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Thank you so much! Giving thanks for your amazing work which is so groundbreaking and brilliant 🙏❤️

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Ahh that means SO MUCH coming from you xx

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Apr 25, 2023Liked by Jessica DeFino

Will be adding these to the top of my reading list - thank you Jessica for all your work as usual! 💜

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Yay! You have to let me know what you think x

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Apr 25, 2023Liked by Jessica DeFino

Love seeing so many favorite writers and thinkers on this list. And happy book birthdays today to Virginia and Sara! 🎂 🎂

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Lol the timing wasn't even planned!

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Apr 25, 2023Liked by Jessica DeFino

Jessica! Thank you for reading, recommending and all your work in this space. I know throngs of women across the Pacific stand in solidarity with you.

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Thank YOU for writing such a brilliant and necessary book xx

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ahhhhh thank you jessica!!

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Happy book birthday :) :)

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Apr 25, 2023Liked by Jessica DeFino

Gah just did deep dive on Sara Peterson blog! So good!!!!! Can’t wait to read her book. Momfluencing is just so maddening. It’s amazing that we have laws on false advertising yet influencers don’t fall under those rules? I truly feel sad for girls growing up with this content, expecting motherhood to be like a perfect insta dream.

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You're going to loooove Sara's work!!

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So many familiar (and brilliant) faces here!

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FLAwleSS - YIKeS! What I see is you have uncovered another jail with fuzzy pink bars. The bars just change colors and shapes to distract, deter from the real work that women are meant to do. Thank you Jessica - our fearless SCOUT and leader of the glittery evil.

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I love getting book recommendations from you! Looking forward to reading these. (Also, how did I never know that there was a name for what standpoint theory describes???)

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thanks for the book recs!

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🧨Jessica is dynamite and I want to dedicate my GLAMOUR PUSS Musezical song TO HER... 🎧 sit back and give a listen....a little break - fast.

💋 Glamour Puss/Users/laurasottile/Desktop/Glamour Puss (17) m4a.m4a

(5 Minutes)

LYRICS

When you dive so low

Chasing the Status Quo

It's a losing race

and it only awards you with a Jane doe Face

You see

The mainstream boutique

is a thief of your mystic

it will always interfere

With what you hold most dear

And that is YOU

Glamour Puss

To thy own self be true

To they own self be true

If you want to be new

You've got to pull away from the glowing avenue

Where the MASS appeal

Is spewing it's vile spiel

Glamour, Glamour, Glamour Puss

Glamour

Glamour

Glamour Puss.................................................................💫

Laura La Sottile Flying Bra

2017 Copyright

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Adding these to my reading list!

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Your work as a woman is the most beautiful in all the lands. Oh the irony! Keep it coming and thank you for all the new reading suggestions.

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IS this contest open to your Canadian subscribers? I would love Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture by Sara Petersen

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Yes! Interviewed her about it here last December:

https://jessicadefino.substack.com/p/clare-chambers-unmodified-body

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