♀️ Feminist Friday:
Wilma Mankiller became the first woman elected principal chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1987.
She helped expand health care, education and jobs.
Breaking a barrier matters.
What you build afterward matters, too. 💜
#MANTM

🚨 Male Audacity Report:
A viral video appears to show a man cutting his wife's ponytail during a hug as a “prank.”
Staged or real, here's the question:
When did someone else's body become a prop for your joke?
Consent doesn't disappear in a relationship.
#MANTM
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💜 Women Choosing Themselves Wednesday:
Sometimes choosing yourself is a big life change.
Sometimes it's making the appointment, asking for help, or taking the afternoon off without an apology.
What small choice have you made for yourself lately?
#MANTM

💜 Thoughtful Tuesday:
Were you taught that being a “good woman” meant being easy to accommodate—and never needing much yourself?
Consideration is lovely.
Disappearing to keep everyone comfortable isn't.
What are you unlearning?
#MANTM

😂 Menopause Monday: I've reached the age where “be nice” is no longer a convincing argument for tolerating nonsense.
Boundaries aren't a personality flaw. They're an efficiency upgrade.
What have you stopped explaining? 💜
#MANTM

💜 October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

To every woman who decided, “This isn't how I want to live,” and began changing her life: I'm proud of you.

If you're still figuring out your next step, this is for you too.

You deserve safety, peace, and a life of your own. 💜

#MANTM

♀️ Feminist Friday:
You probably know RBG.
But do you know Pauli Murray?
Her legal thinking helped shape arguments for women’s equality—and influenced Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Sometimes history remembers the victory before the woman who helped make it possible. 💜
#MANTM

💜 Women Wednesday:
You can listen to someone's opinion without making it your instruction.
You can disappoint someone without doing something wrong.
Everybody doesn't have to understand your choices.
You do. 💜
#WomenWednesday #MANTM

💭 Thoughtful Tuesday:
You don't need another situation that's going to “make you stronger.”
You're strong enough.
Maybe the next chapter isn't about rebuilding.
Maybe it's finally about getting to enjoy the woman all that strength kept alive. 💜
#ThoughtfulTuesday #MANTM

🔥 Menopause Monday:
“WHO TURNED THE HEAT ON?!”
Nobody.
Thermostat hasn't moved. Everyone else is fine.
Your body has simply scheduled a brief spontaneous combustion. 😂
Five minutes later: freezing.
Hormones: Excellent. She's ready for another round.
#MenopauseMonday #MANTM

♀️ Feminist Friday:
“I believe in equality, but I'm not a feminist.”
I've always found that worth examining.
If feminism is fundamentally about women's equality, why has “feminist” become a word some people feel they need to defend, qualify or distance themselves from?
#FeministFriday #MANTM

🚨 The Male Audacity Report:
Sometimes competence becomes a punishment.
You always handle it, so people stop asking whether you should HAVE to.
Then comes: “You should've asked me to help.”
Sir. She's holding the baby AND the food. Did we need a formal request? 😂
#MANTM

💜 Women Wednesday:

You don't owe every decision you've ever made a lifetime commitment.

You learned. You grew. You got new information. Maybe you simply want something different now.

You're allowed to change your mind.

You're allowed to choose again. 💜

#WomenWednesday #MANTM

💭 Thoughtful Tuesday
How much of what you want is actually something you want—and how much is something you learned you were supposed to want?
You're allowed to examine the life script.
Keep what fits. Rewrite what doesn't. 💜
#ThoughtfulTuesday #MANTM

🔥 Menopause Monday:
Walk into room.
Forget why you're there.
Walk out.
Remember.
Walk back in.
Forget again.
Then lose your phone while you're holding it.
Menopause brain fog: Storage full. Please try again later. 😂
#MenopauseMonday #MANTM

♀️ Feminist Friday:

“She’s selfish.”

Or maybe she said no. Protected her time. Stopped being endlessly available. Made a decision based on what was right for her.

There’s a difference between selfishness and having a self. 💜

#FeministFriday #MANTM

🚨 The Male Audacity Report:

“You should have asked.”

Sir, if she has to notice the job, plan it, delegate it, remind you, and follow up afterward...

you're not sharing the responsibility.

You're being managed. 😂

#MANTM #TheMaleAudacityReport

💜 Women Wednesday: Sue Eakin.

Eakin spent years researching Twelve Years a Slave and co-edited the landmark 1968 edition that helped return Solomon Northup’s story to readers.

Here’s to women who refuse to let important stories disappear.

#WomenWednesday #MANTM

💭 Thoughtful Tuesday:

Being “easygoing” isn't the same as having no needs.

If you're always the one adjusting, accommodating and saying “it's fine” when it isn't, eventually it's worth asking:

Where am I in all of this? 💜

#ThoughtfulTuesday #MANTM

🔥 Menopause Monday:

Nothing like waking up at 3:17 a.m. so your brain can urgently discuss something embarrassing you said in 1998.

Ma'am. This meeting could have been an email. 😂

#MenopauseMonday #MANTM