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Rachel 🩷 🍉

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Rachel 🩷 🍉

@shoujoscholar

Rachel. Palestinian-American. She/Her. 3rd Year PhD student. Shoujo fan. Teacher. CR: Marginal anilist.co/user/shoujosch…

Joined March 2014

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Rachel 🩷 🍉
@shoujoscholar
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I finished seduced by the demon king and it was ... eh. I know I should expect smut to have a good story, so little of it does, but I still kind of do. I also finished Burn the House Down which was INCREDIBLE. I got to the last two volumes and I genuinely couldn't stop reading.
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Rachel 🩷 🍉
@shoujoscholar
Sep 23, 2024
Hi. Condoms are free because of the AIDS epidemic. Thousands of people died for those free condoms. It can and should be a BOTH. It can be a free condoms AND free pads. Free condoms are LIFE SAVING. I'm begging people to learn their queer history.
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@luvblessingz
Sep 21, 2024
free condoms but not pads? reproduction is a choice. menstruation is biological. talk about priorities
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Rachel 🩷 🍉
@shoujoscholar
Jul 7, 2025
honestly how women are drawn in a manga is typically (though not always) a good clue for what demographic a manga series is.
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Rachel 🩷 🍉
@shoujoscholar
Feb 12, 2025
the reason most shounen manga have queer undertones is because the mangaka hate women so that they only develop the male characters and make the most significant relationships with other men. the "homoromanticism within most shounen manga is a direct result of misogyny.
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Rachel 🩷 🍉
@shoujoscholar
Sep 2, 2024
thinking about how women carry fandoms, and their readership can actually make or break a shounen series, but men would rather contract the bubonic plague than pick up a shoujo series.
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Rachel 🩷 🍉
@shoujoscholar
Jan 8, 2024
"don't call yourself a free people if you can't stop a genocide that's ongoing" motaz is so right. are we free? are we living in a democracy if our politicians willfully ignore their people and bypass so-called checks and balances to participate in a genocide?
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Rachel 🩷 🍉
@shoujoscholar
Aug 11, 2025
We've barely had same sex marriage legal for ten years. It was the 10th anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26th of THIS YEAR.
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@PopCrave
Aug 11, 2025
The Supreme Court has been formally asked to overturn its landmark same-sex marriage ruling. Kim Davis, who was jailed for six days for refusing to issue a marriage license to a gay couple, has filed an appeal in her case.
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Rachel 🩷 🍉
@shoujoscholar
Sep 23, 2024
Replying to @yourmom1__
Purity culture and anti-choice rhetoric! That is not far off of "just keep your legs closed."
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Rachel 🩷 🍉
@shoujoscholar
Jul 7, 2025
Replying to @shoujoscholar
like if a series has a lot of panels focused on giant breasts, I think it's easy to ask yourself "hey, who gets enjoyment from the objectification of women?" and then the answer to that is likely (though not always) your answer on which demographic this series is geared towards.
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Rachel 🩷 🍉
@shoujoscholar
Sep 23, 2024
Replying to @bowbellum
Yes, I agree. Pads should be free. I hate that this is framed as an either or concept, and also yes the government ignored AIDs. People organized and fought for free condoms. They are quite literally a public health and safety thing. Also poor people should get to have safe sex.
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Rachel 🩷 🍉
@shoujoscholar
Feb 12, 2025
Replying to @shoujoscholar
When you hate women so much you can't imagine them as characters with an interior life, you don't develop them or their relationships with the other characters around them, yeah people are going to produce queer readings of a work.
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Rachel 🩷 🍉
@shoujoscholar
Aug 5, 2024
I actually think Kimi ni Todoke is the perfect example of how I would like to see teacher x student done, in that it's unrequited. I think it's rather normal for young girls to crush on older men in their life. 1/
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Rachel 🩷 🍉
@shoujoscholar
Aug 2, 2024
fake anime fans think all shoujo is romance.
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Rachel 🩷 🍉
@shoujoscholar
Feb 12, 2025
Replying to @shoujoscholar
Also shoujo is queer as hell, and considering the first full length serial shoujo manga was princess knight, and it was about a person born with the heart of a boy and the heart of a girl. be so fucking serious with me right now.
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