We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist

James Baldwin

I have a theory: men are jealous of a women’s ability to create life. Destruction is noted in callous behavior in their younger years — the throwing of their toy cars, the hitting, slapping, touching, killing. He cries toward a female god, of women in witchcraft, or how she wishes to be in doctor offices and law firms and science labs or behind podiums. Before the patriarchy, animals became their first target [they were unable to talk back, only, more feasibly, scream]: killing, maiming, dissecting, selling, raping, until they derived some pleasure: Female orangutangs in prostitution circles for years, the control over breeding season as they mix chihuahua’s and Doberman’s, the statistical link of animal cruelty and serial killers, until they searched for something which held the equivalency of their human life — this time they wanted the power of knowing they could kill something akin to them, the struggle from which their pleasure could derive. [The, ‘I may not be able to create life, but I can dictate yours’ mentality, which has developed in the coming centuries.] 

Of course, they needed inspiration… they became prophets, scribes, poets, a gender foundational to intelligence. Education was turned to the legal, the social, the economically integral as head of house, the political as ‘leaders’. Religion was constructed, forced upon the crippling bones of an empire, barely held together by screeching voices and murderous intentions — was it then, as the blood filled the space before them, that death was all their hands could proctor? Movies made them hero’s, books made them murderous, war was strictly ordered by them; the atomic bomb, chemical warfare, gas chambers, torture shaped by bronze statues and state guillotines, Greek myths depicting disease and loose heads — for man, it was easier to cut off the hand before one held it.  

Did they look upon mothers with scorn, as they damned Eve for the thirst of want — crucified her mouth, tied ribbon around the throat, held hands over the eyes, until she was no longer a God, but a womb facing death. Was it the purity they could no longer garner themselves — the body composed in the blood of their mother — that woman then, needed to be punished? What to make of the virgin Mary, betrothed at 12, a mother — a creator — discarded for the man, the sacred son, the one who developed a voice from the calcium of her bones, damned for the flesh of her womb, given to a son which must caress the hand of the holy. 

They have become refined in their methods of torture. Playful tones, sly hands meant to caress, and shirts for toddlers demanding their feet cemented to a future kitchen. Donned in white, with rings burned into fingers caked of dish soap, forced to walk in circles around his chair, city sidewalks, a grasping hand of an uncle. We become news stories, death upon death, martyred, served, punished, praised by few, dedicated by housewife, chopped up, blended, denied, sold, brain dead, raped, buried by the river, prostitutes, riddled in childbirth… [at the hand of pastors, fathers, boyfriends, [or most of all, never found] 

Men constitute 99.3% of those arrested for child pornography offenses

Men constitute 99% of those arreseted for mass shootings

Men constitute 96% of those arrested for incest

Men constitute 95% of those arrested for serious domestic abuse

Men constitue 91% of those arrested for familicide

A desperate attempt to know God, to prove their righteousness [power], through honor killings, acid attacks, megachurches, abortion bans, mass shootings, church in schools, until they become their own metaphorical god. A needed advantage after the knowing barrier of her ability to create and God’s ability to nurture life — he must by nature, assume a religious opposition by death, severing the cord from a womb — until God becomes a father, and soon, believe a man might just be God after all. 

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I suppose now it would be crucial to scream. March in streets, hands clenched and held, and as the photographs are taken of blotchy faces and burning lips, we can pose alongside a replica in our history books. I suppose. As it spans centuries, until the history books cannot keep up, loaded in black-and-white stills, lengthy in the next protest and country and overruling of their rights to hold their body as their own. I suppose. 

Yell fire, I suppose. Die from sepsis, I suppose. Become a doctor, only to be called a nurse, I suppose. Drug yourself on valium and amphetamines, become the wife he has always wanted, I suppose. Die on magazine covers with a hand over each breast, I suppose. Be a black woman, toyed by the medical industry, noted that you do not carry any pain within your body, I suppose. Have your land stolen and your body sterilized as a Native American woman, I suppose. 

Become a women destined to fall down the stairs, train tracks, suitcases, i suppose. Sacrifice my womb, hold its bloody, beating body apart from mine, apart from this flesh which can make a voice loud enough to drown out mine. How much would my skin be worth then? I suppose, not enough.  

