Unravel

Latina. Married to a brilliant woman who battles every day against mental disorders. Rad Feminist. Socialist. Mental health awareness enthusiast. I'm done being fearful. I love literature, prog rock, philosophy, science

[desidelreyy-deactivated20241207]

"Any form of extremism is bad."

Your extremism is based on hatred, mine is based on equality and freedom. We are not the same.

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

what is this genre of photos called

[vi-stri]

PLEASE talk about Congo, Haiti, and Sudan, with the same fervor you give Palestine. PLEASE care about black struggle and suffering.

[flutterbvnny]

this fund gives menstrual kits to women in sudan and helps keep community kitchens running ! it’s only $10USD to donate for a menstrual kit!

https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/padsforpeace/

[bubbleteavangelist]

[bubbleteavangelist]

Genuinely why are people like this allowed to reproduce?

[uncomfortablecliche]

we gotta start bullying ppl who say shit like this about children. lady shut the fuck up your self hatred is contagious

[dhaaruni]

Go outside. It's giving,

[weavemama]

daily reminder that there is absolutely nothing normal about being expected to waste a majority of your life at a corporation to survive instead of indulging in better life experiences ✨

[ralfmaximus]

In the 1960s it was a common speculation that by 1980 the typical work week would consist of 4 days. And by the year 2000 we’d be working no more than 3 days a week.

Because of computerization, automation, and better efficiencies in workflow.

Guess what happened instead?

[yeahiwasintheshit]

[catchymemes]

[kiefbowl]

a nonspecific list of female youtubers I like for one reason or another, with link to one of their videos. feel free to share your recs in the notes:

Atomic Twins - Trying to draw police sketches of celebrities (gone terribly wrong) [x]

Bookborn - "It's historical": violence against women in fantasy [x]

Bukola - How I Make Time For Everything (even with a full time job) [x]

Caroline Winkler - How to Design a Room from Start to Finish [x]

Coffee and Cults - EVERYTHING You DON'T Know About Hollywood's Hidden Scientologists [x]

Ellen Brock - 12 Ways to Write Better Sentences for Creative Writers [x]

julia cudney - bridgerton math [x]

Juniper Dev - I Made A Goofy Office Simulation Game In 72 Hours [x]

lexi aka newlynova - book recs for (almost) every genre 📚 where to start if you want to read something new!! [x]

Ling Chang* - How to do water marbling - it's super fun and easy! [x]

MAIAZINE - why you hate everything on your closet (and how to fix it) [x]

Mina Le - The Evil Symbolism of Milk [x]

The Musings of a Crouton - Your natural teeth CAN’T be THAT bad 😬- The Rise of Veneers & The Veneer Tech Scam [x]

Nicole Rudolph - The History of Open Concept is Sexism [x]

shay a - Tyra Banks is Trying to Have a Redemption Arc and it's NOT Working [x]

Siobhan Brier Aguilar - I read Elizabeth Gilbert's new book about her plot to k*ll her gf so you don't have to. [x]

V. Birchwood - I Tried Stone Age Menstruation Underwear [x]

*more active on other platforms now

[luxfatale]

a study i did of “first braids to leave orbit (unconfirmed)” ft. Christina Koch and all of us🌎✨

[ampervadasz]

[ofkindnessandchaos-deactivated2]

OMFG.

[all-aboard-the-bane-train]

Very curious doggo

[castle-engineer-deactivated2019]

Reminder that puffins are extremely social and like to fit in with their friends, so they will adopt mannerisms and interests of the group. So there is a good chance this little guy is trying to be friends with the photographer by showing his interest in the camera.

[willow-wanderings]

TIL photographers are a lot like puffins, cuz we also make friends by showing interest in your camera XD

[dykelliewilliams]

Reminds me of the time researchers were trying to get puffins to land in a specific area so the put decoys up to draw them in but the decoys only had 1 leg and

[legally-a-bastard]

this is so fucking cute

[evilrosamundpike]

[recoveringsoulsposts]

SHOULD WOMEN CONTINUE BIRTHING BOYS? ⬇️

TikTok: @ sekhmet.unearthed

A great analysis and breakdown. It’s honestly a RELIEF hearing women say they won’t be having sons !!! Y’all this should be GLOBAL.

[the-big-mood]

[immortalremnantriver]

Relationship of a perpetuating existing extreme power and balances between the sexes do not work. These women are upper middle class often times by the looks of it and clearly not suffering in the same conditions poorer women who do not want to inhabit demeaning, servile roles if they can help it.

