Summer Brennan
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Award-winning writer & Orion Book Award finalist. THE OYSTER WAR; HIGH HEEL. Next: THE PARISIAN SPHINX @MarinerBooks . Leonard Cohen blew me a kiss one time.
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I'm thrilled to have a new essay out in
@JoylandMagazine
today! It's about the painter Berthe Morisot.
Many thanks to
@chayab77
who guided this essay toward what it is.
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Being a woman means being too young for everything until suddenly you are too old for everything, with at least ten years in between when you are simultaneously too young AND too old.
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As a woman, I feel there are only two medical experiences
"jesus you're dying, why didn't you come in sooner"
and
"why are you wasting our time with this?"
for the same symptoms
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So let me see if I've got this right. We belittle and berate women for not having kids, but professionally, financially, and socially punish women who do have them?
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If you ever got an actual physical mix tape from someone who was in love with you, you're Gen X.
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Anyone having their last day at the IRS?
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just so we're clear, a MAGA hat is the klan hood of the 21st century
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The missing hikers in Point Reyes were found after EIGHT days by a rescue dog named Groot and I need to know if this is the dog because look at him
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Can you please just start saying "adults under 40" for "Millennials" because that is now literally what it means. Then see if your thing sounds silly.
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Dolly Parton and her husband Carl when they first met, c. 1964
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I don't often swear on Twitter, but um, fuck off. This is seriously a video telling the former U.S. Secretary of State to take up knitting.
Maybe it's time for Hillary Clinton to take up a new hobby in 2018
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Would like it if press stopped referring to bigots as "provocateurs," like they're Madonna in a cone bra in 1990 instead of fans of the KKK.
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Oh yeah as an underemployed writer, I'm totally fine with losing a 90K-person platform built up over thirteen years, when I am otherwise not remotely famous, why do you ask?
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Men: read a nonfiction book by a woman and tweet the cover challenge 2023.
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Lesser known fact: in Ovid, Medusa was a rape victim, and was transformed by Athena after the goddess of war witnessed her being raped by Poseidon in one of her temples. So. Was her transformation a punishment, or was she being armed?
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I made myself sick with stress over an email for a very long time and when I finally opened it, all it said was "okay thanks."
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.
@JulianCastro
's comments about people besides women who can get pregnant caused my 72-year-old dad to ask what that meant, and then we had a positive conversation about trans and nonbinary gender identities. Putting these ideas into the public conversation matters.
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Don't act like there's not an ideological connection between the men talking about "redistributing sex" because its owed to them and the young men shooting up their schools because a girl they are fixated on has rejected them.
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The concept behind 'Believe Women' is not that every woman is always telling the truth. Rather it's an acknowledgement that society has often proceeded from the assumption that women are automatically not credible, and seeks to remedy that. It is a call to begin with credibility.
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Outlawing and penalizing pregnancy termination care does two things few people talk about. One, it criminalizes miscarriage, a common occurrence, but it also designates all women as legally pre-pregnant at all times, since medically, pregnancy begins two weeks before conception.
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WE DID IT! THEY ARE TRANSFERRING HIM TO PROPER CARE THANK YOU 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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When you're a person who generally means well, it can sometimes be easy to forget how many people out there absolutely do not mean well at all.
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Women were refused credit cards without a husband's approval until 1974.
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America may easily be the stupidest country in the world
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"So why are you single?"
*gestures vaguely at humanity*
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Being a woman trying to do things is so depressing sometimes. No one hears you unless you shout, but then you're that girl who's shouting.
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My Covid-19 experience so far:
wk 1: maybe it won't be too bad?
wk 2-4: in and out of hospital, trying to not die
wk 5-7: bedridden at home
wk 8-9: up and down, trying to recover
wk 10: start to resume normal activities, with lingering mild symptoms
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After I got out of the hospital, my doctor wrote me a prescription for N95 masks so that the pharmacy would sell them to me. I'm not even well enough to go out yet so it doesn't matter, but don't make any assumptions about people you see out in masks. You don't know.
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essay collection, narrative nonfiction, literary fiction, beach read
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Remember when you were calling reps? Remember how it was this overwhelming wave reported on in media? Don't stop. That wave was you.
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Voting is not getting married. You don't have to wait for "the one." It's a turn in the road. You're picking a direction to move in.
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Kevin Bacon is on my flight. Which means that right now there are zero degrees of separation between me and Kevin Bacon.
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Watching people not follow directions when a dinosaur is loose in Jurassic Park 4 is a lot more believable now after Covid.
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At some point in your late 30s, or perhaps after 40, you stop feeling like the oldest young person and start feeling like the youngest old person, and it's kind of a nice change.
