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I was sexually assaulted twice during Hajj in 1982. I was 15 years old. I started #MosqueMeToo in 2018 after a Pakistani Muslim woman called Sabica Khan said she'd been in sexually assaulted during pilgrimage.
I wrote about being sexually assaulted during Hajj in my 2015 book and 2019 book and this in 2018 about #MosqueMeToo washingtonpost.com/news/global-op…
I was the first person to speak about being sexually assaulted during Hajj, in Arabic on #Egyptian primetime TV in 2013. #MosqueMeToo
I am seeing #MosqueMeToo making the rounds. I send love and solidarity to all sharing their stories of sexual assault. I know it’s not easy. 💜✊🏽❤️
Here’s more about #MosqueMeToo and #IBeatMyAssaulter
In this interview, I tell @laignee that I started #MosqueMeToo to talk about being sexually assaulted at Hajj when I was 15, and why I started #IBeatMyAssaulter after I beat up a man who sexually assaulted me at a club when I was 50
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I often say Muslim women are caught between a rock (Islamophes and racists) and a hard place (community misogynists) and to both I say a big FUCK YOU. This is a horrendous reminder npr.org/2021/04/15/984… h/t @weddady
"Shibly's critics say his alleged actions were shrouded by a culture of silence, rooted partly in Muslim taboos about discussing personal scandals and partly out of fear that the fallout would fuel vicious anti-Muslim hostility."
"When your community is being attacked and diminished and demeaned every single day...it's difficult to invite even more of that," Laila Abdelaziz, who worked under Hassan Shibly at the CAIR Florida chapter. She resigned in 2016 in part because Shibly sexually harassed her.
After I explained to a club manager why I’d beaten up a man who sexually assaulted me, the manager looked at my Beloved and asked me “Why didn’t you let your husband take care of it?”
I almost beat him up too. feministgiant.com/p/i-beat-my-as…
I almost beat him up too. feministgiant.com/p/i-beat-my-as…
I don’t want to be protected. I just want patriarchy to stop protecting and enabling men.
I don’t want to be protected. I want to be free.
How long must we wait until men stop beating and murdering us, even under lockdown?
From April 🎥 @rerutled
I don’t want to be protected. I want to be free.
How long must we wait until men stop beating and murdering us, even under lockdown?
From April 🎥 @rerutled
This is a 14 minute clip that explains what my book The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls is all about, including why I started #IBeatMyAssaulter, #MosqueMeToo, and #WhyISayFuck via @YouTube
My essay on #IBeatMyAssaulter and #MosqueMeToo
I Beat My Assaulter, And It Was Fucking Glorious feministgiant.com/p/i-beat-my-as…
I Beat My Assaulter, And It Was Fucking Glorious feministgiant.com/p/i-beat-my-as…
Three years ago today, I was icing my knuckles because I’d beaten the fuck out of a man who had groped me in a club a couple of nights before. I wrote about it in my new essay feministgiant.com/p/i-beat-my-as… 📷 @rerutled #IBeatMyAssaulter 
After I explained to a club manager what had happened, he ooked at my Beloved and asked me “Why didn’t you let your husband take care of it?” I almost beat him up too.
“First of all, he’s not my husband. Also, this is my body, I take care of it.” feministgiant.com/p/i-beat-my-as…
“First of all, he’s not my husband. Also, this is my body, I take care of it.” feministgiant.com/p/i-beat-my-as…
Patriarchy enables and protects men who sexually assault women, and it demands that only other men “protect” us.
As long as we obey and behave in ways it approves of, of course. Protection is conditional.Because if we disobey, ha! I don't want to be protected. I want to be free
As long as we obey and behave in ways it approves of, of course. Protection is conditional.Because if we disobey, ha! I don't want to be protected. I want to be free
I launched #IBeatMyAssaulter after I tracked down the man who groped me in a club, shoved him, sat on him and I punched, and I punched, and I punched his face. And I spent the weekend icing my knuckles and it was well worth it! 📷 @rerutled
Just days before, I had launched another viral hashtag: #MosqueMeToo. I explain 🎥 @rerutled
Read the whole thing in my mew essay: I Beat My Assaulter, And It Was Fucking Glorious
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Read, retweet, subscribe!
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Three years ago this week, I beat up a man who groped me in a club. It was fucking glorious. Celebrate that anniversary with me!
feministgiant.com/p/i-beat-my-as… #IBeatMyAssaulter
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I’ve lost count of the # times I’ve been sexually assaulted and I know that my reactions have spanned a spectrum, all of them valid. That night it was: Are you fucking kidding me? And my body went into autodrive; it knew exactly what to do.
Tell me your #IBeatMyAssaulter stories
Tell me your #IBeatMyAssaulter stories
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The chapter on Violence is one of the reasons this episode of an #Australian TV show was banned. In 2019. Banned.
“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?"
“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?"
How many rapists must we kill before men stop raping women?
