Hannah Moscovitch
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I write for TV and theatre. Stream Little Bird @WatchLittleBird now on @CraveCanada & @APTNlumi PBS in USA. #InterviewWithTheVampire on @Immortal_AMC. she/her
Joined January 2013
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Yeah this is some weird British humility bullshit on Assad's part :) He's an immensely skilled, deliberate (and magnetic) actor.
sometimes i’ll see a theory about why armand made a certain look then i’ll think back to this. like we can say he was maybe angry. or sad. but whole time it could be assad was just hungry.
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Been thinking about this moment when my generally fearless 8 year old son came to the #IWTV set & met Delainey & Assad & Jacob in their vampire eyes & said hi & chatted. Sam Reid asked to meet him - my son backed away, looked shook. I asked why & he said - "He's a vampire".
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Yah I'm oddly proud of this tiny piece of writing. .
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To the fans worried about Armand's arc. Sh. Rest.
watching this after watching that finale scene with daniel and the implications that come with it . oh i'm so excited for the show version of dm
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In theatre school, women got smaller & shittier roles than the men. When I protested, my teachers thew up their hands & said "but that's what the world's like! We're preparing you for the world!" 20 years out I know that's not true. They didn't prepare me, they indoctrinated me.
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When I was 27 I was dating a guy. He said to me: "What do you want most in life?" I said: "The Governor General's Award" (!!! I said that, so cute). He said: "I want a wife and kids." Later, we broke up. Cool to write to him and say I won the Governor General's Award?.
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We were shooting the trial and my son hung out with Chris Geary with his huge scythe and Assad in his box, talking video games, but I couldn't convince him to go up on stage and say hello to Sam.
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I didn't tell Sam. I lied and said my son had gone home. I was worried it would hurt his feelings :) (BUT now I'm telling the whole internet :)).
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I've twice been warned about a performer being "difficult to work with", worked with them anyway, and found out that "difficult to work with" means "a woman who speaks up". In both cases the performers were extraordinarily talented & spoke their minds respectfully. This happens.
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Oh the dudes who say to me: "I'm just warning you, you might only get a female audience for this play." Dudes, I'm good with that. And dudes who don't want to see my female-centred plays, from the bottom of my heart I invite you to get the fuck out.
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@ericbogosian And yeah Assad is an art monster and a formidable human who disguises himself as a sweet lil' pikachu - it's an ambush! (cool that's enough drunk tweeting from me for tonight).
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@ericbogosian Eric - Jacob, Sam, Assad, Delainey, Ben, Luke, Roxanne, you - all of you, I'd sit at the monitor out of my fucking mind. Jesse told me it looked like I was watching the best game of baseball ever played - ninth inning bases loaded - but all day everyday of production.
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Fun that tweeting about Interview with the Vampire means X "For You" thinks I'm a gay man.
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@cineromantic I like you fans so much. The combination of sophisticated and sleazy really does it for me.
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I am in love with these two watching the finale of Interview with the Vampire S2.
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Hey X. Interview with the Vampire - Season Two - Extended Trailer. Season Premieres May 12. We wrote our hearts out.
Feast your eyes on this special extended look at Season 2. #InterviewWithTheVampire premieres May 12 on AMC and AMC+.
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TV Critics Awards Nomination with the show I wrote on circled by me in red.
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Season Two Interview with the Vampire trailer. I am wildly proud of this season. .
There's a new coven waiting in the wings. #InterviewWithTheVampire returns in 2024 on @AMC_TV and @AMCPlus.
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Hey I hope you watch this cute lil' show I've been working on, coming back May 12th.
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@cineromantic Uh oh. In case anyone misunderstands: I genuinely love smutty and smart. It's my favorite combination.
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Producer: What about if, at the end of the story, she forgives him?.Me: No.
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I had a whole life doing theatre that's been swept away in the pandemic (not a complaint, just. accurate). I got to hear a reading of one of my plays this week and it was like remembering I have a superpower I forgot about and don't use anymore. Also actors are magic.
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(PS: For those people who loved Season One, I am sick with anticipation. Season Two is gonna break you.).
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IWTV S2.
BRAG ABOUT SOMETHING YOU’RE PROUD OF ACCOMPLISHING IN 2023 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨.
