Red Memo

Writer. Reader. Cooker. Eater. HBO acolyte. Traveler. Mouthy cynic sitting in the back. Raging Feminist. She/her

[Red Memo @RachelRedfern2]

@theblkrecluse Do you have any information about what aid groups or community aid groups are delivering supplies to these areas?

[Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation @OKWildlifeDept]

Please stop dming the government at 1am.

[fooler initiative @metroadlib]

I LITERALLY stopped working on my memo so I could read this indictment.

I am on page 24 and JESUS LUPITA NYONG'O CHRIST.

HOW this man still has the capacity to shock me after everything that's happened, i'll never know.

but I am sitting here *STUNNED*.

[AskAubry 🦋 🐆🦝 @ask_aubry]

This is what LinkedIn is like now. 😒

[Red Memo @RachelRedfern2]

Sooooo, I was offered admission to @futurescapes 10k (100 pages) writing workshop this August! Feeling excited, creative and mildly nervous.

#WritingCommmunity #WritingLife #amwriting

[Red Memo @RachelRedfern2]

@wallywelles @ask_aubry I hate how 100 years later these are all still true.

[Red Memo @RachelRedfern2]

@SheRatesDogs Am I missing something about the dead fish thing? Is that a euphemism? I don’t understand! 😭😭

[Red Memo @RachelRedfern2]

@ookeyspook Yes! I’m so glad others recognized them. Northern Exposure was such a brilliant series.

[Red Memo @RachelRedfern2]

@deannaraybourn @BrennanML THIS. I haven’t worn a real bra since 2020.

[Red Memo @RachelRedfern2]

In 1854-55 Lucy Coleman and Susan B. Anthony spoke about the unfairness of the gender pay gap between male and female teachers. Today, 168 years later, we are still fighting for this shit.

#feminism

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

since some folks seem to be confused: people who try to ban books from libraries and classrooms are the bad guys. they are always the bad guys.

[🌽🦆 Will Eidam 🦆🌽 @CornFedDuck]

Official wedding invites have been sent out, so can now finally share to the public.

Allison: Can we do our wedding invites like a romance novel?

Me: As you wish.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Despite public outcry, the Florida Highschool Athletics Association is standing by its decision that girls submit menstruation information to schools: including age of their first period, how many days are typically in between their periods, & the date of their last period. 🤯

[your other mom @difficultpatty]

I never do these, but story time: I was polite to a dude at a salsa bar at a restaurant 3 months ago. He asked where I was from and what I did for work and I told him. He was familiar with the city I live in and asked which school I taught at, so I mentioned the name.

[feminist next door @emrazz]

WOMAN: Misogyny is common

MAN: I never see misogyny

WOMAN: ok let me point it out

MAN: If true I will punch it

WOMAN: there’s some over there

MAN: shh stop drawing attention to it

WOMAN: but you sai—

MAN: pretend it doesn’t exist

WOMAN: but I—

MAN: see you’re causing it

[feminist next door @emrazz]

Took him ten years and two children before he was willing to believe that his wife “had the capacity for reason.”

[Steve Krenzel @stevekrenzel]

With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter.

🧵

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

Moira is one of the smartest feminists writing today and this piece is a really fucking good reminder of that

https://t.co/xuQh3EdiCg

[Red Memo @RachelRedfern2]

@JessicaValenti Oh god, I literally read the article yesterday and remember reading the comments and being absolutely horrified.

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

I shared these images on TikTok and people are losing their minds insisting that it's a lie - it's wild how indoctrinated people are about abortion https://t.co/yUqPIZSxFA