✨Meg✨
@rootedmovements.bsky.social
Sarcastic human making world-saving relatable with humor, heart, & eye rolls. 🌍💙🙄
~ MSW 📝
~ Climate Psychology Enthusiast 🌱
~ Public health, labor, & climate justice professional 🌿⚡
~ Macro social worker with a knack for storytelling & community-building
~ MSW 📝
~ Climate Psychology Enthusiast 🌱
~ Public health, labor, & climate justice professional 🌿⚡
~ Macro social worker with a knack for storytelling & community-building
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✨Meg✨
@rootedmovements.bsky.social
· Jan 23
The last few days have been wild as expected, and we’ve got 4 more years ahead. Take care of yourself. PRO TIP: When you shrink your voice & deny your needs, you disappear. The cost of staying small is greater than the fear of change. Don’t shrink—adjust, heal, and rise. We need you. #IWill”
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🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the race for NYC mayor!!!
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the race for NYC mayor!!!
Turns out you can be trauma-informed, attachment-aware, and still end up married to a man who doesn’t care about your soup.
Read the field notes.
#midlifereclamation #feministawakening
👉 Letter to My 30-Year-Old Self
Read the field notes.
#midlifereclamation #feministawakening
👉 Letter to My 30-Year-Old Self
Letter To My 30 Year Old Self
How It Happens, Even When You Know Better)
open.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Turns out you can be trauma-informed, attachment-aware, and still end up married to a man who doesn’t care about your soup.
Read the field notes.
#midlifereclamation #feministawakening
👉 Letter to My 30-Year-Old Self
Read the field notes.
#midlifereclamation #feministawakening
👉 Letter to My 30-Year-Old Self
Imagine: a progressive, feminist social worker who built her career dissecting systems…
and somehow landed her ass in Patriarchyville, waiting for “after this deadline” to finally arrive.
Newsflash: After isn’t coming.
And I’m done playing.
-Stop Waiting for After
open.substack.com/pub/megalane...
and somehow landed her ass in Patriarchyville, waiting for “after this deadline” to finally arrive.
Newsflash: After isn’t coming.
And I’m done playing.
-Stop Waiting for After
open.substack.com/pub/megalane...
October 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Imagine: a progressive, feminist social worker who built her career dissecting systems…
and somehow landed her ass in Patriarchyville, waiting for “after this deadline” to finally arrive.
Newsflash: After isn’t coming.
And I’m done playing.
-Stop Waiting for After
open.substack.com/pub/megalane...
and somehow landed her ass in Patriarchyville, waiting for “after this deadline” to finally arrive.
Newsflash: After isn’t coming.
And I’m done playing.
-Stop Waiting for After
open.substack.com/pub/megalane...
Not all grief looks like a funeral. Some of it looks like a wedding.
I showed up for the side of the family that never showed up for me because one woman tried.
And that’s the whole story.
⚡ New essay: Still the One Who Showed Up
I showed up for the side of the family that never showed up for me because one woman tried.
And that’s the whole story.
⚡ New essay: Still the One Who Showed Up
Still the One Who Showed Up
A funeral never held. A reckoning that wouldn’t stay quiet.
open.substack.com
June 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Not all grief looks like a funeral. Some of it looks like a wedding.
I showed up for the side of the family that never showed up for me because one woman tried.
And that’s the whole story.
⚡ New essay: Still the One Who Showed Up
I showed up for the side of the family that never showed up for me because one woman tried.
And that’s the whole story.
⚡ New essay: Still the One Who Showed Up
He’s kind. He listens. He knows what consent means.
I still caught myself handing him an easier world than his sister.
This isn’t about parenting, it’s about what patriarchy looks like when you’re too tired to notice.
📖 New Substack: Feminism Didn’t Fold the Laundry
I still caught myself handing him an easier world than his sister.
This isn’t about parenting, it’s about what patriarchy looks like when you’re too tired to notice.
📖 New Substack: Feminism Didn’t Fold the Laundry
The Most Dangerous Place Patriarchy Hides: Home
The Night I Saw My Blind Spot
open.substack.com
June 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
He’s kind. He listens. He knows what consent means.
I still caught myself handing him an easier world than his sister.
This isn’t about parenting, it’s about what patriarchy looks like when you’re too tired to notice.
📖 New Substack: Feminism Didn’t Fold the Laundry
I still caught myself handing him an easier world than his sister.
This isn’t about parenting, it’s about what patriarchy looks like when you’re too tired to notice.
