This just came from my father-in-law and I can’t stop 😭.
Everything is just so 😭 right now I just... 😭😭😭.
Sending love and
@ACLU
provided mini constitutional vibes to all.
Well at least now we know which influencers would have hidden Jews during the Holocaust and which ones would have ordered their kids to wear matching clothes, stand in a line from tallest to shortest while holding up a magnetic letter board with a quote by Coco Chanel.
TIRED: articles about mothers/women being forced to give up careers bc of lopsided gender dynamics in quarantine
*WIRED: articles about women leaving their garbage husbands, moving in with each other and living their best most supported lives
*where are these articles pls send
It’s not that you’re more aware, there’s nothing about simply having a daughter that makes you know more about violence against women. You know her mother, that didn’t make you more aware. It’s that for once, you care. A little. About one of us. Because you feel ownership.
@saladinahmed
Very important point. It’s a crucial time for parents as well as creatives who control media aimed at our youth. We have a responsibility to change the culture. We have to be more than just angry. We have to be proactive in the dismantling of what’s systemic. Root it out indeed.
The most meaningful valentine I ever received was the one I got this morning, a text message from the nurse who was with me the night Hal died.
We only spent hours together and yet...
Time means nothing.
True love is connection.
And we are all connected.
(Sending love.)
I’m a mother of six, and a Mormon. I have a good understanding of arguments surrounding abortion, religious and otherwise. I've been listening to men grandstand about women's reproductive rights, and I'm convinced men actually have zero interest in stopping abortion. Here's why…
Too early to call
(I scream at my alarm every morning)
Sorry this is the only thing I’m capable of tweeting right now. We are a nation of imbeciles for this election to be even this close. We should all be mortified. Mortified!
As the mom of a stuttering 11 year old (and presidential hopeful!) mad props to the Biden team for featuring another stuttering 11 year old.
“This young king stutters in the same places I do!” She just said.
✊🙏✊
@JoeBiden
re: resilience
one of my 8yearolds took videos of herself dancing with her dead dad in the cemetery yesterday.
and then her sister edited this with music.
everything sucks RN but we can keep dancing.
"In 2022, it is still radical for a woman to imagine her life without centering it around a man. I will never remarry. At this point in my life, I can’t even imagine having someone living with me."
MOOD. ILY,
@lyzl
.
In 2005, just after my first baby was born, I started a blog called Girl’s Gone Child.
Today that child is a legal adult which feels monumental not just on a personal level but in the lifespan of an internet presence.
Girls’s Gone Raised an Adult Man dot holy shit dot wow. 🙏
“There is so much emphasis on time investment when it comes to relationships. We validate long-term partners and scoff at one-night stands.”
I wrote this, about love and lovers for
@Refinery29
I spoke at Hal’s service yesterday. And bringing it back to where it all began (full circle, style) I'm sharing it today on GGC. Unrevised. With typos and love.
I have some cool family news! My grandmother, Betty Woolf and her triplet siblings have just entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest living (mixed: frat & identical) triplets at 93 years old! I meannnnnn!!! GOALS!!!
“Anxiety is what happens when you keep asking yourself ‘what if’ and don’t know the answer. And I bet everyone in the whole world has it right now.” - Revie, 8
“Why the emphasis on the white male members of a working class that is in reality disproportionately female and of color? Because for the entire history of the United States, white men have been the heroes, leaders, and narrators.”
Was not expecting to feel the most moved watching the various creative performances today. The presidency has been a soulless, spineless, artless void for four seeminy endless years.
The relief in every voice that sang and spoke today/tonight was palpable.
Ooof. 🙏
Hi! I have news! My book, ALL OF THIS, a memoir of death and desire (August, 2022) is now available for pre-order!
The biggest love to my team
@HarperOneBooks
,
@nickirichesin
for her fierce AF advocacy and you for your support. THANK YOU. I LOVE YOU.
This picture was taken six weeks ago. It was Hal’s best week by far since his diagnosis and even though he was in bed much of the time he was as close as he’s been to his normal self. I’m…
“I kept farting in class today but I don’t think anyone knew it was me because every time I farted I said, “did somebody just fart?” and everyone looked around for the person who farted and nobody looked at me. And that’s what I call blending in.”
- one of my children, age 6
Dearest math Twitter. My kids graduate high school the ages I was when they were born (‘23, ‘27 and ‘30) Can anyone explain how that happened? Am I a witch?
@MavenofHonor
Once I overheard a fellow mom singing along to a Katy Perry song in the waiting area at my daughter’s dance class. That fellow mom? Was Beyoncé.
Also Meryl Streep was in my boat on the Jungle Cruise once.
All of my kids have completely adapted socially to this new normal, creating virtual words, clubs, schools and societies and I have spent the last several weeks trying to finish this tweet in case a stranger might want to be my friend someday.
Honestly this “you should invite everyone to your birthday party” mentality is such bullshit. Many of us have spent our entire lives being nice to assholes because we were brought up to think kindness was some sort of virtue...
