A'Ja Lyons
@ajalyonsroars
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Mother, Jewish, writer, historian, teacher, performer, nature lover, and radical feminist activist @iowastateu alumna @okstate PhD student *views are my own*
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I am a mother to my child before anything else.
If safeguarding children means editors of literary journals/magazines don't want to publish my work, I don't want my work affiliated with their content.
This is a hill I will die on with a smile on my face and my head held high.
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“It is cruel to lock women behind bars with violent rapists. It is cruel to force teenage girls to change in front of young men in their locker rooms. It is cruel to force traumatized rape victims to sleep in dorms with men.”
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@jk_rowling
You are so brave. We love you. Never silence yourself. Women are watching. Little girls are listening.
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😭 This little Ravenclaw can’t stop happy crying and screaming. I’m 31 but I feel 8 years old again!
Thank YOU, Ms. Rowling for the wonderful world of Harry Potter and using your platform to affirm material reality when it’s being shoved in the cupboard under the stairs.
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You’re free to have your opinions about Bette Midler and Macy Gray, but consider the language used when you speak about a Jewish woman and a Black woman. Consider what has been done to our bodies throughout history. Disagree appropriately and not with bigotry.
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Feminists in the UK and Scotland - are y’all okay with your sisters in the USA wearing your suffragette colors and saying/wearing
#WomenWontWeesht
paraphernalia?
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I’m in my 30s and I started coming out at the age of 11 back in the 2000s. That makes me an old gay.
“Queer” is a term that is a violent pejorative for me. Always has been and always will be.
I’m one of those Black people that doesn’t use the N word in any context either.
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Newsflash: women have a right to their own thoughts and feelings pertaining to women’s issues. How a man feels and thinks about that is irrelevant.
Calling for people to shun them is sexist. These women have never uttered a single anti-trans word.
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1st same sex couple ever on the cover of Essence magazine or any Black publication, I believe.
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My name is A’Ja. I am a poet and performer. People mistake me for the glorious sister
@Aja02537920
who is a wonderful poet. She has inspired me to write poems about female oppression by harmful ideology and technology.
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I’ve taken child abuse awareness trainings before. Today was the first time I took one and realized I’d been groomed.
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There were protests in New York while the wealthy and privileged were having a fashion extravaganza
People watch and read The Hunger Games/dystopia and think it’s fantasy/fiction
We’re living in it, yet no one is covering dissent unless we get violent
sooooo not one celebrity saw the protest happening? 👀
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@iamlearnin
We all know why they’re hating on this girl; a dark skinned Black girl has the audacity to be confident and assured in her beauty.
They think only light skinned girls should be convinced and walk in their power. They want us to submit and second guess ourselves. Not today, boo.
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@belovedbookss
Legally she’s an adult but come on…y’all know they’re at different life and developmental stages
It’s predatory
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My heart bowl is full with the love and support from everyone. Her name was Rabbit. She was about 13. I hand-fed her as a kitten. I literally saved her from being eaten by hawks. I thought she’d live to be 20.
I had to put my cat down last night because she had cancer. That’s how my 2022 is starting off.
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There are trolls questioning the credibility of my stating that enslaved Black women were raped daily. I’m a historian; look up breeding plantations.
“If black women could identify out of womanhood and become men, I think they would have done it during f****** slavery when they were getting raped every day!”
🔥 from
@ajalyonsroars
Phd student at Oklahoma State University at Let Women Speak Tulsa 5/17/24
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I say this as an African descendant of chattel slaves and as a historian:
Society only restructures itself for the comforts of the mentally ill when it benefits extremely wealthy white men. We’re seeing this in the present with gender ideology.
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What's more likely; That a load of lifelong left-leaning LGBT-supporting women have inexplicably and uncharacteristically all suddenly become bigots or that one might be missing something here? - Jack Appleby
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@_benjvmins_
I’m surprised parents who beat their children are never concerned that there will come a day their kids will be bigger, stronger, faster, and can send them flying across the room. The children will have every right to do so because it was modeled for them.
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@thesophiratchet
I am a descendent of chattel slaves and it will be a cold day in hell before anyone refers to my Black female human self as anything other than a woman.