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I genuinely hate this person and we interacted for less than 30 seconds.
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America right now: "My husband Earl got drunk last night and didn't even yell when he beat me, I think he's really changed this time."
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Do you want to tell the GOP where babies come from, or should I?
WOW. The
#GOP
’s reason to object to insurance covering prenatal care? “Why should men pay for it?” Watch:
#Trumpcare
#ProtectOurCare
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Kind of shocked by the amount of people who are advocating not tipping. Sorry but you're all monsters/have never worked 12 hours a day on your feet in a restaurant for $80 in tips and no salary while getting disrespected and groped.
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I'm so sorry I know this is so irrelevant and probably counterproductive but can we discuss the bangin' denim choices of
@ewarren
circa 1979? I want these jeans.
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Here's a little story: 13 years ago, I became fascinated by & started researching this artist's model from the 19th century. This is her:
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In another universe, Hillary is president-elect and we're all fighting about a NYT recipe that says to put peas in pumpkin pie.
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Not trying to cancel this guy, we're all having a hard time and this is just one second in this family's life. But the article was a lot. Guys, help out your partners with the kids. It's okay if you sleep less, you can do it.
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I have a number of art pet peeves, but one of them is that most modern people assume Grant Wood's painting 'American Gothic' depicts a married couple. Look at it! It's a father and daughter. She's too young. So often we don't really see or think about the women depicted in art.
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I am not going to lie, this makes me a little nervous about Facebook's trustworthiness going into this election.
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This holiday season, the best way to buy books as gifts, in order:
1 Your local indie bookstore
2 Other local indie bookstore
3 Straight from the publisher's website
4 Barnes&Noble or similar
5 Indiebound, Powells, etc.
6 Find on the street
7 Direct from Satan
8 Amazon
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Reporter writes story about abusive Sanders staffer. Staffer is fired. Sanders supporters dox reporter.
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It's Thursday night, January 19th 2017, and Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. My president is black.
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Please tell me your thing that got cancelled that you are sad about, no matter how small.
Even the loss of relatively small things in this still totally sucks.
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Me at 13: The Phantom of the Opera! So doomed, so romantic!
Me now: This is a musical about an incel.
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Soooo, this is interesting. As you know I started this series, Book of the Courtesans. Now Daily Mail has written about it, but not about the fact that I'm the one doing this all new research? I am not just "translating" the entries. This is MY research.
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Reminder that anyone running for president is *a politician*, not your mom, your dad, your savior, a saint, a messiah, a preacher or an entertainer. They will have messed up and they will mess up. Pick the best one anyway.
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Whatever you think of Hillary Rodham Clinton, a woman who has dedicated her entire adult life to politics for better and worse, this is just extremely sexist.
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A couple got on this flight with twin babies and did and said absolutely nothing to "make up for it," as it should be, because we are all adults here and know that babies exist and have to go places too.
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Pretty freaked out by how many "progressive" men still think a woman earning money in her field is suspect.
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Thousands of women all over the world have just had their long-awaited and sometimes last ditch effort IVF treatments cancelled indefinitely.
Just something to consider before you start making presumptions about the easy lives of people who don't have kids right now.
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The difference between France and the US as told through a pharmacy visit:
Me: Is this cold medicine for nighttime or daytime?
Pharmacist: You can take it at any time, day or night.
Me: Oh okay.
Pharmacist: But it will make you go to sleep.
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Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary people are non-binary. Gender non-conforming people can be whatever, they don't conform. History tells us we have always been this way. To ignore this causes pain and costs precious lives.
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I wrote this response to a college friend on why I support Warren over Sanders for the presidency right now. A few people asked if they could share it, so I'm posting it here.
There are other factors, of course, but this is the heart of it:
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Single? Sad. Married? Boring. Ambitious career? Selfish. Stay-at-home mom? Irrelevant. Don't have kids? Pathetic. Have kids? What a dork.
Quiet? Weak. Loud? Scary. Meticulous? Over prepared. Vague? Unqualified.
How long are we going to keep playing this game?
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Comey could have picked a snappier outfit.
This is irrelevant but for the sake of gender balance in the world I figured I'd toss that out.
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Guys, Bernie is the most popular politician with his own Vermont constituents, not the whole country. Stop misusing this data point.
Listen carefully, Democrats, the most unpopular politician in America is telling you how to deal w/ the most popular politician in America.
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This is Summer's husband, she is ok. She is too sick with Covid-19 to tweet right now, but is getting medical attention and is in stable condition. She says thank you for the well wishes and please stay home.
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Roseanne will not be arrested for making a racist remark. However, anyone, including her employer, can choose not to associate with, hire, watch, or give money to her based on her beliefs and personality. There isn't a free speech discussion to be had here. Hate has consequences.
