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god is a woman in her full power
on Florence Welch, E Jean Carroll and my daughters
 • Rebecca Woolf
support your local women artist(s)
a thank you note and a favor
 • Rebecca Woolf
"pics or it didn't happen" and the cultural refusal to believe a woman's truth without "proof"
(if a woman cannot prove she was felled in a forest, do her screams make a sound?)
 • Rebecca Woolf
we should all know more about each other
on public shaming, storytelling, and the secret lives of women who were once girls
 • Rebecca Woolf
people are broke, desperate and selling their souls for the good of white supremacy just like they always have
it isn't just MAGA racists who are working for ICE, it's also marginalized people who are being bribed with healthcare and a livable wage - things that…
 • Rebecca Woolf
creative women are becoming increasingly dangerous to men who have historically gotten away with being shitty
on Lily Allen, David Harbour, and "Vogue World" as the perfect distraction for Hollywood's blatant muzzling of women's voices and our stories.
 • Rebecca Woolf
choosing the ache for more over the acceptance of less
on love, limerence and no longer martyring oneself on the altar of convention
 • Rebecca Woolf and Mindy Walder
"an insecure man will punish you for loving him"
on Nicole Kidman, the infantilization of boyfriends and marrying men who will grow to hate you for being out of their league
 • Rebecca Woolf
the dichotomy of attraction
Demanding partner #1 relinquish their autonomy in order to coddle partner #2's insecurities is not “setting boundaries"
 • Rebecca Woolf
what is consent to a ghost
a critique (and vindication) on my own gaze and an invitation for you to center yours
 • Rebecca Woolf
our obsession with aesthetics has made us boring and unsocial. (death to the mood board! long live the house party!)
cultivating community requires a living room, an open door and a pile of dishes in the sink you'll get to later. (and several tangents before I get to…
 • Rebecca Woolf
first love is a haunted house
and this is a ghost story
 • Rebecca Woolf
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