Women do the majority of domestic labor still. This is not a sign that they love the scrotes and that they find fulfillment in wasting their life away cleaning, cooking and wiping butts! If being servile was a source of satisfaction men would be the most servile creatures in the planet because they love nothing more other than chasing instant gratification.

[depsidase]

[maisiewilliams]

10 Female Written Short Stories Everyone Should Read

I have seen a post circulating for a while that lists 10 short stories everyone should read and, while these are great works, most of them are older and written by white men. I wanted to make a modern list that features fresh, fantastic and under represented voices. Enjoy!

1. A Temporary Matter by Jhumpa Lahiri — A couple in a failing marriage share secrets during a blackout. 

2. Stone Animals by Kelly Link — A family moves into a haunted house.

3. Reeling for the Empire by Karen Russell — Women are sold by their families to a silk factory, where they are slowly transformed into human silkworms. 

4. Call My Name by Aimee Bender — A woman wearing a ball gown secretly auditions men on the subway. 

5. The Man on the Stairs by Miranda July — A woman wakes up to a noise on the stairs. 

6. Brownies by ZZ Packer — Rival Girl Scout troops are separated by race. 

7. City of My Dreams by Zsuzi Gartner — A woman works at a shop selling food-inspired soap and tries not to think about her past. 

8. A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor — A family drives from Georgia to Florida, even though a serial killer is on the loose. 

9. Hitting Budapest by NoViolet Bulawayo — A group of children, led by a girl named Darling, travel to a rich neighborhood to steal guavas. 

10. You’re Ugly, Too by Lorrie Moore — A history professor flies to Manhattan to spend Halloween weekend with her younger sister.

[astrangewoman]

I LOVE THIS POST!!

I’d like to add:

11. Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor

12. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (this one is my favorite short story of all time)

13. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

14. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates

15. Désirée’s Baby by Kate Chopin

16. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

17. Impressions of an Indian Childhood by Zitkala-Ša

(I wanted to put little summaries for each of them, but I’m afraid I’d spoil the whole story if I did!)

[ellydash]

adding a few more! all by women of color, & the first four were published within the last few years

18. “My Dear You,” Rachel Khong — love, loss, & absurdity in the afterlife

19. “The Husband Stitch,” Carmen Maria Machado — a feminist retelling of the folklore story “The Green Ribbon”

20. “Inventory,” Carmen Maria Machado — one woman’s retrospective list of her life’s sexual encounters

21. “Boys Go to Jupiter,” Danielle Evans — what happens after a white college student poses for a photo in a Confederate flag bikini

22. “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” ZZ Packer — a Black woman attends Yale University

[izzychao]

oh i have some of these too! many are science-fiction or science-fantasy, because the woman in those genres are severely under-represented ! The first two authors are slightly older, but their works are so important in the development of the roles of women in scifi as a genre so!

23. “Those Who Walk Away from Omelas” and “Mountain Ways” by Ursula K. Le Guin — The first is a study of philosophical questions similar to the trolley problem, told in very loose form. The second is a science-fantasy story about two women navigating love and sexuality in their society’s polyamorous marriage rituals. But honestly you should read all of Le Guin’s short stories and novels, she’s amazing.

24. “Bloodchild” by Octavia Butler — One of my all-time FAVORITE short stories, about a future where humans live alongside large insect-like aliens, and serve as hosts for their eggs and larval young. It’s gruesome, gory, unsettling, and honestly pretty horrific but it’s really wonderful–if you can handle horror in your stories I highly recommended it. Butler’s novels are also wonderful, please check them out if you can (not all of them are this unsettling)

25. “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi” by Pat Cadigan — A trans allegory in which future humans go through surgery to become invertebrate sea creatures (cephalopods and arthropods mostly) in order to better work in space. Wonderfully weird in so many ways.

26. “From the Lost Diary of Treefrog7” and “The Palm Tree Bandit” by Nnedi Okorafor — Lost Diary is a story about a woman and her husband exploring an alien jungle told through research log-style journal entries. Very much survival horror scifi. Palm Tree Bandit is told as a mother reciting a story to her daughter as she braids her hair, about her great-grandmother who started a kind of small revolution for women in Nigeria. Nnedi’s novels and other short stories, as well as her works within the comics industry, are all fantastic, so look into her more if you can!!!

[literaryformofthelastcentury]

I haven’t seen it yet on this post so I want to add probably my all-time favorite short story!

27. “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison — implicit racial biases analyzed through two girls’ stories as they grow up. Every paragraph is a new perspective on race and prejudice and it really makes you think.

[ryan-sometimes]

International Women’s Day March, March 8th 2026

📍 São Paulo, Brazil