-thirds female, one-third male. We’d finally achieved the critical mass I thought wouldn’t ever happen. Correction. I thought wouldn’t happen in time. I was middle-aged when the most powerful county in the world elected for President not the former Secretary of …
Oct 07 2026
The Conductor (movie recommendation) and Jarrett (a short story)
I’ve just watched “The Conductor” (tubi tv) about Antonia Brico’s struggle to become a conductor and her eventual creation of the New York Women’s Symphony Orchestra, and watched with dismay the stats at the end … of the top 20%, then top 50%, orchestras, not one has ever had a female conductor.
And …
Oct 06 2026
Another great read – How to decenter men
https://zawn.substack.com/p/how-to-decenter-men-in-your-life
Oct 06 2026
Chaperones
I used to think chaperones were chaperoning young women, in order to, you know, make sure they didn’t engage in, gasp, any immoral behavior.
Now I think the chaperones were chaperoning the young men, in order to, you know, make sure they didn’t rape the young women.
And I think maybe we …
Oct 06 2026
Great piece by Kate Manne
“You can teach a man what consent looks like but you can’t force him to care about it.”
https://katemanne.substack.com/p/they-didnt-want-consent?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=950263&post_id=219090886&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=9bras&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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