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Today is the born day of Black bisexual poet and feminist activist #JuneJordan. 
I quote her in just about every essay:
“Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires." feministgiant.com/p/essay-inciti… #JuneJordan
“Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires." feministgiant.com/p/essay-inciti… #JuneJordan
#JuneJordan is one of my favourite poets and activists. Her words are tattooed on my right arm. She wrote “Poem About Police Violence” after police chocked to death a Black man called Arthur Miller in Brooklyn, New York, June 14, 1978. lambdaliterary.org/wp-content/upl…
Today is #BiVisibiltyDay. In the chapter on lust in #7NecessarySins, I quote from one of my favourite lectures/essays by Black bisexual poet, intellectual and activist June Jordan. It is about the political and revolutionary power of bisexuality. #LGBTQ 🏳️🌈
"If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable...," June Jordan.
The essay on the revolutionary potential of bisexuality & critique of gender is from 1991. You can read A New Politics of Sexuality rachelyon1.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/a-new-…
The essay on the revolutionary potential of bisexuality & critique of gender is from 1991. You can read A New Politics of Sexuality rachelyon1.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/a-new-…
“We must move out from the shadows of our collective subjugation - as people of color/as women/as gay/as lesbian/as bisexual human beings,” June Jordan, 1991. #BisexualVisibilityDay #BiVisibilityDay #LGBTQ 🏳️🌈
A year ago today! Happy First Birthday to The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls! I love this book and I am proud that I wrote it. And this week, it came out in paperback. 🎥 @rerutled #7NecessarySins
In Friday’s FEMINIST GIANT Newsletter, you can read an exclusive excerpt from the chapter on the “sin” of Violence.
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If you are in the US, I recommend buying The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls from here or from your local bookshop bookshop.org #7NecessarySins
Mawada El-Adham is one of at least 9 female #TikTok influencers arrested in #Egyp since April and charged with “violating family values. She has 3.1 million followers on TikTok. Last week she was sentenced to 2yrs in prison and a 300k ($19k) fine. #بعد_اذن_الاسرة_المصرية
Mawada and the other young, mostly working class women are detained & charged w/ “violating family values” for dancing,befriending men consensually on #TikTok
Wealthy men who are being exposed for raping women are not charged of “violating family values”
#بعد_اذن_الاسرة_المصرية
Wealthy men who are being exposed for raping women are not charged of “violating family values”
#بعد_اذن_الاسرة_المصرية
Fuck “family values” #Egypt:
- young working class women, charged with “violating family values” and incarcerated for dancing on TikTok
- young wealthy men who drugged women’s drinks, raped & filmed them are free, not charged of “violating family values”
#بعد_اذن_الاسرة_المصرية
- young working class women, charged with “violating family values” and incarcerated for dancing on TikTok
- young wealthy men who drugged women’s drinks, raped & filmed them are free, not charged of “violating family values”
#بعد_اذن_الاسرة_المصرية
When an elected official - a white man - calls another elected official - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Latina - a “fucking bitch” on the Capitol steps, it is indeed outrageously “nothing new” as she says. Racism & misogyny are veteran bedfellows.
BUT: there *is* something new about AOC & other women of colour recently been elected to Congress.
You think Yoho was the 1st man to call a congresswoman a “fucking bitch” or other epithets?
Fuck no.
But AOC et are looking at that white supremacist misogyny & saying “Fuck no.”
You think Yoho was the 1st man to call a congresswoman a “fucking bitch” or other epithets?
Fuck no.
But AOC et are looking at that white supremacist misogyny & saying “Fuck no.”
AOC became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. She’s subjected to white supremacy, misogyny & ageism.
Ambition, one of The Seven Necessary Sins For wans Girls, is defiance, a middle finger to patriarchy’s insistence that women shrink ourselves. “Who do you think you are?” I am asked. Here’s who I think I am #7NecessarySins
Ambition is a “sin” because patriarchy wants women to be *less than*; ambition means being *more than*. #7NecessarySins
Patriarchy works in tandem with other forms of oppression. That is especially the case for women of colour and women from marginalized groups: patriarchy, racism, capitalism, classism, transphobia, etc. ##NecessarySins
Today a man sent me a death threat on Instagram.
