Adeline Levescot
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Likes strong coffee and weak jokes. Feminist. Feels weird talking about herself in the third person. She/her.
Cape Town, RSA
Joined April 2009
This is the entirety of my contribution to the RWC final discourse
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Handré Pollard implies the existence of Footré Pollard
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Not my mother walking behind me and giving me a kiss on the top of my head while I’m on a leadership VC 😫
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One painting from every year of the 20th century, in chronological order. 1900: Sunbeams by Vilhelm Hammershøi 1/100
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Note to self, no more listening to Renaissance when doing groceries. Unconsciously singing “she gon’ shake that ass and them pretty tig ol’ bitties” near random shoppers will not make you any friends.
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No those are my emotional support 50 identical photos of my cat doing something cute
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Welp, it’s finally happened. I’ve reached the point in my life where when I see ‘ELO’ I think Eye Level Oven and not Electric Light Orchestra.
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PSA: running Comrades? I’m seconding my mom and happy to hold snacks or spare gear for you at a few points along the route if the timing lines up. (Comes with words of encouragement and/or a dad joke.) Slide into my DMs if you or someone you know would appreciate it!
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If my trainer said “Ohhh big stretchy!” to me when I stretched, like I do to my cats, I’m pretty sure I’d be more motivated to work out.
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Let’s not pretend that what’s happening is new. We’re just more inclined to make a noise about it because we suddenly can’t white privilege our way out of something 🙃
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Reducing what’s going on to a pop culture soundbite ignores the decades (if not centuries) of experimentation, eugenics, forced sterilisation etc visited on BIPOC bodies.
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Everyone is trotting this line out without an ounce of critical thinking. Handmaid’s Tale was based on things that have *already happened*/are happening in this sorry planet’s history, disproportionately to women of colour.
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