We don't ask women enough about their experiences, so I'm releasing a number of new surveys in the coming weeks. The first is on medical misogyny and racism, and is for women and woman-identified folks. Take it here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/JW3DWP6 Prior surveys here: zawn.substack.com/t/surveys

I'm surveying women about their experiences in relationships with men. I hope you'll continue taking the survey. I will share the results in about a month: www.surveymonkey.com/r/N6J2N68 You can read the results of some of my past surveys here: zawn.substack.com/t/surveys

One of the main reasons the Second Amendment exists is because the founding fathers envisioned a world where the military could not be deployed against civilians. Not one where the majority of gun-toting fools would gladly swallow whole the boot of any soldier.

Just a PSA that books on Princeton University Press's website are 50% off with the code Bloom50. And their books are already incredibly cheap.

Being disliked by bad people is a compliment. Take the compliment. We must be willing to be disliked if we are going to stand up for others.

Once I realized how heavily men's hatred of women influences their opinions of us, I no longer cared what they thought of me. It's been the best gift I could give to myself. zawn.substack.com/p/how-to-dec...

No. And if they are, that's an argument in favor of avoiding men--not tolerating bullshit. zawn.substack.com/p/are-men-bi...

The number of times a day that I talk to the animals in my house and then ask them why they're not answering me is definitely not zero.

The more aggressively patriarchy--and the misogynistic men it creates--insists something is true, the more likely it is to be false. We see this, for example, in propaganda about lonely single women, the wall, women "needing" men or marriage, and most men being nice and safe.

Patriarchy needs to depict women as incompetent, even when the evidence is overwhelming that they are not. zawn.substack.com/p/women-are-...

It's not that you communicate badly. It's that he wants things to be exploitative. zawn.substack.com/p/just-commu...

You can change your mind about your relationship at any time. A relationship should not be a punishment for prior bad choices. zawn.substack.com/p/i-accepted...

Naomi Fisher's work fundamentally changed my parenting, and helped my thrive after trauma. It was such an honor to interview her on my podcast. zawn.substack.com/p/treating-c...

Patriarchy insists that, above all else, women must be nice. Because being nice to men—tolerating their abuse, giving them the benefit of the doubt, giving them more of our time and everything else than is fair—makes it easier for them to oppress us. zawn.substack.com/p/why-men-di...

He didn't actually change. He refused to change, to accommodate you or the child, or to act like parenthood matters. zawn.substack.com/p/why-did-my...

When we focus on who has it worse, who is worse to the other, or otherwise demonize other women, we distract ourselves from fighting our common enemy: patriarchy, which oppresses us all. And that's exactly what patriarchy wants. It can't win if we aren't complicit. zawn.substack.com/p/how-patria...

I got to have the amazing Beth Berry on the Liberating Motherhood podcast. We talked about a little bit of everything. I hope you love the episode: zawn.substack.com/p/revolution...

Boys will be whatever society excuses with gender binary misogynist bullshit. Maybe not as snappy as "boys will be boys" but at least it's true.

I was in my thirties before I learned you can solve 80% of cold symptoms with Afrin, Tylenol, cough drops, and using tissues instead of paper towels. This may be the most useful information I have to offer.

Last summer, my spider friend laid an egg sac on my vanda orchid, which I then moved inside for the winter. Today I moved it back outside and the babies began to hatch as I moved it. How lucky I am to live in this wonderful, broken, stupid, awful, beautiful world where spiders sometimes choose me.

This month's paid bonus podcast is live! zawn.substack.com/p/the-patria...

@grace-woodill.bsky.social LET’S MAKE THIS VIRAL!!! Thank you grace for sharing this.

So many men who look like moldy feet think it's perfectly reasonable to tell women how ugly & unworthy they are. And patriarchy convinces women to not only marry but stay married to these losers, who bring nothing to the table but a job they'd have to have anyway. Patriarchy is the ultimate scam.

I never thought I would hear the term "poop flakes" so often, from so many women. zawn.substack.com/p/why-do-so-...

"Feminist" men should be held to a higher standard than other men, not a lower one. I keep seeing women ask if we should trust these men or give them the benefit of the doubt. My answer: Yes, only if we want dangerous men to use feminism as a way to gain access to women they can harm.

Women feminists do all the things male feminists do, but better, while also living life as a woman in a patriarchal society, facing all the threat and terror that entails. They also do this without the acclaim and elevation male feminists routinely enjoy, without being labeled special & brilliant.

Republicans call their legislators much more than those on the left. They flood the phones, creating the illusion that the country swings much more to the right than it does. Their willingness to keep calling also shows their representatives they are committed. We must match their discipline.

I think most men would be shocked to learn how much whining we have to listen to from men everyday. And how much time that whining eats up. zawn.substack.com/p/why-do-so-...