Also today, a male teen become the 1st Canadian ever charged with carrying out an "incel"-inspired terror attack globalnews.ca/news/6910670/t…
Toxic masculinity kills. Online misogyny incites violence against women. Fuck the patriarchy
Also today, a male teen become the 1st Canadian ever charged with carrying out an "incel"-inspired terror attack globalnews.ca/news/6910670/t…
Toxic masculinity kills. Online misogyny incites violence against women. Fuck the patriarchy
I insist that you all see the misogynist shit I get here daily and now this death threat.
I don’t want to be protected. I want patriarchy to stop protecting misogynist terrorism. That’s the only time I use the word “Terrorism.”
🎥 @rerutled
I don’t want to be protected. I want patriarchy to stop protecting misogynist terrorism. That’s the only time I use the word “Terrorism.”
🎥 @rerutled
#Egyptian vice police have arrested TikTok Star Mawada Eladhm, 22, on charges of “violating family principles and values.” She is the 2nd Egyptian woman to be arrested for posting videos deemed in violation of societal principles and values since April. egyptianstreets.com/2020/05/16/fro…
On April 21, Haneen Hossam was arrested for “inciting debauchery” and “promoting human trafficking” through her use of TikTok. #Egypt
Attention is power. When you command it, you command power, and so patriarchy swoops in and punishes you.
From The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls: Attention
From The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls: Attention
In my chapter on the importance of Profanity, I have a message to patriarchs - especially religious conservatives of all faiths - who are obsessed with vaginas:
Stay out of my vagina unless I want you in there. #7NecessarySins
Stay out of my vagina unless I want you in there. #7NecessarySins
Patriarchy reserves for itself the power to offend and the power to be obscene. In The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls, I take that power and upend it. And I claim it.
I am uncivil. I reject decorum. #7NecessarySins
I am uncivil. I reject decorum. #7NecessarySins
There is nothing polite about patriarchy.
There is nothing civil about misogyny, racism, transphobia.
It is imperative to understand how politeness, decorum, politeness are used to uphold authority. #7NecessarySins
There is nothing civil about misogyny, racism, transphobia.
It is imperative to understand how politeness, decorum, politeness are used to uphold authority. #7NecessarySins
I don’t say “fuck” because studies show that people who use profanity are more intelligent. I swear because I insist that my language be as free as I want to be. I own my body and I own my language.
From The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls: Profanity
From The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls: Profanity
It is imperative to understand how civility, decorum, manners, and the like are used to uphold authority and that we are urged to acquiesce as a form of maintaining that authority: whether we are urged to be civil to racists or polite to patriarchy. lithub.com/mona-eltahawy-…
Mona Eltahawy Would Like You to Fuck Right Off With Your Civility Politics
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The Gospel of Mona (The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls).
I love hearing reader reactions to my books. To have artist Brita DeMars create a sculpture after reading one of them is INCREDIBLE!
A teaser
🎥 Nasty Women Feminist Arts Collective
I love hearing reader reactions to my books. To have artist Brita DeMars create a sculpture after reading one of them is INCREDIBLE!
A teaser
🎥 Nasty Women Feminist Arts Collective
Here’s the full video that Brita DeMars made in which she narrates how my book inspired her sculpture The Gospel of Mona (The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls) for the exhibit Rituals of Resistance
And here’s my essay about being an anarchist feminist that artist Brita DeMars also says inspired her sculpture The Gospel of Mona (The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls) #7NecessarySins
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Thank you artist Brita DeMars for your incredible sculpture The Gospel of Mona (The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls) from Nasty Women exhibit Rituals of Resistance. Here’s a teaser
🎥 Nasty Women Feminist Arts Collective, Connecticut #7NecessarySins
🎥 Nasty Women Feminist Arts Collective, Connecticut #7NecessarySins
Here’s the full video that Brita DeMars made in which she narrates how my book inspired her sculpture The Gospel of Mona (The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls) for the exhibit Rituals of Resistance
And here’s my essay about being an anarchist feminist that artist Brita DeMars also says inspired her sculpture The Gospel of Mona (The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls) google.com/amp/s/www.nyti… #7NecessarySins
I have started a project about feminist and queer art that inspires me as I imagine the way forward during #COVID19 lockdown. patreon.com/monaeltahawy?f…
e.g. Nadine Faraj - There Will Be Millions of Us
You see it in my FEMINIST GIANT Dispatches From the Pandemic.
