Feminism
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PTSD? That’s Something Soldiers Have. Not Mothers: An Ode to My Dad
I started this post back on the 20th of May, my dad’s birthday. It took me this long to be able to come back to it. I have always prided myself on being the epitome of stability. A rock that people could rely on when they were falling apart. I’m cool in an emergency. I’m thoughtful. I’m deliberate. I don’t…
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What Does It Mean For The Show To Go On?
Earlier today a rag-tag group of people gathered in Northridge Park in Coralville, Iowa. I walked over to a table and saw some little children drawing on pennants with puffy paint. They were creating dedications to my son. One looked up at me and asked, as she would have any nearby grown-up, “How do you spell Charlie?” I spelled it…
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A Time to Re-Open…
I started tweeting about this a little bit ago, but I now realize it might be enough thinking to be its own post. On Monday I was invited to give a talk, hosted by some old friends and new collaborators. On the way there, I was thinking about what I would talk about and looking through my slides. So many…
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4 Reasons Incels Love Terrorism
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: You know it’s gonna be a spicy video when I start out with a content warning: today I’ll be talking about misogynist violence, rape, and murder. Good times! Last week, I stumbled upon a study that was just published…
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Why Girls Don’t Play with LEGOs
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! I LOVE Legos. And you know I love Legos based on the mere fact that I say “Legos” because that’s what I GREW UP SAYING in the god damn ‘80s and ‘90s and I refuse to bow to the POLITICALLY…
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Secretly Murdering Your Husband: The one weird trick that baffled researchers
When a European research group submitted a paper this year on their use of menstrual blood-derived stem cells (MenSCs) to a respected medical journal (which also, presumably, exists in this year), they did not expect a reviewer would claim that “everyone” knows you can secretly kill your husband with menstrual blood. But that is what happened. They presumably knew menstrual…
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Fetal Heartbeat Bills: No Fetus, No Heartbeat, No Heart
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Last week, Texas governor Greg Abbott made a bold declaration in favor of bodily autonomy and women’s rights, saying “Texans, not government (sic), should decide their best health practices.” Wow, that’s so great, I love it, I’m sure this executive…
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Punishing Women for Speaking Up
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Back at the end of February, I made a big fat mistake. I posted a video about a male doctor who seemed to me to be bullying a female doctor because she said that he treated her in a sexist…
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