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Ah too much attention! Am a shy writer! Panicked!.
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I took no photos of the premiere of Interview with the Vampire S2 in New York City so I'm happy a celebrity playwright did -- my lord these two actors pictured are wildly transcendently talented. Writing for them is dreamy.
I feel like if I keep bringing my crushes to Saint Theo’s it’ll be impossible to keep getting a table last minute. Congrats on the premiere @Immortal_AMC.
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One of the more surreal parts of writing on Interview with the Vampire is very occasionally someone's twitter handle will be a line I wrote.
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Twitter, I've nearly done this with Elijah. I've carried his stroller down New York subway steps, thinking to myself: "if I slip, I'll fall backwards with the stroller on top of me & wrap my body around it so he's okay." Maybe offer to help people carrying strollers.
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When theatre people hopefully suggest that theatre will be okay because it can go online I can’t help but think — that’s a good idea but I’m pretty sure someone already had it it’s called television. (Online theatre is for superfans who don’t mind that it’s very bad television.).
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@danielarmands He is. I had jaw-drop moments at the monitor when we were shooting Season Two, Episode Five.
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I've been asked a lot now: why write a #metoo play when so many women are writing them? I get the question (but I really do, we're all brainwashed). Here's the question asked in reverse: "Why write anything about men when we've heard so much about them for so fucking long?" 1/3.
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This is the most obvious and brutal racism. This is genocide-denial. I'm Jewish, and if the Alberta government floated taking the Holocaust out of the curriculum I'd know what to call them. I hope every other Canadian is also breaking furniture in their house right now.
"Recommended changes to the kindergarten-to-Grade 4 curriculum for fine arts and social studies include eliminating all references to residential schools and their harms to Indigenous people and removing references to "equity."".
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My 4-year-old son's frisbee flew in the wind into the path of a couple out walking. He ran to within eight feet of them and then stopped dead. I saw the couple register happy astonishment that a tiny child was obeying social distancing. And then profound existential despair.
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My son started school in the pandemic, when he was 5. So I have yet to see the inside of his school. I just push him past the "parents line" and yell "get in there!" Anything could be in that school. Anything. Vampires. Unicorns. Who the fuck knows?.
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Once you state in public that you're a feminist women in their 80s & 90s will come up to you & whisper things like "when I wanted to get a job my husband fought me on it but I fought back" and "I have a dirty mind for sex & have hidden it all my life" etc. Anyway, I recommend it.
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I will get offered a gig or a possible gig and I will say -- no, I can't do it, I don't know how, I don't have enough experience. Then I will hear that a male colleague, younger than me, with half my CV, took or got that gig, and I will think WOW WOW really WOW. #confidencegap.
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I say this sometimes to starting-out playwrights and it seems to relieve them so here: I didn't have a professional production of my work until I was 29, and I spent my whole 20s working in a bar and being rejected by every theatre and granting body in Canada, and writing badly.
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Hey RPC, I went on birth control for 15 years, fucked a bunch of hot men who were amazing, worked on my writing career, met my hot husband, had a kid with him at 36, love my husband, love my son, and am a professional writer who works consistently on meaningful projects. Yay!.
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@JoametteGil The police were called when I was hit by a car. It knocked me out. I woke up in hospital to a police officer giving me a ticket for jay walking. My heart started to accelerate - I was on a heart monitor that alerted the nurses - they came running in and kicked the cop out.
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I gotta say - men explaining to me why I shouldn't have written my play from the male point of view because that isn't feminist - is my new favorite.
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In 2016 I was in Stratford, sprinting home on a break from rehearsal to nurse my son, and mumbling lines from the play to myself trying to revise them, and the cops stopped me and asked if I was on meth. #secretlifeofamother.
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It's stunning that I can write play after play about women being sexually assaulted and in abuse-of-power relationships and no one thinks I'm writing about myself. It's as though we don't believe these things actually happen. It's as though we don't believe it.
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Being in theatre right now feels like there's been an airplane crash and we're all huddled in the life raft in the middle of the ocean and the two shitty psychological options are "I'm going to die here" or "I really love rafting.".
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A WEEK left to watch Season One of Interview with the Vampire on HBO MAX (in America). .
