Notices by Moira Donegan (moiradonegan@bird.makeup)

I wrote about the election as a contest between gendered status anxieties, with Trump trying to capitalize off men’s resentment at women’s rise over the past few decades, and women angry at the rollback of their rights over the past few years. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/02/this-tight-race-is-in-part-about-sexist-backlash-but-feminists-can-lash-back-too?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=edit_2221&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1730541894

It’s an old point but publicizing a professed fantasy of leaving the public world and punishing & rejecting feminists has become a ticket to publicity and professional advancement for the right’s most ambitious women.

https://bird.makeup/@irin/1852693682903822732

Being a feminist in this moment often feels like conducting a kind of remedial education. I’m newly aware of how fragile and conditional women’s gains are, how easily they can be lost. Some of them already have.

Happy Women’s Equality Day. It’s a dark time to be a feminist. The gains of the Second Wave have come under attack: it’s newly contested whether women belong in public life, whether our bodies are our destinies, whether the prerogatives of adult life are women’s prerogatives.