i was just telling a friend that i wanted to read a piece about the cycle-syncing stuff and the way it smuggles anti-feminist, gender essentialist talking points into the discourse, and then this showed up in my feed.
this is so excellent, thank you for this. the way it was kind of accepted in the beginning of the co-star era that you could dismiss criticism of astrology and the belief systems we derive from this specific kind of divine feminine spiritual scene as “attacking women’s interests” i think got us to this boom cycle of girl-coded essentialist mumbo jumbo. afraid the girlies who would benefit most from your very careful thoughtful writing are sadly not reading things longer than video captions
Came across this on twitter the other day - really loved reading it :-). I’m actually doing my PhD on period tracking and other “FemTech” practices. I find work like this is always ahead of the curve on new cultural trends before formal academia. I particularly loved the term “Dissociative feminism”, did you coin that yourself? I’d love to reference it in some future work, if so!
Came to your essay after a young friend posted some of this “divine bullshit”. Sadly I had to scroll quite a way down past the plethora of postings peddling this crap. As a 66yr old woman I find this trend disheartening, disturbing and scary as hell.
Thank you for this! Subscribed!
thank you!
i was just telling a friend that i wanted to read a piece about the cycle-syncing stuff and the way it smuggles anti-feminist, gender essentialist talking points into the discourse, and then this showed up in my feed.
this is so excellent, thank you for this. the way it was kind of accepted in the beginning of the co-star era that you could dismiss criticism of astrology and the belief systems we derive from this specific kind of divine feminine spiritual scene as “attacking women’s interests” i think got us to this boom cycle of girl-coded essentialist mumbo jumbo. afraid the girlies who would benefit most from your very careful thoughtful writing are sadly not reading things longer than video captions
thank you! and i shall be stealing your phrase 'girl-coded essentialist mumbo jumbo', because isn't that just it...
This is a really great essay !!
Came across this on twitter the other day - really loved reading it :-). I’m actually doing my PhD on period tracking and other “FemTech” practices. I find work like this is always ahead of the curve on new cultural trends before formal academia. I particularly loved the term “Dissociative feminism”, did you coin that yourself? I’d love to reference it in some future work, if so!
thank you Sara! your PhD study sounds fascinating. and no, I didn’t (though I wish I did!). dissociative feminism was coined by writer Emmeline Clein, probably in this 2019 article https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmelineclein/dissociation-feminism-women-fleabag-twitter
Great read! Thanks for sharing.
Came to your essay after a young friend posted some of this “divine bullshit”. Sadly I had to scroll quite a way down past the plethora of postings peddling this crap. As a 66yr old woman I find this trend disheartening, disturbing and scary as hell.
glad / saddened to hear from someone in a different age group that this resonated with you - thank you for reading! X
damn i hate writing an article about divine feminine & then discovering someone wrote a better one a year before me....good stuff, man!
always more to say! but thank you ❤️