And why is the first half of that question more disturbing than the second half? Why is hypothetical violence against men more disturbing than actual daily violence against women?
And why is the first half of that question more disturbing than the second half? Why is hypothetical violence against men more disturbing than actual daily violence against women?
So! Sign up and this Friday read from the chapter that so upset Australians that one of their TV networks pulled an episode of a show. In fucking 2019, for fucks sake
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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
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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
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The very first FEMINIST GIANT Dispatch, February 2019.
The story behind why I launched #MosqueMeToo and #WhyIBeatMyAssaulter:
Touch me without my consent and I will break your fucking hand.
🎥 @rerutled
The story behind why I launched #MosqueMeToo and #WhyIBeatMyAssaulter:
Touch me without my consent and I will break your fucking hand.
🎥 @rerutled
Muslim women are caught between a rock & a hard place:
Rock: collective of racists and Islamophobes who are eager to demonize all Muslim men.
Hard place: Muslim community that is eager to defend all Muslim men.
Neither truly care about Muslim women.
Fuck the rock & hard place
Rock: collective of racists and Islamophobes who are eager to demonize all Muslim men.
Hard place: Muslim community that is eager to defend all Muslim men.
Neither truly care about Muslim women.
Fuck the rock & hard place
Fuck the rock and fuck the hard place.
Why I started #MosqueMeToo
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Why I started #MosqueMeToo
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Fuck the rock and hard place.
Why I started #MosqueMeToo and #IBeatMyAssaulter
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Why I started #MosqueMeToo and #IBeatMyAssaulter
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Why I started #MosqueMeToo washingtonpost.com/news/global-op…
The very first FEMINIST GIANT Dispatch, February 2019. With captions.
The story behind why I launched #MosqueMeToo and #WhyIBeatMyAssaulter:
Touch me without my consent and I will break your fucking hand.
🎥 @rerutled
The story behind why I launched #MosqueMeToo and #WhyIBeatMyAssaulter:
Touch me without my consent and I will break your fucking hand.
🎥 @rerutled
I told @washingtonpost that not a single man has been arrested or put on trial as a result of #MosqueMeToo but that was never my goal when I launched it. My goal is achieved one woman at a time whenever a Muslim woman speaks out about her sexual assault washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
I was called a liar when I first spoke out about my sexual assault at hajj. Now, we are too many to be dismissed as liars.
This is the first ever FEMINIST GIANT Dispatch: about why I launched #MosqueMeToo and #IBeatMyAssaulter
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This is the first ever FEMINIST GIANT Dispatch: about why I launched #MosqueMeToo and #IBeatMyAssaulter
🎥 @rerutled
In addition to the shame that is unjustifiably flung at victims of sexual assault — a shame that had silenced me — Muslim women face another burden that discourages them from speaking out. They are caught between a rock and a hard place. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
After I beat up a man who groped me in a club, a manager pointed at @rerutled & asked me “Why didn’t you let your husband take care of it?”
Me: “He’s not my husband. This is my body. I take care of it.”
I don’t want to be protected. I want to be free.
Me: “He’s not my husband. This is my body. I take care of it.”
I don’t want to be protected. I want to be free.
I don’t want to be protected. I want patriarchy to stop protecting men who are violent towards women.
Patriarchy protects men who are violent towards women.
Patriarchy allows only men to “protect” women from other men.
Patriarchy punishes women who protect themselves.
Patriarchy protects men who are violent towards women.
Patriarchy allows only men to “protect” women from other men.
Patriarchy punishes women who protect themselves.
Patriarchy allows only men to both hurt and protect women because patriarchy socializes men in the belief that they own our bodies, are entitled to them.
I own my body.
I own my body.
I am fucking raging, RAGING, raging. All praise and power to my perimenopause.
And so I’m delighted that I’ve had two tweets about women saying FUCK THE PATRIARCHY go viral in the space of a week.
That’s where I am. Fuck. The. Patriarchy.
Don’t even *try* to look at me.
And so I’m delighted that I’ve had two tweets about women saying FUCK THE PATRIARCHY go viral in the space of a week.
That’s where I am. Fuck. The. Patriarchy.
Don’t even *try* to look at me.
All praise and power to my perimenopause that has unleashed a torrent of fire where I thought my rage once was.
Ha.
We’re just starting, fuckers.
Ha.
We’re just starting, fuckers.
Yesenia Zamudio: you are my sister and comrade #FuckThePatriarchy
I spoke with @LeilaEttachfini about the evolution of my feminism over the past decade, why I started #MosqueMeToo, and what I want feminism to be and to do in 2020 and the decade ahead:
Make patriarchy fear feminism!
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Make patriarchy fear feminism!
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Civility upholds those in power. I refuse to allow those who don't recognize my full humanity to expect politeness of me. The feminism I’m known for today is directly borne out of being assaulted by riot police in 2011 and targets other forms of oppression that bolster patriarchy
Q: So what would you like to see happen within the feminist movement in the next decade?