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Do leftists not care how racist they sound in their “defense” of Imane Khelif? Algeria is not a “backwards country” because it’s an Arab country in north Africa. Just like anywhere else there are urban metros, educated people, and healthcare access. Imane isn’t a poor farm kid.
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Child support charges should begin at the detection of a fetal heartbeat.
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If Madame Vice President Kamala Harris chooses Illinois governor JB Pritzker as her running mate, she will lose my vote.
I will not support the Pritzker family’s transhumanist, unethical, tax evading agenda.
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@sappholives83
I, an actual Black woman, have said this. I’m told it’s not the same by white women.
I’m a Black woman; yes it is. Don’t appropriate my race or sex.
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I had to put my cat down last night because she had cancer. That’s how my 2022 is starting off.
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I’m a Black woman. There’s nothing racist about sex based language.
This article in the obstetrics and gynecology journal Birth argues that "sexed language" in midwifery "causes harm to all who birth" because it "reflects an ideology of unchangeable sex binary" and perpetuates "colonialist, heteropatriarchal, and universalist" notions of "sex and
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I don’t think everyone with a Black Lives Matter sign is pro Black. The most radical pro Black allies I know don’t have banners or signs. I don’t like the era we’re in that wants a quick and easy label system instead of conversing with people and then making decisions about them.
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Yes the thread goes exactly where most women know it’s going to go.
Today was a tough one. Little baby girl comes in for “recurrent UTIs”. Parent is frustrated because she’s been to ER multiple times this year when these symptoms started where she’s given antibiotics & sent home. But symptoms always come back - belly pain, pain in urination,…
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#WomenWontWheesht
Wheesht = Scottish slang for shutup. Women won’t be silenced. Not in the UK, Europe USA, Latin America, Africa, Asia, or the Pacific Islands. Women around the world are rising up and speaking out.
#BoundariesOrElse
#MessAroundAndFindOut
🇬🇧 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇮🇪
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@JoolzDenby
I’ve been cancelled and banned from submitting and publication by 3 small literary journals that were going to publish my work. 🤷🏿♀️ Anytime I’m platformed in their little circles they talk and I’m de platformed.
I’m holding the line for material reality and protecting children.
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White people make themselves look even more racist trying to look smart, correct, and anti-racist every second. It’s OK to not be perfect and to get it wrong sometimes. As long as you are genuine and kind, the average person will show you grace.
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I’m teaching adults in person for the first time tomorrow. I know I’m smart and capable, but I am a bit nervous.
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Sidney Poitier mistreated Black women including his first wife and their daughters, so I'm not mourning his death.
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Wonder if people will still mistake me for
@Aja02537920
She’s significantly taller, thinner, and lighter skinned than I am. Her locs are longer, too.
She inspires me to write radfem poetry and share it. I need to stop procrastinating on that 😩
Love to the radfem poet sis Aja.
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Women, adult, human females, literally birth of the world yet everyone throws a fit when we center ourselves.
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@glen_rivers
I really don’t see how adding pronouns helps anyone.
Does it give anyone a job? Healthcare? Housing? Does it even affirm a trans person’s self image that they care so much about? I don’t see how any of this legit benefits trans people.
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@Metro_Ents
It’s not precarious. People’s boundaries aren’t being respected, so they’re standing up.
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@Jebadoo2
This is also racist.
The hyper feminine woman is pink and the ultimate masculine man is brown.
I’m a feminine Black woman, but I guess I must be masculine according to this because of my dark brown skin…
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@MelaninBarb19
yOu cAmE bEtWeEn My FaMiLy
girl, bye
That man didn’t want to wife you and you blamed and attacked a child for it
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@atheistathenian
Social conditioning really turns the mind violent
Terrible you experienced that
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Thanks for the support!!!
“If black women could identify out of womanhood and become men, I think they would have done it during f****** slavery when they were getting raped every day!”
🔥 from
@ajalyonsroars
Phd student at Oklahoma State University at Let Women Speak Tulsa 5/17/24
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@Kings_of_Lydia
@coccinellanovem
I’m an American and
#IStandWithMaya
#WomenWontWeesht
Not all of us are woo woo
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@afrorckprincess
They’ve been the face and center of Black beauty since the 19th century, so they’re in their feelings
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I was honored to stand with such amazing women at
#LetWomenSpeakTulsa
yesterday! I finally got to meet THE
@ThePosieParker
in person! Maybe we can have a full British Invasion and get
@jk_rowling
over here!
