Because when a woman says she won’t get married or have children, she’s not just making a personal choice but she’s rejecting an entire social contract that was never designed with her freedom in mind. They were never taught how to exist in a world where women are not dependent

Did you get all your work done this week? No. Well did you manage to relax a little? No. But you’re at least energised for the weekend? No.

PLANS are underway to establish an I SRAELI CULTURAL CENTER, known as a Chabad House, in Siargao, MINDANAO! Maria Tokong, a young woman native to Siargao, conveys significant disquiet and a carefully articulated opposition to this development. 1

Free Palestine today so you don't have to free Siargao tomorrow

I don’t agree. Healing and moving on aren’t solely about self-esteem or self-respect. That’s too simplistic and frankly unfair. Sometimes, it’s not about how much you value yourself, but how deeply you were hurt, how safe you feel now, how supported you are, or how long the grief

Capitalism loves to paint prehistory as savage chaos, where only the ‘fittest’ thrived. But hunter-gatherers lived in deeply cooperative bands, sharing food, shelter, and care. The system erases that truth because it exposes capitalism as the real outlier in human history.

The question I have is: what is the Philippine government doing about what's happening in Siargao? Is it just going to allow gentrification & marginalization of Siargao's locals in their own lands by gen*cidaires?

Struggling to finish writing this paper before the 30th 😭! Tweeting this for accountability purposes 🤪

Choice feminism is a feminist framework that centers individual choice as the core of feminist liberation. In simple terms it means if a woman chooses something,it is inherently feminist. Whether it's becoming a stay at home wife, participating in sex work,

my brain when i'm trying to write

imposter syndrome is hilarious because you'll do something, do it well, get extensive praise for doing it well, then tell yourself that you absolutely suck at it

I no longer want to hold academics in high esteem. I think they are shackled & limited by the university as an institution - reduced to playing the game & dealing with bureaucracy that they're essentially prevented from being really progressive. I see more meaning in communities.

just realised that a specific eminent female scholar of transfemininity is c!s and i'm like actually stunned lmao

RIP German anthropologist Johannes Fabian, who passed away last week. He was most widely known for "Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object" (1983), a then-radical & still-influential critique of anthropological writing, knowledge-making & fieldwork relations.

Attributing trans women’s behavior to being “raised as men” positions them as men with residual flaws and implies that womanhood is a standard they’re failing to meet, which is both transmisogynistic and misogynistic

non-transitioning trans people live very different lives from transitioning trans people and that shouldn't be a controversial statement at all. it's common sense, i fear.