📷 @rerutled
e.g. Nadine Faraj - There Will Be Millions of Us
You see it in my FEMINIST GIANT Dispatches From the Pandemic.
📷 @rerutled
I will soon add incredible video I just received of artist Brita DeMars narrating how my work inspired:
The Gospel of Mona (Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls)
at the Nasty Women art show in Connecticut #7NecessarySins
The Gospel of Mona (Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls)
at the Nasty Women art show in Connecticut #7NecessarySins
It's all hand sewn and embroidered with red sequins - SEQUINS! And it comes with A "patriarchy" banner on the floor to be stepped on.
Fuck the patriarchy!
Fuck the patriarchy!
Attention is power. When you command it, you command power, and so patriarchy has muddied the waters around attention w/the word “whore.” A word intended to shame is used to convince women that to want attention is to want something shameful. Much like sex
In The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls - from where the above comes - I go on to explain how heteronormative patriarchy determines who deserves attention and sex. And why “whore” is central to that. #7NecessarySins
The most subversive thing a woman can do is to talk about her life as if it really matters. It does. #7NecessarySins
Every Thursday, on Instagram Live, I read from my second book The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls. And I post clips of my favourite bits. This is from the chapter on Attention:
I am a whore. Become an attention whore.
I am a whore. Become an attention whore.
I recorded the audiobook of The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls and also for my first book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Need a Sexual Revolution.
I read from the latter on Instagram Live on Tuesday.
I really enjoy the readings.
#MonaReads
I read from the latter on Instagram Live on Tuesday.
I really enjoy the readings.
#MonaReads
It’s great to see the “audience” engage with my readings ❤️✊🏽💜 #7NecessarySins
Mona Eltahawy Would Like You to Fuck Right Off With Your Civility Politics google.com/amp/s/www.vice…
This episode of #Australian TV show Q&A was banned from rebroadcast for reasons including I said “fuck” 10 times & asked “How many rapists must we kill before men stop raping women?”
Fuck civility.
Fuck civility.
Feminism is a daily struggle, a daily revolution. It is not something I keep in the closet and which I wear once every couple of weeks when some man has been a shit to me. It is a daily revolution for what we’re told is “impossible!” #Covid_19
🎥 @rerutled
🎥 @rerutled
Feminism is more than men, more than misogyny. It’s a struggle to destroy the patriarchy & its attendant oppressions. I began FEMINIST GIANT Dispatches because feminism must fight structural inequalities & injustices resulting from patriarchy
🎥@rerutled
🎥@rerutled
We who fight for and have long wanted revolution always say that at its heart, revolution is to imagine the impossible.
We’re not living through a revolution but a pandemic.
So now what do we do with “impossible”?
We’re not living through a revolution but a pandemic.
So now what do we do with “impossible”?
In my latest book #7NecessarySins for Women and Girls, the chapter on the “sin” of violence frightens people. I’m told: “Violence begets violence!” What do centuries of male violence vs women beget?
On misogynist violence and #COVID19
🎥 @rerutled
On misogynist violence and #COVID19
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Here are the opening pages of that chapter. My book came out in Sept. 2019.
The disturbing scenarios I draw and the disturbing questions I ask in FEMINIST GIANT Dispatch ☝🏽are even more pertinent now under #COVID19 lockdown.
#7NecessarySins
The disturbing scenarios I draw and the disturbing questions I ask in FEMINIST GIANT Dispatch ☝🏽are even more pertinent now under #COVID19 lockdown.
#7NecessarySins
People get more upset at my questions about imaginary violence vs men than they are at the REAL and DAILY violence vs women, queer people, children.