Be a woman, I suppose

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“Once upon a time there was a wicked witch and her name was

Lilith

Eve

Hagar

Jezebel

Delilah

Pandora

Jahi

Tamar

and there was a wicked witch and she was also called a goddess and her names was

Kali

Fatima

Artemis

Hera

Isis

Mary

Ishtar

and there was a wicked witch and she was also called queen and her name was

Bathsheba

Vashti

Cleopatra

Helen

Salomé

Elizabeth

Clyemnestra

Medea

and there was a wicked witch and she was also called witch and her name was

Joan

Circe

Morgan le Fay

Tiamat

Maria Leonza

Medusa

and they had this in common: that they were feared, hated, desired, and worshiped”

Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating: A Radical Look at Sexuality (1974)

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To:

Josseli Barnnica, Amber Thurman, Candi Miller, Nevaeh Crain, Kyleigh Thurman, Kiersten Hogan, Elizabeth Weller, Mylissa Farmer, Amanda Zurawski, Jaci Statton, Kristen Anaya, Cristina Nuñez, Kylie Beaton, Samantha Casiano.

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By now, I wish to make this article clear. A week later, I speak on the devastation of hearing the election results — of watching another qualified, strong woman be devalued, picked apart, slut shamed, and cast aside, not only for simply being a woman, but also being a black woman in the United States.

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There was a loud distaste from my corner of the house growing up — a burning, sobbing, moment of a young girl burdened by a skin, made from the women of another. In trying to find my identity i cried for black women, people of color all around the world, of those homeless, the millions in the foster care system, those apart of the LGBTQ+ community, the disabled, the starving, the veterans sold the American dream and riddled in PTSD, I suppose you must understand where I am coming from here. 

Within those foundation years of a women’s life, which may seem to be all, but more specifically I am speaking upon those brutal teenage years, the years filled with boxes on a bedside table as you shape it around your waist and keep it filled with rubber bands. As your mind must be shaped by the advancement of others, of the sexual escapades you must be aware of to protect yourself, of the foods you must watch and the hobbies you need to just become, interesting. It is in those blistering school lights, first period, or the moment to breath at lunch, where you see the pre-occupied space, you must take up, squished alongside every other woman who has come before you. Sold alongside the American dream, fear must linger, like a father in the room beside you. You must dream of love, think too deeply of your madness and write about it [not intelligently, your progression could only be marked by the fanatical, you don’t know the ‘real’ world like a man], and by men’s desire of the feminine presentation, don’t think of politics, economics, physics, technology, law, finance, or the mind at all.  

Instead, you should understand the man [the heroine, the one always wielding a sword, the leader, the one strong enough to kill you] and as the voting statics have announcing young men to be the most influential toward Trump’s campaign, this must simmer here: “Trump embodied an aggressive, testosterone-driven masculinity that many conservative evangelicals had already come to equate with a God given authority to lead”. It was this unfortunate mentality, man derived consequential connection between Trump and God, and unsurprising to a very similar group of people, he becomes their savior (from his increased tariffs? I am still trying to come up with their correlation here…) 

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Recently, Trump’s cabinet has been ‘formed’ for his next term in office — this reads like an episode from Family Guy, so please laugh with me.

Elon Musk becomes the “Department of Government Efficiency”; Manipulates the stock market in order to further enrich himself on a regular basis; took on $13 billion in debt to purchase Twitter [how is this financially reasonable?]; He reinstated thousands of accounts belonging to prominent neo-Nazis, white nationalists, misogynists, anti-immigrant and transphobic figures; i feel like this one is self-explanatory…

Matt Gaetz as “Attorney General” — accused of child sex trafficking, statutory rape, illicit drug use, underage sexual abuse, illegal drug use, sharing inappropriate images and videos on the House floor, misusing state identification records, converting campaign funds for personal use, and accepting impermissible gifts; invited alt-right Holocaust denier Charles C. Johnson to attend Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. Johnson previously raised money for the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer; Gaetz’s office acknowledged that he spent $28,000 on speech-writing services, which is prohibited by House rules; Gaetz organized a “storming” of a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility on Capitol Hill by about two dozen Republican congressmen; tweeted “The mob wants to destroy America. We need PATRIOTS who will defend her” after Kyle Rittenhouse killed two people in protest — he then offered him a congressional internship.

