
Illustrator, photographer, web geek, unrepentant X-Phile, wife, proud mama. Front-end Something-or-other @automattic. She/her.
Maine
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Caroline Moore retweeted
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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Caroline Moore retweeted
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-
Caroline Moore retweeted
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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Caroline Moore retweeted
You absolutely should not have to tell your boss at Dick’s Sporting Goods that you need an abortion
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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:
Caroline Moore retweeted
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/…
Caroline Moore retweeted
"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
Caroline Moore retweeted
“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…
Caroline Moore retweeted
“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:
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Caroline Moore retweeted
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.
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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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Caroline Moore retweeted
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:
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Caroline Moore retweeted
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:
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Caroline Moore retweeted
The ways we try to part fat people from their money and energy are truly staggering: pipewrenchmag.com/brief-hist…

ALT A 1980s magazine ad for Metrecal diet shakes featuring a photo of a plate containing a pool of pink liquid that is presumably Metrecal, and the text "The Metrecal steak." Yup, totally the same thing.

ALT A 1940s advertising card showing a young, white, blond woman standing on a set of pale blue bathroom scales against a black background, looking pleased with what they tell her. 1940 Medically approved Bile Beans : taken regularly at bedtime keep you healthy, happy. We assume the Bile Bean manufacturer chose to save some money by not focus group-ing the name of the product.
Caroline Moore retweeted
To wit: “It wasn’t technically a “fat camp,” it was a “wellness clinic.” But no matter what it was called, I was starving” @fatfabfeminist:
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Caroline Moore retweeted
“Fat as death sentence” isn’t hyperbole: “It was never a calculated number concluded from their own intense research; it was a scientific guess made with the hope to punish fat people for their bodies. And it worked.”
Excerpts from @dashaunlh: pipewrenchmag.com/belly-of-t…
Caroline Moore retweeted
“if i look good, it is because i am. if i look good, well, grief does wonders for the skin. in my death sentence body i still believe i know joy.”
Sometimes the best way to express the joy and pain is poetry. @CaveCanem winner @YesAurielle:
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Caroline Moore retweeted
No, even earlier: “How can I trust that I’ll be safe as a fat Black pregnant person who is not famous? I’m afraid.” @ChefFresh82
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Caroline Moore retweeted
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…
Caroline Moore retweeted
Case in point: “True or False: Patients undergoing chemotherapy are buoyed when you tell them their weight loss is a silver lining of cancer treatment.”
Our own @michelleinchief has a pop quiz for you:
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