I am proud AF to have supported
@ewarren
. I would vote for her a thousand more times if I could.
I will never NOT vote for the better candidate out of fear.
Especially when that candidate is a woman.
On Sunday the nurses put a butterfly on his door. He was days away from death and I knew it. Told the kids as much and they slept in his shirts that night. Bo’s idea. “They still smell…
90% of being a parent is spending hours looking for A VERY SPECIFIC ITEM that is suddenly NEEDED FIRST THING TOMORROW OR ELSE. The other 10% is having to Macgyver an alternative when your search proves unsuccessful. (100% is being unappreciated when you pull it off.)
The very first night Hal and I spent together on the 4th floor — the Cancer floor — I heard a harp outside of Hal’s room. (See second slide.) I was overcome with gratitude that such a…
CNN: KEY RACE ALERT! BUMP BUMP BUMP! Oh, hey guys. What’s up welcome back. Nothing has changed and here is John King he hasn’t slept in three days and neither have you.
I voted today with love in my heart and fire in my belly. With deep respect for voters nationwide and endless gratitude to those who canvassed and phone banked and volunteered in the name…
The fastest way to bring people together is to traumatize them. By endangering Democratic and Republican leadership simultaneously, these dumb fucks just brought two sides that were very much in opposition of each other HOURS AGO together in ways they wouldn’t have been otherwise
"Ejaculate Responsibly," a new book written by a self-described “religious mother of six,” argues that “men cause all unwanted pregnancies” — and, therefore, should be the focus of abortion debates.
For those who do not have one or more musical theatre kid(s) in your home please know that every night they meet on zooms across the nation and world and practice their audition songs while hyping each other up SO HARD (with literal signs) and it’s a thing of hope and beauty.
Holding space for those who did not live to see this day.
Who hated Tr*mp and his ilk with the fire of a thousand suns.
Thinking of their families, friends — whose joy and relief is knotted in a sort of gut-wrenching grief.
Absences feel bigger today. The FOMO of ghosts.
@a_new_eliza
Getting out of a bad marriage is IMO always good news. That doesn’t mean it isn’t also heartbreaking, earth-shattering, difficult. Nothing is universally anything but culturally we equate divorce with failure when in most cases, divorce is the result of successful self-advocacy.
Consent came up in convo with my 16 y/o last night except HE was the one who called me out re: the nuance of maybes.
“Maybe ALWAYS means no. So does yes that doesn’t feel like YES! It’s actually pretty easy to tell if someone’s enthusiastic. It’s not complicated at all.”
Sex is great but have you ever attended a 2nd grade awards assembly & watched as one of your twins gets 2637383 awards while her sister gets nothing/is in tears so you have to whisper in her ear that none of this shit matters while simultaneously cheering for the other one? Ugh.
Shout out to all the moms currently enduring yet another season of busting ass to make Christmas a merry one while relinquishing credit to an old white man who doesn't exist.
did a family zoom tonight wherein my 93 year old great aunt introduced four generations of family to a new series of paintings she's doing with her own blood and I've never been more thankful for family, specifically matriarchs.
ED: endorsing
@BernieSanders
after being harassed by his bros through TWO election cycles feels like siding with an emotionally abusive boyfriend at this point. Which is a perfect metaphor for what it feels like to be a woman in this country. Especially today. So no. I will not.
Oooof. Keeping truth from a child, ESPECIALLY painful truth does not protect them.
Heartfelt sympathy to this writer but what is stability without truth? Empowerment without vulnerability?
Death happens. Still we live. Dying happens. Still we love. Truth is what connects us.
When Jon Mehlman and his wife, Marla, found out that her cancer had come back, they decided not to tell their children. "Our kids would not be robbed of stability; protecting their sense of the ordinary was everything."
I don’t know whose idea this “blackout” was but this is fucking awful. Please spread the word to remove the
#blacklivesmatter
hashtags from your Instagram posts as you’re literally wiping the entire Instagram hashtag. Erasing it!
This feels historic and personal. This is what happens when the the smartest woman in the room GOES ALL IN.
There is NO ERASING Warren after this debate.
And I’ve never been more behind
@ewarren
than I am right now.
He nailed it.
ED: I’ve really struggled with this convention because I’m clearly still traumatized from 2016 (aren’t we all?) but watching an empathetic man take the stage was very healing. My misandrist heart thawed a little. Like, could it be? A decent man? A decent man.
Tonight, Alabama voters elected a senator who'll make them proud.
And if Democrats can win in Alabama, we can -- and must -- compete everywhere.
Onward!
My kids are now at ages where they say FUCK more than I do by 375%. Which is upsetting only bc they have now cancelled out its power and potency. So to my fellow parents/lovers of the word fuck, enjoy it while it lasts! Soon it will be hijacked from your vernacular sophisticate.
The ease at which these mediocre white fucks were able to get inside the US capitol is an entire metaphor. ESP in contrast to the WORK of Black organizers who spent decades working toward what we saw happen last night.