📖 New Substack: Feminism Didn’t Fold the Laundry
Ever feel like you’re emotionally composting in a society built on your unpaid labor? Same. Welcome to my rot era. 🥀✨
Read: A Field Guide to Feminist Rot →
Read: A Field Guide to Feminist Rot →
🥀 FIELD GUIDE TO FEMINIST ROT
For the woman decomposing the myth of having it all
open.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Ever feel like you’re emotionally composting in a society built on your unpaid labor? Same. Welcome to my rot era. 🥀✨
Read: A Field Guide to Feminist Rot →
Read: A Field Guide to Feminist Rot →
She blew up her life and applied to be a garden apprentice. Not a crisis. A reclamation. For every woman who woke up midlife and said: this isn’t me. Read : 🌱 Gray Area #GrayAreaWoman #MidlifeAwakening
#NeurodivergentWomen
#PerimenopauseTruth
#ReclaimYourLife
#NeurodivergentWomen
#PerimenopauseTruth
#ReclaimYourLife
GRAY AREA WOMAN
What it looks like when you blow up your life and still choose to bloom
open.substack.com
May 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
She blew up her life and applied to be a garden apprentice. Not a crisis. A reclamation. For every woman who woke up midlife and said: this isn’t me. Read : 🌱 Gray Area #GrayAreaWoman #MidlifeAwakening
#NeurodivergentWomen
#PerimenopauseTruth
#ReclaimYourLife
#NeurodivergentWomen
#PerimenopauseTruth
#ReclaimYourLife
Some of the deepest cuts don’t bleed. They come from the women we thought would open the door. This isn’t a callout—it’s a reckoning. For anyone who’s felt the ache of being quietly shut out, and is ready to build something truer—without dragging the old rules with them. #matriachs
Read Here:
Read Here:
Gatekeeping in a Gilded Cage:
On the women who didn’t help me, the part of me that still hoped they would, and what we all lose when we mistake performance for power.
open.substack.com
May 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Some of the deepest cuts don’t bleed. They come from the women we thought would open the door. This isn’t a callout—it’s a reckoning. For anyone who’s felt the ache of being quietly shut out, and is ready to build something truer—without dragging the old rules with them. #matriachs
Read Here:
Read Here:
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May 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.”
Melinda Gates
Melinda Gates
May 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.”
Melinda Gates
Melinda Gates
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This is UNACCEPTABLE & alarming. “Independent journalists are being silenced simply because their reporting may threaten the ambitions of their corporate owners,” Gomez wrote. “It will only embolden an Administration hell-bent on censoring speech and controlling content.” www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/m...
CBS News boss exits amid Trump pressure | CNN Business
Wendy McMahon’s exit has some employees feeling “like a purge is underway,” one CBS correspondent told CNN on Monday.
www.cnn.com
May 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This is UNACCEPTABLE & alarming. “Independent journalists are being silenced simply because their reporting may threaten the ambitions of their corporate owners,” Gomez wrote. “It will only embolden an Administration hell-bent on censoring speech and controlling content.” www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/m...
Ever felt the sting of showing something brave—and getting “feedback” instead of belief?
I wrote about the quiet gut-punches that keep women shrinking, the system that taught us to brace, and what it means to risk being seen anyway.
#feminism #unlearning Read Here:
I wrote about the quiet gut-punches that keep women shrinking, the system that taught us to brace, and what it means to risk being seen anyway.
#feminism #unlearning Read Here:
Why Women Stop Showing Their Brilliance
Because they already know how it will land. This is how I’m learning to risk being seen anyway.
open.substack.com
May 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Ever felt the sting of showing something brave—and getting “feedback” instead of belief?
I wrote about the quiet gut-punches that keep women shrinking, the system that taught us to brace, and what it means to risk being seen anyway.
#feminism #unlearning Read Here:
I wrote about the quiet gut-punches that keep women shrinking, the system that taught us to brace, and what it means to risk being seen anyway.
#feminism #unlearning Read Here:
It’s time we stop participating in a system that was never meant for us and time to take ownership of the power we have always had and stop with the lie.
May 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
It’s time we stop participating in a system that was never meant for us and time to take ownership of the power we have always had and stop with the lie.
The biggest gap in gender equity isn’t the pay gap—it’s the unpaid wife gap. Until we fix who does the hidden labor, everything else is a lie. #gendergap
May 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The biggest gap in gender equity isn’t the pay gap—it’s the unpaid wife gap. Until we fix who does the hidden labor, everything else is a lie. #gendergap
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It’s not just Gambia.
We got internal cables, notes and other records that show how U.S. diplomats have intervened on behalf of Starlink in at least four other developing nations. All while the U.S. has withdrawn foreign aid from those same countries.
We got internal cables, notes and other records that show how U.S. diplomats have intervened on behalf of Starlink in at least four other developing nations. All while the U.S. has withdrawn foreign aid from those same countries.
May 16, 2025 at 1:07 AM
It’s not just Gambia.
We got internal cables, notes and other records that show how U.S. diplomats have intervened on behalf of Starlink in at least four other developing nations. All while the U.S. has withdrawn foreign aid from those same countries.
We got internal cables, notes and other records that show how U.S. diplomats have intervened on behalf of Starlink in at least four other developing nations. All while the U.S. has withdrawn foreign aid from those same countries.
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Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship
A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
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Justice Jackson nails where we are right now:
“Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.”
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
“Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.”
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
May 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Justice Jackson nails where we are right now:
“Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.”
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
“Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.”
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
Women aren’t breaking down.
