This video is one of the reasons I love TikTok so much. Here’s a woman doing an incredible job breaking down one of the more dangerous conservative cultural campaigns: telling women to ‘embrace their femininity’. She manages to give a super clear, smart (and funny!) analysis of a complicated topic—and she does it under 3 minutes!
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Speaking of smart women on TikTok! Laura is one of my favorite creators; she’s so good about the politics of domestic work:
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I am also such a huge fan of these Orlando clinic defenders. They do an incredible job of distracting the protesters who come to harass women, and this interaction was both bad-ass and heartbreaking. You really can see something shift in this young woman’s eyes as she hears what her ‘pro-life’ cohorts get up to. Shame? Understanding? I don’t know, but I’m glad that she was made to hear it. (If you want to learn more about this group of defenders/volunteers, here’s their website.)
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