Tulsi Gabbard — “Director of National Intelligence” — raised on the teachings of the Science of Identity Foundation [criticized for their condemnation of homosexuality and hostility toward Islam have been heavily criticized.]; Successfully led opposition and protests to a state bill that would have legalized same-sex civil unions; She has no qualifications as an intelligence professional — a role which would oversee 18 intelligence agencies and over 70,000 people; an apologist for both the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and Russia’s Vladimir Putin 

Pete Hegseth as “Secretary of Defense” — Fox News TV Host, never held a political role, is to assume the position of leading over a million troops in the United States; persuaded Trump to pardon three American soldiers accused or convicted of war crimes related to the shooting of non-combatants in Iraq; [his issue with education, speaking upon Harvard]: “that as conservatives and patriots, if we love this country, we can’t keep sending our kids and elevating them to universities that are poisoning their mind.”; Hegseth also criticized the US military slogan “our diversity is our strength”, calling it the “dumbest phrase on planet Earth”.; accused of committing sexual assault in a hotel room after speaking at a California Federation of Republican Women event in Monterey, California 

Kristi Noem as “Homeland Security Secretary” — shot her pet dog to show she is willing to do anything ‘difficult, messy and ugly’ in politics; Noem co-sponsored legislation that would federally ban abortion; Noem used pandemic relief funds to promote tourism during a surge in cases in the state — She used $819,000 of those funds to have the state’s Department of Tourism run a 30-second Fox News commercial she narrated during the 2020 Republican National Convention; In 2019, Noem signed a bill into law abolishing South Dakota’s permit requirement to carry a concealed handgun; Noem opposes same-sex marriage. 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as “US Health Secretary” – Not only would he be in charge of a multi-trillion-dollar budget, he has aired out two decades worth of false claims about vaccines [America, I hope you like Measels]; made the damaging claims that vaccines were linked to autism [I really cannot explain this for the millionth time]; The stock prices of vaccine makers like Moderna, Pfizer and Merck fell after Trump announced his pick. [I just had to add this in as I laughed when I read it]; He later tweeted, “psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything else that advances human health and can’t be patented”.[I have seen this pattern before, if you find yourself aware at this stage, go eat a pint of Ben and Jerry’s]; “Kennedy has described his position as advocating for medical freedom and raising concerns about government overreach in public health matter” [Are we beginning to see how hypocritical this is?] I would add on his drug felony, but apparently 34 means nothing, so I will let you make that very decisive decision. 

Unsurprising, If he appointed Casey Anthony to Director and Child and Family Services, I would not be shocked.

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Quickly, there are a few points I wish to just leave here, on some text-filled paper, maybe to remember or for you to question: 

A Few Constitutional freedoms revoked by Project 2025: 

1. “Unitary executive theory” — entire federal bureaucracy will be placed under direct presidential control. The 922-page document proceeded to list the FBI as a “bloated, arrogant, increasingly lawless organization.” The proposal also extends to “declassif[ying] government records”  

2. The closing of the Department of Education, an idea Trump has endorsed. Established in 1979, the program “oversees funding for public schools, administers student loans and runs programs to help low-income students” while also “enforc[ing] civil rights laws that prevents race or sex-based discrimination in federally funded schools.” 

3. After being mentioned over 200 times in the document, abortion should be centered around data collection and “maintain a biblically based, social science-reinforced definition of marriage and family”. 

4. Deportation is another main point of the document, where they have spoken to the mass deportation, eleven million in total, (a feat which would cost over 88 billion a year, even though the undocumented immigrants pay over 96 million in taxes in 2022 alone). The inhuman and ethical conditions which families are already subjected to, when Trump devised his wall in 2016, feature children in cages too young to list the names of their parents.  

5. Climate — they propose to “slash federal money for research and investment in renewable energy and calls for the next president to “stop the war on oil and natural gas”. This eventually develops into the tariffs, which Trump extensively touches on with his campaign, yet people still seem unclear of what Tariffs mean… 

I am just going to leave this here: “It proposes to eliminate a long list of terms from all laws and federal regulations, including “sexual orientation”, “gender equality”, “abortion” and “reproductive rights”. Following this idea of white America, it also wishes to “end diversity, equity and inclusion programs in schools and government departments” 

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Do men know of this rage or only the violence which they suppose, follows? 