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So many Conservatives worried about having money (CERB) acting as a disincentive to work! OMG I AGREE but I want them to go first - let's take all their TRUST FUNDS and INVESTMENTS ACCOUNTS away! Cause that fuckpile of $$$ must be disincentive-izing them!.
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Lately, I have felt especially heartsick for those artists who were about to have their first productions when their art form went dormant.
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I think everyday about the fancy agent in New York City who said to me: "Making theatre in Toronto is like making theatre in Denver. Maybe there's good theatre there but nobody gives a fuck.".
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If you're in the States, a show I wrote on, Interview with the Vampire, is streaming on HBO MAX starting Sept 1! (yay!).
Max is The One to Watch when you want even more. Your weekend watchlist just got longer with a selection of AMC+ handpicked favorites.
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Okay twitter. It's been a weird day. Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story has been nominated for 4 @DramaDeskAwards. I'm up against Tina Fey for Outstanding Book of a Musical hahaha ahhhh brrrmmmm WHAT.
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So the next man who says to me "The Russian Play doesn't say much about Russia. ?", is it offside for me to scream in their face: "Holy fuck it's a feminist piece about love being dangerous for WOMEN it's about WOMEN Russia is a metaphor you fucking loser." 1/2.
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I can say publicly now that I'm working on a 10-part original audio drama series about witches for @audible_com. Many formidable artists are working on projects as part of the inaugural slate: Tanya Talaga, Colm Feore, Catherine Hernandez.
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I've written a new play, Post-Democracy. I was commissioned to write it in 2007 so yay I finally finished it. Yesterday it started rehearsals in Winnipeg @PrairieTheatre and you'll be able to watch a digital version of the project soon.
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Leadership in theatre is usually making artists feels like they're lucky to be working at a theatre at all & putting artists through dumb competitions. Leadership in other mediums is usually making artists feel it's a collaborative relationship in which everyone is respected.
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I'm often frustrated in theatre by how much we accept that directors can speak for playwrights. Directors, in my experience, are uneven in terms of their comprehension of what playwrights do and need, and what writing is. Some are illiterate. Playwrights can speak for themselves.
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I’m going to have two plays onstage in TO for 3 days from Feb 6th to Feb 9th - Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes @tarragontheatre and Secret Life of a Mother @crowstheatre - so you can pick how you’d like to be bummed out.
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Came onto twitter to tell you I'm reading a 14th Century text about witches - for an upcoming project - and in one story the witch steals the penises of all the men and all the priests in the village, which feels pretty on the nose even for the 14th Century.
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Many women have been assaulted and/or preyed on and/or harassed just like how many men have a complex relationship with their dad. So many women are writing about #metoo. Personally I'm delighted for audiences to get a break from "DADS ARE HARD". 3/3.
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Have been thinking of the first 10 years of my career when I thought but could not say: "There are no plays by women in your 9 play season. And when women come onstage in those plays, it's only briefly, to complicate the plot for the men, usually by hesitating to fuck them.".
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I've been thinking a lot about what run-of-the-mill sexism/anti-woman bias sounds like from audience members. Here's what it DOES NOT sound like: "I hate ladies." Here's what it DOES sound like: "When that character Brian came on the play finally got going." 1/3.
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I'm weirdly so happy that the show I've been writing on in America is topping the TV charts at home in Canada. #IWTV
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Conservatives - Erin O'Toole - make the argument that the people who ran Residential Schools were trying to to do good. Listen, the Nazis at Auschwitz thought they were doing good. They were building a better world, free of Jews. It's a terrible fucking argument.
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These are just their faves by men. Their faves by women come out tomorrow.
What an amazing decade for new plays on #Broadway! Here are 10 of our faves, the #TonyAwards-winning Best Plays from 2010-2019.
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The language of enthusiasm is overused, and can ring false, but uh, when I started out, whole seasons of theatre blew by with no works by women in them, like eleven plays in a season all by men was so normal no one commented on it. And now:.
We're SO excited to share the news of our Six Women Writing commissioning project! ♀️ In the works are new plays by @treyanthony, Sandra Caldwell, @FalenJohnson, @moscotweets, @katsandler & Erin Shields! For details on how YOU can support their work visit:
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Do Americans know that Canadians sit up here, just North of them, and full-out stare at them like they're TV, and what's on TV is a zombie apocalypse sci-fi horror Gilead Nazi movie.
