1/23/22 - Thoughts after 49th anniversary of Roe v Wade

Here is the link to my January 23, 2022, Twitter thread reflecting on my own life, following news articles I'd read about the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy.

9/20/20 review of Kimberly Hamlin article on age of consent laws

Here is the link to my September 20, 2020, Twitter thread reaction to Kimberly Hamlin's Smithsonian Magazine article "What Raising the Age of Consent Taught Women About the Vote."

In this article, from as recent as August of 2020, Hamlin literally becomes the only person other than myself (sorry, but this is true), and the only authority on this subject, to discuss the connection between age of consent laws and sex work laws.

However, Hamlin makes this connection and her argument for purposes of further conservatizing sex laws -- including sex work laws.

This really highlighted for me how important it is for sex work decriminalization to recognize this historical connection between sex work laws and age of consent laws, before conservative authorities take and rewrite this history -- in favor both of high age of consent laws, the continued criminalization and stigmatization of sex work, and the continued vicious cycle of sex paranoia in the United States.

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1/19/19 review of the 2019 Womxn's March on Colorado

Here is the link to my January 19, 2019, Twitter thread review of the 2019 Womxn's March on Colorado.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still moderately coherent. My apologies.

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy.

1/20/18 thread of videos from 2018 Women's March on Colorado

Here is a link to a Twitter thread I did giving links to videos I took while at the 2018 Women's March on Colorado.

The thread includes videos of the band Alive on Arrival, singers Rajdulari and SuCh, singer Emelise Munoz, and Bella Diva Dance.

1/20/18 review of 2018 Women's March on Colorado

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the 2018 Women's March on Colorado.

The thread gives some background on the march. It discusses the march's theme. It mentions the Native American women who were centered for the march. It discusses and gives photos of presentations by Karen Roberts Grissom, Candi CdeBaca, Chante Okic Ouye Wiya, Kim Desmond, Reverend Nancy Rojas, 100 Women in Black, Lauren Casteel, Kerrie Joy, Karmen Carter, and Faith Winter. The thread also gives a lot of photos from the march.

Some of my Twitter threads have been twisted out of chronological order by Twitter's platform. This thread's coherency suffers as a result. My apologies. However, the tweets address themes from the march that were really interesting. And they show tons of great pictures. So the thread is worth a read.

1/10/16 review of documentary Codegirl, dir. by Lesley Chilcott

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the documentary Codegirl, directed by Lesley Chilcott.

The thread gives some background on the documentary and its subject, the Technovation challenge. It gives a couple of themes from the film. It also discusses some of my favorite teams and individuals in the Technovation challenge. It also discusses what I wish the documentary would have shown more of.

Here is a link to the website for Codegirl.

I actually saw this film at Denver South High School. The school did the film screening as a community event. I thought that was really cool.

1/3/16 review of the film Suffragette, dir. by Sarah Gavron

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Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the film Suffragette, directed by Sarah Gavron.

The thread gives a few points of the film that I liked. It also discusses some of the performances I liked. It also discusses some questions I think the film asks us to think about today... probably, I'll be honest, more so in 2019 than in 2015 and 2016.

Here is the link to Film4's web page for Suffragette.

I saw this film at the Denver Film Society's Sie FilmCenter in Denver, Colorado.

3/22/15 review of documentary She's Beautiful When She's Angry

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the documentary She's Beautiful When She's Angry, directed by Mary Dore.

She's Beautiful When She's Angry tells the story of the feminist movement during the 1960s and 1970s. My Twitter thread discusses the structure of the documentary; lists some of the film's themes; talks about some of the new things I learned from the film.

1/12/15 review of the book Birth of the Pill, by Jonathan Eig

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of The Birth of the Pill, by Jonathan Eig.

My Twitter thread review sees The Birth of the Pill, the story of the invention of the birth control pill, as a story of scientific teamwork. It discusses the importance of the pill to women's rights. It discusses some key figures in the work. It discusses some of the book's interesting biological and engineering insights. And it points to some other interesting works worth reading.

Here is a link to Jonathan Eig's book The Birth of the Pill, on the W.W. Norton website.

Also, I bought this book from the Tattered Cover Book Store, a bookstore chain in the Denver metro area.