We’re coming back online.
The systems are still broken, our nervous systems just stopped cosigning the lie.
New essay: The Anatomy of Unlearning
A field report from the moment you stop performing and start existing.
read:
#somatictruth #feministreality #mentalhealth
We’re coming back online.
The systems are still broken, our nervous systems just stopped cosigning the lie.
New essay: The Anatomy of Unlearning
A field report from the moment you stop performing and start existing.
read:
#somatictruth #feministreality #mentalhealth
THE ANATOMY OF UNLEARNING…..
What It Feels Like to Finally Stop Explaining Yourself
There was no epiphany.
open.substack.com
May 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Women aren’t breaking down.
We’re coming back online.
The systems are still broken, our nervous systems just stopped cosigning the lie.
New essay: The Anatomy of Unlearning
A field report from the moment you stop performing and start existing.
read:
#somatictruth #feministreality #mentalhealth
We’re coming back online.
The systems are still broken, our nervous systems just stopped cosigning the lie.
New essay: The Anatomy of Unlearning
A field report from the moment you stop performing and start existing.
read:
#somatictruth #feministreality #mentalhealth
Modern stake? It’s being labeled too intense, too emotional, too much.
Meanwhile, you’re out here holding the damn scaffolding together.
So here’s to letting it collapse—with ice water in hand.
#PettyBetty #WitchDidntBurn #HighFidelityTruths
Meanwhile, you’re out here holding the damn scaffolding together.
So here’s to letting it collapse—with ice water in hand.
#PettyBetty #WitchDidntBurn #HighFidelityTruths
May 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Modern stake? It’s being labeled too intense, too emotional, too much.
Meanwhile, you’re out here holding the damn scaffolding together.
So here’s to letting it collapse—with ice water in hand.
#PettyBetty #WitchDidntBurn #HighFidelityTruths
Meanwhile, you’re out here holding the damn scaffolding together.
So here’s to letting it collapse—with ice water in hand.
#PettyBetty #WitchDidntBurn #HighFidelityTruths
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Public health officials in Los Angeles County have declared an outbreak of hepatitis A, a highly contagious liver infection driven by a virus that can, in rare cases, cause severe illness. Here’s what to know.
What to Know About the Hepatitis A Outbreak in L.A. County
www.nytimes.com
May 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Public health officials in Los Angeles County have declared an outbreak of hepatitis A, a highly contagious liver infection driven by a virus that can, in rare cases, cause severe illness. Here’s what to know.
I used to shrink myself to be lovable. Quiet Helpful Forgiving A buffer. Then I realized, they never planned to meet me.
They just liked me smaller This is the moment I stopped holding my breath for people who let me drown. It’s raw & if it hits your gut it’s for you #FeministRecovery #MotherWound
They just liked me smaller This is the moment I stopped holding my breath for people who let me drown. It’s raw & if it hits your gut it’s for you #FeministRecovery #MotherWound
“We Don’t Do That Anymore”
Aka: What Happens When the Scapegoat Stops Performing Emotional CPR
open.substack.com
May 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I used to shrink myself to be lovable. Quiet Helpful Forgiving A buffer. Then I realized, they never planned to meet me.
They just liked me smaller This is the moment I stopped holding my breath for people who let me drown. It’s raw & if it hits your gut it’s for you #FeministRecovery #MotherWound
They just liked me smaller This is the moment I stopped holding my breath for people who let me drown. It’s raw & if it hits your gut it’s for you #FeministRecovery #MotherWound
Three men shaped my life.
One died. One vanished. One stayed.
But none of them asked who I was.
This is a wake-up call for me, and maybe for all of us.
Read: “The Men Who Shaped Me and the Reckoning I Refuse to Miss” #RevivalLab #SubstackWriters #WomenWhoRemember
One died. One vanished. One stayed.
But none of them asked who I was.
This is a wake-up call for me, and maybe for all of us.
Read: “The Men Who Shaped Me and the Reckoning I Refuse to Miss” #RevivalLab #SubstackWriters #WomenWhoRemember
The Men Who Shaped Me, the Silence That Almost Took Me, and the Reckoning I Refuse to Miss
Three men. One lost to death. One to silence. One, I’m still married to. What I’ve learned about love, autonomy, privilege, and the quiet collapse of a country too distracted to notice.
open.substack.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Three men shaped my life.
One died. One vanished. One stayed.
But none of them asked who I was.
This is a wake-up call for me, and maybe for all of us.
Read: “The Men Who Shaped Me and the Reckoning I Refuse to Miss” #RevivalLab #SubstackWriters #WomenWhoRemember
One died. One vanished. One stayed.
But none of them asked who I was.
This is a wake-up call for me, and maybe for all of us.
Read: “The Men Who Shaped Me and the Reckoning I Refuse to Miss” #RevivalLab #SubstackWriters #WomenWhoRemember
No Confusion here. Just awareness and awareness can be dangerous here……
May 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
No Confusion here. Just awareness and awareness can be dangerous here……