Occasionally We're Afraid Of Those Eyes Who Don't Even Have The Courage To Confront Themselves

You will patch up all the holes in 2025.

(this isn’t a post about knitting)

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Daily fucking reminder that Luigi Mangione is innocent, completely and fully. He has been convicted of no crime. He has had no fair trial. He is a SUSPECT. Luigi Mangione is entirely innocent and everyone needs to stop parroting this insidious propaganda that he “committed” the crime he is only SUSPECTED of. He is not a murderer. He is not a criminal. He is an innocent man.

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Elon Musk's and X's Role in 2024 Election Interference

The confessions of a concerned bird.

It’s my hope that Tumblr is still a safe space from political interference when it comes to allowing the users to interact without fear that bots we interact with are sharing misinformation.

what feminist texts do you recommend?

If it’s self-help books or manifestos on how to live more feministly or organize against patriarchy, I don’t really have anything to recommend. I'm behind on that because the ones that I had read did not speak to me. I'm not the type of woman those authors like.

But if it’s history about women or meditations on what life is like for women in certain societies, I do have some recommendations. All the books I recommended, I’ve read them before.

By category in alphabetical order:

HISTORY

Beyond the Veil : Male-Female Dynamics in Muslim Societies by Fatima Mernissi

Educating Muslim Women : The West African Legacy of Nana Asma'u, 1793-1864 by Beverly Mack and Jean Boyd

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World by Kumari Jayawardena

Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom : The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641-1699 by Sher Banu Khan

The Forgotten Queens of Islam by Fatima Mernissi

The Kurdish Women's Movement : History, Theory, Practice by Dilar Dirik

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie Jones-Rogers.

Women and Gender in Islam : Historical Root of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed

MEDITATIONS

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange (note: I'd rather you watch the play first. It's available on YouTube)

Hijab Butch Blues by lamya h

I Love Myself When I Am Laughing…And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader by Zora Neale Hurston

Memoirs of a Woman Doctor by Nawaal El-Sadaawi

Playboy by Constance Debre

Selected Writings by Clara Zetkin

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Sula by Toni Morrison

The Answer / La Respuesta (expanded edition) by Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz

What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape by Sohaila Abdulali

Guys, where do you get your book recs? And do you have recs? (Of books or of bootuber/ig/substack/podcast/...)

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

Window appreciation post

Updates about the TikTok ban/relight … a lot of people thought that TikTokers were being dramatic. We were forced to say “unalive” “pew-pew” and “grape”… now it’s a community violation to say that Meta sucks.

For some reason the versions of this where he gives two salutes is being deleted and replaced with a version with a quick cut to a cheering crowd so I’ll just share it here 🙃