Anna Curran

Creative consciousness in motion.

[L., MA @leslieleeiii]

Not only did we never achieve herd immunity for COVID we're now losing herd immunity for other viruses. That means even vaccinated people won't be safe.

[Anna Curran @AnnaCurran]

@susanmcp1 Where’s the thumbs down? I’m so sorry that @aetna is denying a legitimate claim when you need to spend your energy resting and recuperating. Are there and angels at @AetnaHelp who can fix this ASAP. The world needs Susan well and not spending her precious time fighting this.

[Susan Spector McPherson @susanmcp1]

@Aetna just learned today that you denied coverage for my ER visit on Sunday, May 11th. My wound from my surgery on April 23rd opened up and my visiting nurse told me I had to get into the nearest hospital to have the wound sutured. This is insanity. What else should I have done?

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

So don't want to be the bearer of bad tidings: but DOGE canceled the lease on the facility that processes and stores all the nuclear waste created by the US military. Sorry. https://t.co/yYskCZ30dq

[Casey (she/her) @MamaSissieSays]

I just overheard someone say “I’m not voting for Kamala Harris because she is a woman, I’m voting for Kamala Harris because I AM a woman”

This needs to be said more.

[Nabil Ayers @nabilayers]

Thanks to everyone for sending me this amazing clip. Can’t wait to see the rest of the presidential record collection!

[Amy Sho @AmySho]

I am so excited to share the cover art for The Setback Cycle, which means pre-orders are here! Thanks to @reshmasaujani @Amy_K_Nelson @RobinNYC @cyrusveyssi @blessingdesiyan @AmandaMGoetz @susanmcp1 @AdamMGrant and others for sharing your stories and wisdom to make this possible.

[Benish (bee•nish) Shah @benishshah]

This question hit hard and close to home. "I have found, ...that there is nothing in this world that makes people more uncomfortable than a woman of color who is comfortable in her own skin." I hope it helps #toxic via @TheMuse
https://t.co/yCy8AHKTfZ

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

This is a side by side of two women gracing the front covers of two well known magazines.

The one on the right we all know is Martha Stewart, age 81. The one on the left is Apo Whang-Od, age 106, a tribal tattooist in a remote province in the Philippines.

There seems to be an unwritten rule which equates beauty with youngness. In an interview, Martha Stewart told the reporter she credits her organic, home-grown, farm-to-table eating, yoga, and actively healthy lifestyle to her youthfulness. While that’s an admirable journey for her, let’s not forget the amount of privilege that kind of lifestyle requires.

On the left is Apo Whang-Od, who is a 106-year-old tribal tattooist in the Philippines. The wisdom she carries in every forehead wrinkle and frown line is stunning. Her eyes are glass, reflecting back all that she’s witnessed over a century of lived experiences. Her tattoos a reminder of the ancestors she seeks to honor.

Both women are beautiful in their own right. But I wish we as women didn’t play into this idea that we have to look younger—and thinner—in order to fit some unrealistic beauty standard which will grant us acceptance and relevance in the world around us.

I’m writing this for any woman who, like me, may have had a punched-gut reaction to seeing an octogenarian in a swimsuit on the cover of a magazine looking more like a woman in her forties or fifties: Anti-aging is not a beauty standard.

There IS beauty in wrinkles, and saggy skin, and drooping breasts. These are markers of a life hard fought for and well lived. It seems odd to try and erase these battle scars.

So while I applaud Martha for her fortunate body, carefully curated procedures, and pristinely styled makeup, I also applaud Whang-Od for what others may perceive as imperfections.

Anti-aging is not a beauty standard.
Authenticity is.

@ FeministNews

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

And then she voted against the right to contraception so she could double this problem and give it to the next person

[Jen Pelka @jenpelka]

Some news about @unefemmewines from @YahooFinance 🍾🍾🍾

[Laura Gassner Otting @heylgo]

Every one of us is constantly in an evolution between who we were yesterday, and who we just realized we can become tomorrow.

It's exciting to see our potential -- it's wonderful!
It's also stressful to feel its burden -- it's hell.

It's Wonderhell, and it's out today.

[Margaret Wheeler Johnson @mwjohnso]

A few months back @theSkimm asked @HarrisPoll to look at how women are doing — you know, because it's all going so well...
https://t.co/8GF7s38kwR

[Helaine Olen @helaineolen]

My latest: Meet the con man who sold America on ‘fake it till you make it’ Glenn W. Turner is now all but forgotten. But this MLM huckster in flashy suits was once all but omnipresent in American life. https://t.co/pql4Al1cZC 1/

[Anna Curran @AnnaCurran]

.@Jamie_Nash I'm wondering what "Bad guys close in" looks like in RomComs... cc @AlisonWroby

[Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot]

Is there a good short explainer of the climate provisions of the IRA somewhere? I'm not kidding when I say that EVEN CLIMATE ACTIVISTS don't seem to have any idea what's in this thing, and helping implement it is on NO ONE's radar.

[Netflix @netflix]

20 perfect seconds of Allison Janney training for Lou's fight scenes

[Alison Turkos @alisonturkos]

What grounds me in my survivor justice work is relentless incrementalism, that's how systemic change happens. It's slow and it's exhausting. My work isn't paid, this is truly a labor of love. I believe, I know, survivors are magic, we are the most powerful people out there.