Illustrator, photographer, web geek, unrepentant X-Phile, wife, proud mama. Front-end Something-or-other @automattic. She/her.
Maine
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Oh hi, I'm Caroline! And I'm late. But I like to doodle, design, and code. #VisibleWomen
From Portland to Presque Isle, Bangor to Bar Harbor, Lewiston to Machias, Maine voters come from every background and every corner of the state. Join them and get registered today. app.sosha.ai/s/ENKAuXcC
Stephen Colbert gets it; Mainers have moxie we're tough and we show up for each other when it counts. This June turnout was so high some towns ran out of ballots. Let's keep that energy up, come together and vote this November.
Repost from @maineinmymind
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Is being gender-fluid “new”? Ha! Indigenous people have been rejecting binaries for millennia, and they’d like your colonialism off their bodies.
🧵🔧 Welcome to the Nonbinary Issue, a rich tapestry that defies categorization.
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SO HE THINKS HIS SISTER WAS ABDUCTED BY ALIENS WHEN THEY WERE KIDS, WHICH IS THE REASON HE STARTED INVESTIGATING THE X-FILES, BUT ACTUALLY IT WAS CABAL OF MEN, INCLUDING HIS FATHER, WITHIN THE GOVERNMENT WORKING WITH ALIENS, WHOSE MEMBERS EACH HAD TO SACRIFICE A CHILD AS COLLATE-
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you: want to be paid fairly to write
we: want to pay you
pipe wrench will continue to exist in 2023! maybe you'll write one of our features.
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You absolutely should not have to tell your boss at Dick’s Sporting Goods that you need an abortion
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🚨PLEASE SHARE🚨
Do you live in a state that bans abortions? With the help of mail-forwarding, you can still get safe, effective abortion pills from a doctor in days.
RT this thread to spread the word—so the people who need help learn how they can get it:
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Ten violent threats were reported in Maine schools over the last 30 days, with four of them occurring within the last week. newscentermaine.com/article/…
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"The only escapes that fat people are offered from a micromanaging, soul-draining existence are weight loss or death." @marquisele @rachelleabellar @pipewrenchmag pipewrenchmag.com/dismantlin… #longreads
Pipe Wrench is out! The Fat issue addresses a topic near and dear to my heart; so near that I wrote a thing! Huge thanks to @michelleinchief for her encouragement and guidance. Please read the whole dang issue.
It starts young: “I think about the time I used the f-word in front of your pediatrician and she looked at me, horrified as if I’d said ‘fuck instead of fat.’”
@sixhours writes a letter to her daughter:
pipewrenchmag.com/letter-fro…
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“My chief reason for attending divinity school was to find evidence that the beloved, patriarchal legalist in my life would consider proof of my right to wear pants.”
Breai wants to know why women’s bodies are responsible for men’s actions: pipewrenchmag.com/breai-maso…
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“I still wonder why an adult in his thirties would choose to spend several hours a week coaching baton and dance. But mostly, I still wonder why he got so upset the day I brought four hard-boiled eggs to practice.” @SaraJBenincasa:
pipewrenchmag.com/you-are-no…
ALT Brown eggs in a cardboard carton. The eggs have faces drawn on them — one seems happy, but one is pissed of and another is definitely hella confused.
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Which is why “[i]t matters for fat people to be the ones writing about fatness.” @rachel_e_fox has a reading list for you, whether you’re just starting to learn more, or deepening your fat activism.
pipewrenchmag.com/fat-studie…
Caroline Moore retweeted
“be sure to include the pounds contributed
by everyone who made my rolls
into the hill they were willing to die on”
@rachielouwho
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ALT A redacted poem, made by blacking out words of Cass Elliot's obituary. It now reads: Miss Elliot was best known to the general public as large. Miss Elliot sand and served beauty. Miss Elliot did bring widespread joy."
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In the end, complications become inevitable. “Fat people are unhealthy” is a self-fulfilling prophecy because fat people get terrible healthcare, and then public health researchers blame us for it.” @fattyMPH:
pipewrenchmag.com/public-hea…
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As are the ways we ration care, like gender-affirming surgery. "He suggested bariatric surgery, a more invasive procedure for which finding an anesthetist is apparently not a problem." @katta_spiel:
pipewrenchmag.com/in-the-wai…