Remember this as we hear stories of women having to choose: a deadly virus outside, an abuser inside. #COVID19
Remember this as we hear stories of women having to choose: a deadly virus outside, an abuser inside. #COVID19
In my book #7NecessarySins for Women and Girls, the chapter on the “sin” of violence frightens people. I’m told: “Violence begets violence!” What do centuries of male violence vs women beget?
🎥 @rerutled
#COVIDー19
🎥 @rerutled
#COVIDー19
How many abusive men must we kill until men stop abusing us?
My question about imaginary violence vs men upsets more the REAL & DAILY violence vs women, queer people, children.
A deadly virus outside, an abuser inside. #COVID19
🎥 @rerutled
My question about imaginary violence vs men upsets more the REAL & DAILY violence vs women, queer people, children.
A deadly virus outside, an abuser inside. #COVID19
🎥 @rerutled
The only form of “resistance” women are allowed to consider is anger - and even that is considered so beyond the beyond that entire books are written about it. Still - book after book is written about “women’s anger.”
FUCK THAT SHIT
#COVID19
FUCK THAT SHIT
#COVID19
In Nov, an episode of Australian show Q&A was banned from rebroadcast. Among reasons: I asked “how many rapists must we kill before men stop raping women?” Women are terrorized at home during #COVID19 lockdowns. Imaginary violence vs men shocks more than actual violence vs women
“How long must we wait for men and boys to stop murdering us, to stop beating us and to stop raping us? How many rapists must we kill?"
Remember: a TV episode was BANNED from rebroadcast in Australia in 2019 because,among other reasons, I asked those Qs
Remember: a TV episode was BANNED from rebroadcast in Australia in 2019 because,among other reasons, I asked those Qs
Patriarchy is the oldest form of occupation. Liberation movements throughout history have used violence vs colonizers and occupiers. Why can’t women?
From chapter on Violence in my book #7NecessarySins
From chapter on Violence in my book #7NecessarySins
I want to always be “bold,” “rampaging” and “far past the edge of mainstream feminism,” as this Publishers Weekly review describes The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls. publishersweekly.com/978-0-8070-138… #7NecessarySins
The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls came out seven months ago and I’m as excited about it as I was when I made this on that day it came out! #7NecessarySins
🎥 @rerutled
🎥 @rerutled
The opening of The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls, my instruction manual for destroying patriarchy. #7NecessarySins
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🎥 @rerutled
In Nov, an episode of Australian show Q&A was banned from rebroadcast. Among reasons: I asked “how many rapists must we kill before men stop raping women?” Women are terrorized at home during #COVID19 lockdowns. Imaginary violence vs men shocks more than actual violence vs women
In my latest book #7NecessarySins, the chapter on the “sin” of violence frightens people. I’m told: “Violence begets violence!” What do centuries of male violence vs women beget?
Here are the opening pages of that chapter. My book came out in Sept. 2019
#COVID19
Here are the opening pages of that chapter. My book came out in Sept. 2019
#COVID19
People are more upset at my questions about imaginary violence vs men than they are at the REAL and DAILY violence vs women, queer people, children. Remember this as we hear stories of women having to choose: a deadly virus outside, an abuser inside. #COVID19
In my #7NecessarySins, the chapter on the “sin” of violence frightens people. I’m told: “Violence begets violence!” What do centuries of male violence vs women beget? Patriarchy is the oldest form of occupation. Liberation movements use sviolence vs colonizers. Why can’t women?
People have a right to resist colonization and occupation. I ask in the chapter on Violence:
- can women - whose participation in liberation movements is often erased when history is written - use violence to liberate themselves from their “comrades?” #7NecessarySins
- can women - whose participation in liberation movements is often erased when history is written - use violence to liberate themselves from their “comrades?” #7NecessarySins
In other words: can women resist patriarchy?
The reactions to the questions I ask in the chapter on Violence make clear: NO.
People are more upset at my questions about imaginary violence vs men than they are at the REAL and DAILY violence vs women, queer people, children
The reactions to the questions I ask in the chapter on Violence make clear: NO.
People are more upset at my questions about imaginary violence vs men than they are at the REAL and DAILY violence vs women, queer people, children
Here are the various ways you can buy my latest book The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls #7NecessarySins
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Dedication #7NecessarySins
Blurbs #7NecessarySins
