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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Facebook has permanently disabled my account for no stated reason. And there is no further means of restoration. It has been my primary means of communication since 2009. All the writing and connection with 5000 friends gone. Poof. Find me on Substack. Facebook was a family. It made me creative.

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

You want your audience to love a woman? Make sure she sacrifices her interests and the interests of women in general. Make sure she hobbles herself and collapses emotionally so that women are affirmed as essentially damaged. That's the reason for Kate Whyler.

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

THE PASS AND THE HISTORY OF NOW. He doesn't mean what he's saying. You don't understand him. He comes from a different time. He means exactly what he's saying. I understand him perfectly. He controls my world. He has always controlled my world. And yours.

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Everyone is already steeped in the Fascist playbook. Step by step and value by value. It's every religion's view of women applied to everyone else.

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

What would it sound like if a woman didn’t give a shit about what anyone thought of her and just went about the business of not trying to impress or win anyone to her side?

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

A sweet message I found today in "notes from subscribers."

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

NEW STACK: A MOMENT FOR NOT DEATH The other night, I was awakened in the middle of sleep. A hot rash had bloomed on my arms and was snaking around other parts of my body. I turned on the light in the bathroom. It was a moment from The Exorcist. lauriestone.substack.com/p/a-moment-of-not-death

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

There is no man on the planet who hates women I will ever give two fucks about. I won't kill you, but you can go die.

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

No one was tricked. They knew what they were voting for and want it.

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

where you have always lived. There is time to note the rate it takes blood to flow from the site of entry to the floor and to observe how quickly it pools. The speed with which blood is only too happy to leave your body gets you up searching for a belt.

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

What happens when you watch a lot of streaming shows about spies and snipers. The bullet hit my thigh midway between the hip and knee. There was time to be glad it hadn’t hit a vital organ. When you are shot, time opens up like a corridor in those dreams about discovering extra rooms in the house

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The information I am seeking to avoid is generally stapled to every tree like a sign for a missing dog.

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

If you are researching examples of the fitness of men to run things, look no further than our present government.

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

There’s a vibe in the air of this park that doesn’t change much from generation to generation. Before I stood up, I said to Richard, “I have an idea,” and off I went to offer cookies to the people on benches in the sun.

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

the life I am going to live is beginning. I can feel it. I can see myself shooting the movie with a hand held camera. Last Tuesday, with Richard, there’s a jazz band playing near us, and they’re good. The trumpeter sounds a bit like Miles.

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

You could see they were having sex with each other and plunging into fits of jealousy. You could see why we wait until almost there is no air. I remembered lying in the grass here with Bruce. I’m seventeen, and we’d started having sex, and the park is sex, and my life is about to begin,

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

One day in Washington Square Park, I came upon a troupe of acrobats performing on the paths. They were ragged and very beautiful in their juggling and feats of balance. They were indifferent to onlookers, who watched them with awe, the crowds expanding.

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This place isn't for me . . . just posting billboards. Probably useless. xxL

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

New stack post. Still warm from the oven.

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

It’s snowing, and my mistakes are beautiful, no two alike. When I was a kid they called it snow, the nothing on TV that vibrated. I was talking with a friend who is 53, and I realized that when I was 53 I would not have allowed myself to imagine the mind of a person who was 78.

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

What macho offers men is a way to feel good about despising the image of Woman—as restrictive, morally judgmental, repulsed by men’s animal nature, priggish—that men have invented. Men cheer Dylan and the Beats not in spite of their towering hatred of women but because of it.

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

A Zoom on taking risks as a writer. Starts in one hour from 3 to 4 EST. For paid subscribers to the stack. Email me for a link: lauriestone@substack.com

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

One day Richard said to me, “I’m the most patient person you know.” I believed him, and then I wondered if this was an example of brainwashing. I tried to think of other people who liked me more than Richard, and no one came to mind. I tried to think of someone I liked more than Richard. Nada.

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I was reminded of a brilliant remark once made by Richard I have often quoted without attribution: “Every promise invites a change of heart.”

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

keep myself only unto you, for so long as we both shall live.” I thought no one in the history of promises has ever said yes to one word of this with an untroubled conscience.

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The judge read out a passage that was more or less a standard part of the marriage ceremony we had forgotten about: “I promise to love and cherish you, in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, for richer for poorer, for better for worse, and forsaking all others,

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

they must affirm at the risk of being murdered, mutilated, robbed of their children and property, prevented from working and gathering with other women to put an end to it all.

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

out the obvious to me. The cost to women of the gross generalizations men have inscribed about them in religions, social customs, and laws, has been to regulate where their bodies can circulate, what they must wear, who they must marry, what work they must perform, what lies about themselves

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

My point is to illustrate the way it feels to be grossly misidentified. To show men the way women feel all the time and have for as long as men have been describing women. The cost to men of my gross generalization is to ruffle a few feathers. "Not all me," they tell me, because they like pointing

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

When I generalize about "men" without making a distinction between this kind of man and that kind of man, I am playing turnabout. For 10,000 years and in the greatly revered texts of Western literature and philosophy, men have referred to "women" without making any qualifications.

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

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Laurie Stone @lauriestone.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Special link for new subscribers. xxL lauriestone.substack.com/80016d8d

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