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Sophie Lewis
@reproutopia
writer/theorist • ReproUtopia on Patreon • THE LIBERATION OF CHILDREN forthcoming • FEMMEPHILIA • ENEMY FEMINISMS • ABOLISH THE FAMILY • FULL SURROGACY NOW •
Philadelphia, PA
Joined December 2015
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    Over 300 writers and counting are boycotting NYT Opinion til NYT calls for an arms embargo on Israel, conducts a review into anti-Palestinian bias, & retracts 'Screams without Words.' Find out more here: boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boycott Then, if a writer, join us: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
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    Duolingo foments class consciousness
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    Move over Jordan Peterson this veterinary handbook contains the real rules for life
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    Doctors Without Borders saying it hasn't seen brutality like the destruction of Gaza - and governmental inaction to stop it like this - ever before
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    By cracking down on porn and sex industry content, OnlyFans is effectively making loads and loads of working-class people unemployed and even more precarious, in the middle of a pandemic. Why does the mainstream left have not all that much to say about this?
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    pundits rn still be like: it's actually only "a coup" if implemented among non-white people outside the imperial core, otherwise it's just sparkling autocracy
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    Hey, none of us came out the womb understanding settler colonialism. And everything we're told in the West is designed to conceal the truth of it from us forever. If you were confused last week about "Israel-Palestine," don't be ashamed. Be a model of publicly changing your mind.
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    A lot of nice houses standing empty lads - move in
    Super-rich jet off to disaster bunkers amid coronavirus outbreak theguardian.com/world/2020/mar…
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    It's your girl, dunking on England, empire and trans-women-exclusionary radical pseudofeminists in America's paper of record
    Last week, two British women calling themselves "feminists" stormed onto Capitol Hill for the purposes of ambushing a trans woman. Does the idea that transphobic harassment could be “feminist” bewilder you? You are not alone, writes @reproutopia. nyti.ms/2DVUiu8
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    Well, I watched "My Octopus Teacher" on netflix: a flawed but moving documentary about a straight man who has a lifechanging erotic relationship with a female octopus. I cried, then read out loud to my friends the entirety of @amiasrinivasan's 2017 essay (lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v39/…)
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    Sorry to disappoint if you wanted a Barbie take from me. I just saw it, all I have to say is it's a cute movie about men, miserable politics & pacing; wonderful sets; Ryan Gosling brilliantly funny; Gerwig feminism an absolute mess of course. Disney humanism. An intellectual void
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    No accident that the aesthetic here is pure white-nationalist imperial nostalgia. Cisfeminism is a "colonial common sense" (Ann Stoler's term) that animates a recurrent internal counterrevolution in women's liberation. TERFs arent just the Brexiteers of feminism, they're the EDL.
    'Women' in UK law now refers only to biological sex. Congratulations from LGB Alliance Australia to the immense work that 'For Women Scotland' has undertaken to help enshrine reality back into law. This landmark verdict will be remembered. Let the fight for reason continue.
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    Reminder: Asa Seresin's term heteropessimism/fatalism, coined in 2019, describes a postfeminist mood of resigned, anti-utopian misandry among straight women who have no intention either of eschewing heterosexuality or, for that matter, transforming it. 4B is a different fatalism.
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    Literally the founder of Likud telling Genocide Joe that his bloodlust for Palestinians is a bit much ... in 1982! (courtesy of Pankaj Mishra lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…)
    In 1982, shortly before Reagan bluntly ordered Begin to cease his ‘holocaust’ in Lebanon, a young US senator who revered Elie Wiesel as his great teacher met the Israeli prime minister. In Begin’s own stunned account of the meeting, the senator commended the Israeli war effort and boasted that he would have gone further, even if it meant killing women and children. Begin himself was taken aback by the words of the future US president, Joe Biden. ‘No, sir,’ he insisted. ‘According to our values, it is forbidden to hurt women and children, even in war ... This is a yardstick of human civilisation, not to hurt civilians.’