#ForWomen
#ForGirls
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@AnonyFeministy
I do not understand how people can seriously think bashing women is an adequate response to anything.
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@LilNasX
Luther Vandross had to live his entire life in the closet
Tevin Campbell could’ve been the next Luther, but he was outed
Barry Manilow didn’t come out until he was a senior citizen
Clay Aiken came out, but he wasn’t the biggest star and really hasn’t made much headway sense
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@moonheadbowed
@SinclairJM1987
I’m bisexual, I really wish people would just say bisexual
Queer is a slur
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@DSDKlinefelter
@coccinellanovem
@LGBTIQAGreens
Some intersex people are LGBT, but I see no reason why all intersex people should be grouped under the rainbow.
Intersex activists have repeatedly said they’re allies, but their medical status has nothing to do with gayness.
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@hottie_blaque
Where was the outrage Dave Chappelle is receiving when Amy Poehler and Tina Fey joked about R. Kelly peeing on Blue Ivy?
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@MaliciousMoxie
@tpyamazaki
And teaching self acceptance is considered conversion therapy??!! It’s an insult to those gay, lesbian, and bisexual people that actually went through that.
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@Lo_a_Rare_Nag
Most have to be closeted because the backlash from fellow progressives is emotionally, physically, and financially violent.
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🫂🥰
Full speech where
@ajalyonsroars
brings the receipts, the history & the fire 🔥 🔥
“And now, when I hear black women referred to as black birthing bodies by people that call themselves progressive, by people that say they're anti-racist... It's monstrous and it is a lie!”
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Some of the biggest racists in the USA are white social justice warrior wannabe pronoun obsessed snap snap “yasss queen” “Black transwomen” slogan of the week mantra sayers. They’re fraud. When confronted with racism they either remain silent or even enable it. They’re no allies.
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Comparing a woman who acknowledges the reality of biological sex with a man who orchestrated the genocide and brutalization of Jews, Polish, Slavs, Roma, the disabled, political and religious dissidents, Afro-Germans, and homosexuals is absolutely monstrous. How dare you…
At this point a visible Harry Potter tattoo should be met with the same degree of revulsion as a Swastika
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@yaboyojamez
@jillybobww
That. I’ve been a foster/adoptive mother. It takes a lot for removal. People don’t realize that. The state has to pay out a lot of money for foster parents, shelters, or facilities to house children. They’d rather not deal with that. It takes years of abuse for permanent removal
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@afrorckprincess
@Why_U_Here_
wE aLl bLaCk
Nahhhhh, I was there for your "first of all, I'm mixed" phase. You can go back to the middle lane.
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@AWerey
Sexism and misogyny still tells women that they’re of little to no value without proximity to a male romantic partner.
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USA feminists we need to join our sisters in the UK (England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland) and shout
#WomenWontWheesht
Women will not be silenced
Wheesht is the Scottish word for hush/to be quiet
If you have a better hashtag I’m all for suggestions, but that’s genius
Feminists in the UK and Scotland - are y’all okay with your sisters in the USA wearing your suffragette colors and saying/wearing
#WomenWontWeesht
paraphernalia?
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@eva_kurilova
@leiv_tunc
I wish people went back to the good old gays of saying gay, lesbian, and bisexual. Everything else really feels like horrible slurs.
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@fem_mb
@coccinellanovem
@jk_rowling
Not once did I think J.K. Rowling was referring to Jews.
I’m from Houston and we have over 100,000 Jewish people. My aunt converted to Judaism back in the 80s/90s. I know racism and anti Semitism when it’s there and people are reaching with this one.
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@Science_social9
@adri16
I personally know this Black male therapist. He’s great. Does virtual appointments.
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@sailorfemme
Angela Davis and Condoleeza Rice both grew up in Birmingham Alabama around the same time...
One is a freedom fighter for Black liberation and the other is a war criminal who believes respectability politics and white adjacency is what can save us.
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@WomenReadWomen
@PennSwimDive
@IvyLeague
Catherine Buroker was the real
#1
💫 🌟 ⭐️ and the world knows it.
Each university has a student directory. I think each time a “race” like this occurs people should email the real winner expressing support in addition to voicing public opposition.