From my history, I know listing facts, statistics, articles leads me no listening ears — a severed connection of human interaction once again follows the history of American politics — and so I should write a monologue I suppose, yet I fear, all that I have learned, seen, felt, heard, will simply not matter. I can interject of the hope I had for the people [that is what matters right?] But hope was never a sought object, it was already commodified, ran through for the possibility of economic prosperity and teeth-clenching lies.  

The United States of America has become a playground. Run by those who lack integrity and prize loyalty over ability, until it is left to crumble on the backs of millions of people. While I am sure my words lack eloquence, I do wish to make clear the rage I have felt and I am sure everyone around the world felt, so it feels necessary to end with: 

“To the young people who are watching, it is okay to feel sad and disappointed, but please know it is going to be okay. On the campaign, I would often say, when we fight, we win. But here is the thing, sometimes the fight takes a while. That doesn’t mean we won’t win. That doesn’t mean we won’t win. The important thing is, don’t ever give up. Don’t ever give up. Don’t ever stop trying to make the world a better place” 

Kamala Harris 

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“We have worked to hard and fought too long to see out daughters grow up in a world with fewer rights than our mothers”

1900 – Women Gained Property and Wage Rights

1910 – Women Could Wear Paints

1920 – White Women Could Vote

1963 – Women Gainted Equal Pay Right (Still Questionable)

1965 – Black Women Could Vote

1969 – Women were Allowed to Initate Dicorce from their Hisbands

1972 – Women Could Get Birth Control, Without A Man

1973 – Roe V. Wade

1974 – Women Could Buy A Home, Without A Man

1975 – Women Could Open a Bank Account Under Their Name

1988 – Women Could Own Their Own Buisness, Without A Man

1994 – Women Gained Legal Protection Against Domestic Violence

2022 – Roe V. Wade Overturned

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Book recomendations, as reading is always political:

I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqeline Harpman

A Girl’s Story, Anne Ernaux

The Woman Destroyed, Simon De Beauvoir

Doppelganger, Naomi Klein

A Woman, Sibilla Aleramo

Your Silence Will Not Protect You, Audre Lorde

Study for Obedience, Sarah Bernstein

Biography of X, Catherine Lacey

Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel

Recollection of my Non-Existence, Rebecca Solnil

Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi

The Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferante

Of Cattle and Men, Ana Paula Maia

A Woman is no Man, Etaf Rum

Assembly, Natasha Brown

Death in her Hands, Ottessa Moshfegh

Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad

Sex and Lies, Leila Slimani

Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis, Dean Spade

Let This Radicalize You, Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba

Men Who Hate Women, Laura Bates

The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

Hood Feminism, Mikki Kendall

Women, Race & Class, Angele Y. Davis

Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit

Invisible Women: Data Biased in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado Perez

A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf

We Should All Be Feminist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Freedom As A Constant Struggle, Angela Davis

Woman Hating: A Radical Look at Sexuality, Andrea Dworkin

Hood Feminism, Mikki Kendall

On Women, Susan Sontag

On Women On The Ground: Essays By Arab Women Reporting From The Arab World

Becoming Abolitionsit, Police, Protests, and The Pursuit of Freedom, Derecka Purnell

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, Jose Antonio Vargas

Go Tell It On The Mountain, James Baldwin

Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga

Jesus and John Wayne, Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Poverty By America, Matthew Desmond

One Nation Under Guns, Dominic Erdozain

The Heat Will Kill You First, Jeff Goodell

Caste, Isabel Wilkerson

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To Women who live in:

El Savador, Malta, Phillipines, San Marino, Andorra, Eygpt, Haiti, Iraq, Mauritiania, Senegal, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Republic of the Congo, Suriname and Alabama, American Somoa, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Mariana Islands, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virgina, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, South Carolina, Nebraska, North Carolina, Guam, Arizona, Utah

Look to:

Vitamin C (2-4 times a day), Mugwort, Dong Quai, Black Cohosh, Mothetwort, Damiana, Tansy, Anjelica Root, Queen Anne’s Lace, and Thuja.

Websites:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/jul/29/abortion-laws-bans-by-state

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2024/07/11/how-project-2025-could-radically-reshape-higher-ed

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/11/tulsi-gabbard-nomination-security/680649/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristi_Noem

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c977njnvq2do

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79zxzj90nno

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gx3kkz8z3o

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