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@nocontextlestat For what little it's worth, I'm one of the writers on the show, and I love your account.
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The industries I work in can't find a happy medium between shitting on me and handing me awards.
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Twitter, I wrote on the first season of AMC's upcoming Interview With the Vampire. It's premiering in less than a month, on October 2nd. I am insanely proud of it. From the bottom of my heart I want you to watch. Here's the latest trailer.
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Sometimes I think that I have a secret - and having this secret makes me feel like I’m kind of a rebel - and it’s that I know, from the very bottom of my heart, that I’m good at my job.
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A few days ago my three-year-old son handed me a tampon and said “here mom this is for your vagina”.
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Twitter, I just opened a play called Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes - retweeted stuff about it, will retweet more later, don't want to swamp you. It felt crazy. I haven't wanted to curl up & die from pure vulnerability at an opening like that since 2007 East of Berlin.
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Thank you to the Canada Council for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama. The most beautiful part is looking back to past nominees & recipients & dreaming forward to future ones & thinking - if I am with them then I am happy. #GGBooks2021.
📚💖 Groundbreaking, poetic, entertaining and moving: here are the #GGBooks2021 winners in Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Non-fiction, Young People's Literature - Text, Young People's Literature - Illustrated Books, and Translation. Congratulations! #CanLit
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Umm. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
I so so rarely am CREAMING over the pens of American made things, it’s just not really my taste usually. BUT THIS PEN? THIS PEN IS OLD WAY! That writers room goes AWF!!!! NO SKIPS! ALL HITS NO MISSES!!! . True southern gothic lit shit.
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Someone loathed one of my plays so much that in their comments to the artistic director they wrote: "WHO IS THE MAYOR OF THIS CITY SO I CAN COPY THEM ON THIS COMPLAINT?".
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I wrote a play about 1920s abortions. But is it relevant, they said. But what does it have to do with modernity, they said.
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Twitter, I graduated from an Ontario high school in 1996. While we grade 9 girls learned how to "say no" and how to defend ourselves against rapists jumping out of bushes, the boys in our class played dodge ball.
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@nbargamian1 agreed. he is very sweet. I am Canadian - we're humble people - but Assad had me beat.
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The rolling chaos of a 50-person birthday zoom for a 75 year old Jewish man. No one knows if they can be heard. No one knows if their video is on. No one knows who shared their screen. Everyone is screaming.
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This is like that time I fucked that DJ in that bathroom and had to wait for a week on the STI tests.
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I'm kinda amazed by this anti-abortion kid who says the quiet part out loud - being anti-abortion isn't about preserving life, it's about punishing women for "sleeping around.".
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Quick question. Would you want to see a piece of theatre about two characters -- Brett Kavanaugh and Ruth Bader Ginsberg? Them in their downtime together on the supreme court? [[[[this isn't the type of content I normally take on, but I'm curious]]]].
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My British friends and family can watch Interview with the Vampire on BBC. .
BBC Buys 'Interview With The Vampire' From AMC Networks
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Men Explain My Art to Me. Could be a title of something I write. Also, Men are Lucky I am Ok With Being Lightly Patronized.
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Hey twitter this came out a month ago and I didn't tell you.
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James Sikes (20s, smoking hot).James Sikes (30s, but still attractive).James Sikes (40s, once a great beauty).
Introduce a male character like male screenwriters describe women characters, GO.
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"Why was it so focused on domestic issues?" (because it's about birth control, which is pretty political, you fucking loser). "What if at the end you restart the whole thing but from Brian's point of v--" OH MY GOD FOR FUCK'S SAKE I GET IT YOU'RE NOT INTERESTED IN WOMEN!!!!.
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Twitter, in 2023, Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story, a music-theatre hybrid about my Romanian great-grandparents coming as refugees to Canada in 1908, and about being a refugee, co-written with @bencaplanmusic & @XtianBarry for @2btheatre, will cross the 400 performances mark.
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Twitter, I think maybe when we say a woman "is easy to work with" it's a dog whistle term for "will laugh it off when being abused".
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When my working class mother went to college she'd never met a single other person who'd been. She became a social worker in London UK in the 70s - she fought to unionize her workforce, and they collectively REFUSED to separate poor mothers from their children. She's a heroine.
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