#PennCheats
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I sent her pictures of the wildflowers
She said they’re beautiful
I await the day we walk along the trail beside the creek
Stepping beside vines and wet rocks
Wading in waters
Sweat beading down our backs as we stride and smile
Holding onto hope and each others’ hands
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@gendercult
It takes a privileged obtuse white person to say that racism is less of an issue outside of the USA. Systemic and social racism are absolutely ghastly in Canada, the U.K., Brazil, Spain, Argentina, Australia, and likely other places. I only listed ones I know are explicitly so.
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@_CryMiaRiver
@tinternetqueen
This is not teaching children to be kind and compassionate towards gay people. It’s weird and it’s grooming.
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@RadFem_KatH
Keep the focus on her.
Ask her what her ideal would be for her life, work, and relationships, etc. Then ask how that matches up with her current existence and if you two could get her wishes to become her reality. Emphasize that she’s an amazing person worthy of happiness.
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@Martina
@LesleySemmens
@bgilman66
@triggerpod
@andrewdoyle_com
@francisjfoster
@KonstantinKisin
We love you, Martina. Thank you for bravely supporting women's sex based rights when so many privileged people sit in a violent silence.
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@TWlTTERVIOLENCE
@softpurplelife
Talmbout natural hair is difficult to manage
Only if you’re trying to get it to look like anything other than regular Black girl hair…
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@velocciraptor
She never said that. She said biological sex is still a material reality and there are boundaries that should be respected.
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@AWerey
Because most Black women want to date Black men. There’s such a small pool of high achieving Black men and most are taken. The ones who are single usually don’t want to date Black women.
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@KProtein19
@PennSwimDive
@IvyLeague
Catherine Buroker was the real
#1
💫 🌟 ⭐️ and the world knows it.
Each university has a student directory. I think each time a “race” like this occurs people should email the real winner expressing support in addition to voicing public opposition.
#PennCheats
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What Is A Woman documentary, full and free
spoken English, no subtitles or captions unfortunately
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@radfemswiftie
Everything about a healthy natural woman's body is sexy - full stop no qualifier.
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‘Non-men’ is a sexist, disgusting term.
The majority of the human population are women and girls. There’s women/girls and men/boys.
Women are the standard and men can be non-women, then. I refuse to be addressed or grouped as a ‘non-man.’
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Black people don’t need to be cast to play Vikings. Hire Black writers to tell stories of Black people and cast Black actors like we’ve requested.
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@elegationvain
Hardline disagree. I'm a bisexual woman. I date, have sex with, and have monogamous relationships with other women. It's about the joys and pains of being attracted to someone of the same sex.
Bisexuals don't need to be centered AT ALL, but exclusion is harsh and unnecessary.
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@saturniansun
@Nattalie_fem
We need to teach girls to become the best women they can be separate from their parents, friends, or romantic partners so they don’t think they need others to be satisfied.
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@Rebecca35935662
If they’re women, adult human females, why do any have to transition? What are they transitioning from or to? What would a gynecologist, orthopedist, and anthropologist say? Ones from 50 years ago? Ones 50 years from now?
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@Imani_Barbarin
I have a feeling a ton of those same people refused to distance and wear masks and are now un-alive themselves
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I really want to unplug and remove myself from social media, but I also recently received a response from my favorite childhood author, so…
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@MiaChristina_
I got with my ex when I was 17 and she was 25. Not enough people spoke out. I did what I wanted, but I wish more people would’ve tried - and harder. It was toxic. I had 11 years of my young adulthood stolen. I got older, we had kids, and then I woke the hell up and left.
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@not2dayseitan19
I detest being referred to as a queer woman of color. I’m a Black bisexual woman, so I should be referred to as such.
Black.
Bisexual.
Woman.
Full stop. No qualifiers needed. Absolute truth.
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Dear Black people,
Don’t socialize at work. Don’t let those people know a thing about you. Do your best work, get your check, and go.
They’ll weaponize whatever little they know, assume any and all, and even fabricate. Be a stone wall of silence. Cordial at most.
Love,
Sis
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Black women are always beautiful and Black regardless of how we dress, wear our hair, or who we date. The rhetoric in this tweet and the replies is what causes the anti Blackness and self hatred that makes them distance from the full perspectives and range of who and what we are.
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