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The power of this image is the prevalence of what it depicts, not so much this particular family as individuals. Focusing just on this one guy is really not the point.
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I said recently that 90% of that elusive "French girl" look that Americans love to write about is actually universal healthcare, and I mean this literally.
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There's room for refugees in America, geographically, socially, administratively & economically. Only bigotry keeps them out.
#SyriaStrikes
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I love screenwriters but has any real person ever thrown water on their face in a public restroom and then gazed in the mirror to calm down?
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The arc of the moral universe will only bend if enough people grab hold of it and pull as hard as they can.
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"Female" and "millennial" audiences...so, all women aged about 20 to about 40...are in direct juxtaposition to what's relevant to a "national publication."
The implication here is troubling to say the least.
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Hilary inspired millions of women, but women aren't really people, so they didn't count. She was "the worst candidate ever." Sure whatever.
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A cat wrote this.
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This "say Merry Christmas again" nonsense is a prime example of a dominant group viewing any gesture towards equality as its own oppression.
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GOOD NEWS! Yes this is the second time this is happening, but I get to leave hospital today, which is Day 28 of the Covid battle—recovered & now testing negative for the virus.
I'm going back in for another minor preventative heart procedure soon, but for now I'll be at home 🥰
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@dopaminediscord
@Calebkeeter
An important point he realized, I think, is this experienced shattered the sad myth he held that more guns could prevent/help these attacks.
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Putin. Is. Hitting. Every. Major. NATO. Power. Right. Before. Elections. On. Purpose. It. Is. Not. A. Casual. Thing.
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I don't care what the laws about 1700s guns were, but also...
"well regulated."
Well. Regulated.
WELL REGULATED
w e l l r e g u l a t e d
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You're not special if I block you. I block everyone who annoys me. Everyone. I block people because I see them being annoying to people I don't even know. Zero strikes you're out.
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Family portrait in 2019:
Me: Undecided
Husband: Castro
Mom: Harris
Step-Dad: Bernie
Brother: Yang
In-law: Trump
In 2020:
Me: Warren
Husband: Warren
Mom: Warren
Step-Dad: Warren
Brother: Warren
In-law: Maybe Warren if Castro is on board (people are complicated)
#UnityCandidate
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Basically, a woman's life is just like 80+ years of everyone telling you why it's your fault that you can't be taken seriously, ever, and every life choice you make is wrong.
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We had about thirty phone numbers just...memorized.
What’s the most random thing from the 80s or 90s you can’t really describe to kids today cuz it just wouldn’t make sense?
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I'm sorry to do this. We are fighting to save my father. He was left without care for days due to a medical system overloaded by Covid patients. Please share or help if you can. I know so many are suffering right now, we're just trying to get through this
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I'm still fascinated by how little a woman needs to mention herself in nonfiction writing for it to get classified as "memoir" or "personal essay."
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let's save the post office and write each other love letters
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"Warren has an almost supernatural ability to identify problems before anyone else, and to work relentlessly to solve them."
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So the election is one month away. I am voting absentee for Biden/Harris, and then democrats all the way down.
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Hi, I am out of the hospital and recovering from Covid-19 in Paris. Still very sick and won't be checking messages for a little while, but I'm so grateful for the support. Please be kind, stay safe, and I'll see you when I'm well. 💙💙💙
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"Pre-existing condition" is not a thing. It is a propaganda myth.
You pre-exist. It's called being alive.
You are not a car.
You are not a house.
You are not a thing.
You are priceless.
You do not depreciate.
There is no stasis.
There is no life without illness.
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Trump administration looking to revoke citizenship from naturalized citizens: USCIS is Starting a Denaturalization Task Force
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"Women's empowerment" does not mean assuming all women have the same qualities and virtues simply because they are women. That's misogyny.
There is no one more qualified to be the first woman to lead the CIA than 30+ year CIA veteran Gina Haspel. Any Democrat who claims to support women’s empowerment and our national security but opposes her nomination is a total hypocrite
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this owl
standing around like a little man, bidding you a good morrow sir
who said owls could just put pants on and hang out like this with a pipe in their pocket
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Why are there so few bakeries in the US? Shouldn't there be one on every block? Where are the bakeries?
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There's something wrong when a candidate's public success depends on huge numbers of women being afraid to criticize him in public.
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People don't survive Covid or not based on how tough or how much of a fighter they are or aren't.
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What I'm seeing right now online is that the women complain of misogyny and men rush in to silence and control them.
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Women: We were considered property like a century ago.
Men: Yeah well, a woman laughed at my shoes that one time.
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