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It's my birthday at the end of this month. My gift to myself will be more tattoos.
I got my first tattoos at a traumatic time. They were a gift to me for surviving. A form of deliberate beauty that could not be stolen from me.
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I got my first tattoos at a traumatic time. They were a gift to me for surviving. A form of deliberate beauty that could not be stolen from me.
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These were my first two tattoos--right arm in 2012 and left in 2013 #DeliberateBeauty 
As I tour the Queens of Egypt exhibit, which includes Nefertiti, here’s my recent essay about The Beautiful One.
Essay: Perimenopausal Nefertiti and my Beautiful Belly , by @monaeltahawy feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
Essay: Perimenopausal Nefertiti and my Beautiful Belly , by @monaeltahawy feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
Men and women of all social classes - were wearing eyeliner as early as 6000 BC.
Several examples of kohl tubes, including this one inscribed with the names of Akhenaten’s parents, the in-laws of Nefertiti: Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye feministgiant.com/p/deliberate-b…
Several examples of kohl tubes, including this one inscribed with the names of Akhenaten’s parents, the in-laws of Nefertiti: Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye feministgiant.com/p/deliberate-b…
The ancient Egyptian word for “makeup palette” derives from the word meaning “to protect.” My ancestors believed Kohl eyeliner protected them against the harsh sunlight or the Evil Eye. feministgiant.com/p/deliberate-b… #DeliberateBeauty
My favourite part of the day: holding a brush in one hand and a pot of eyeliner in the other as I apply the colour of the day around my eyes.
As I hold that brush, I feel like a calligrapher, writing a letter of love to myself. 📷 @rerutled
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As I hold that brush, I feel like a calligrapher, writing a letter of love to myself. 📷 @rerutled
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I consider my handiwork both homage and healing.
Homage because (of course) my people of Egypt - men and women of all social classes - were wearing eyeliner as early as 6000 BC.
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Homage because (of course) my people of Egypt - men and women of all social classes - were wearing eyeliner as early as 6000 BC.
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Being a writer, I am particularly delighted that the hieroglyphic term for makeup artist derives from the root “sesh,” which translates to write or engrave.
The ancient Egyptian word for “makeup palette” derives from the word meaning “to protect.”
#DeliberateBeauty
The ancient Egyptian word for “makeup palette” derives from the word meaning “to protect.”
#DeliberateBeauty
The hieroglyphic term for makeup artist derives from the root “sesh,” which translates to write/engrave. As I hold the liner brush, I feel like a calligrapher, writing a letter of love to myself. 📷 @rerutled
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A letter that connects me to a heritage extending millenia before me: men and women of all social classes were wearing eyeliner in Egypt as early as 6000 BC for adornment and protection, for this life and the life to come. I explain feministgiant.com/p/deliberate-b…
The ancient Egyptian word for “makeup palette” derives from the word meaning “to protect.” They believed Kohl eyeliner protected them vs the harsh sunlight or the Evil Eye; I believe the eyeliner I apply every day protects me vs the harsh days of pandemic and perimenopause.
I publish my weekly essays for FEMINIST GIANT on Sunday. Here are the past month's:
"They said, ‘You are a savage and dangerous woman.'
I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous," Nawal El Saadawi, the Egyptian feminist who died last week.
"They said, ‘You are a savage and dangerous woman.'
I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous," Nawal El Saadawi, the Egyptian feminist who died last week.
"The world is full of sexually frustrated women who are are taught, and obey, that they must wait until they are married (to a man) to have sex, and yet I’m unaware of any massacres committed by those women." On the Atlanta terrorist
Feminism is not: supporting a woman simply because she is a woman, especially when her vote hurts mostly Black, Indigenous and women of colour. On #BespokeFeminism, which is tailored to perfectly fit just the individual wearing it.
In 2011 when my arms were both casts, unable to do simplest of things for myself & adrift in a bottomless pit of grief, I felt I'd been robbed of beauty. I could present my 2 broken arms & say “Here are my wounds” but what to point to in explaining what trauma had robbed from me.
Beauty, it had stolen beauty. And so bit by bit I rebuilt it.
After a visit to the orthopedic surgeon’s clinic, I would find a nearby nail salon and get my nails manicured and painted green and tweet the pictures - complete with a cast covering half of my hands.
After a visit to the orthopedic surgeon’s clinic, I would find a nearby nail salon and get my nails manicured and painted green and tweet the pictures - complete with a cast covering half of my hands.
Here I am, my green nails said. One step in front of another trying to walk forward to beauty: “listen I love you joy is coming.” (See Kim Addonizio poem in essay)
I was building what I call Deliberate Beauty feministgiant.com/p/deliberate-b…
I was building what I call Deliberate Beauty feministgiant.com/p/deliberate-b…