Last night after speaking re feminists in Arab Gulf states use online spaces, why I started #MosqueMeToo, and beginning as always with “fuck the patriarchy,” a man who claimed he stumbled into my talk by chance was 1st at mic to ask “Don’t you think your language is assault?”
I told him that was one of the most ridiculous questions I’d been asked and that I wouldn’t dignify his “When you say ‘fuck’ you assault us” nonsense. And I moved onto the next question. Zero fucking patience with fools and misogynists.
I had a white woman urge me as I signed her book in NYC not to “otherize” white women-told her to go talk with other white women. A white woman in Manchester who asked @helloiammariam at our event about “unity.” Mariam shut her down and I told her to leave.
Speaking here tomorrow: What does #MeToo look like beyond the boundaries of Europe & North America? This roundtable brings together feminist scholars and activists to discuss the different iterations of #MeToo in South Asia, East Asia, and the Arab world. as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as…
Participants: Zineb Belmkadem (#Masaktach, Morocco),Mona Eltahawy (#MosqueMeToo),Tejaswini Niranjana (Lingnan University, Hong Kong),Kyla Pasha & Sarah Suhail (The Feminist Collective, Pakistan). Moderated by Fawzia Afzal-Khan (Montclair State University) & Gayatri Gopinath (NYU)
This event is free & open to the public. Venue is wheelchair-accessible.
For more information about this event, contact the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality at csgsnyu@nyu.edu or 212-992-9540.
For more information about this event, contact the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality at csgsnyu@nyu.edu or 212-992-9540.
15yo; 50yo. In hijab; in a tank top. Sexually assaulted; sexually assaulted. I froze & burst into tears; I beat the fuck out of my assaulter...Moral of the story: touch me w/out my consent, I will break your fucking hand.
A year ago, I launched #MosqueMeToo and #IBeatMyAssaulter
A year ago, I launched #MosqueMeToo and #IBeatMyAssaulter
👆🏽FEMINIST GIANT Rants has launched!
For @TIME, I spoke to @laignee about why I launched #MosqueMeToo and #IBeatMyAssaulter google.com/amp/amp.timein…
“When he grabbed my ass, that is violence. When I punched him, that is self defense.”
Last February, I started #MosqueMeToo & #IBeatMyAssaulter in same week. Here’s excerpt of a video I made for @washingtonpost explaining the reasons. Grateful to women who shared their stories.
Last February, I started #MosqueMeToo & #IBeatMyAssaulter in same week. Here’s excerpt of a video I made for @washingtonpost explaining the reasons. Grateful to women who shared their stories.
You can watch the whole video here: If you grope me, I'll break your hand #MosqueMeToo #IBeatMyAssaulter
Starting this month, my goal is to record short videos - like first clip 👆🏽- that will be called FEMINIST GIANT Rants - lots of things coming up soon!
A yr ago, @sabicakhan95 shared her story of being sexually assaulted in Makkah, #Islam’s holiest site in #Saudi Arabia. It was familiar bec I’d often shared my own story of being sexually assaulted there. To show solidarity w/her & inspired by @TaranaBurke, I started #MosqueMeToo
Here’s the thread where I started #MosqueMeToo - that includes an article about @sabicakhan95. Thank you to all the Muslim women who so bravely shared their stories of being sexually assaulted while on Hajj/at sacred sites and who continue to do so
Thank you to all the women who shared their #MosqueMeToo story knowing they would be attacked and called a liar. Those of us who can speak, must speak for our own sake and to give strength to those who - for now - are unable to. Love and solidarity ❤️✊🏽💜
Glad #Saudi troll farms & their connection to Saudi regime have been studied. I’ve experienced plenty attacks for my writing on women’s issues in #Saudi & my opposition to #Yemen war: 1 of most coordinated came after #Jamalkhashoggi shared 1 of my articles nytimes.com/2018/10/20/us/…
In February, #JamalKhashoggi kindly shared the Arabic version of an oped I wrote for Washington Post about #MosqueMeToo which I started for Muslim women to talk about sexual harassment and assault in Sacred spaces, including Hajj in Makkah, #Saudi Arabia
Immediately after Jamal shared my column, i was inundated with one of the worst and most coordinated attacks by #Saudi regime trolls I have ever experienced. For days. It was a window into how much shit he and other Saudis who are critical got and continue to get.
Also, fyi, Neelofa and Vivy Yusof are not muslimah icons for empowerment. Successful and smart business women, yes, symbol of empowerment or muslimah icon, no. Lemme show u a list of muslim women who have inspired me and I think are actual icons of empowerment.
1. Fatima Mernissi (Sept '40-Nov 2015), muslim feminist and sociologist who questioned the role of muslim women in Islam, the lack of democracy in the succession of Islam, separating the structures of Islamic governments from what Islam actually teaches. Defo my feminist idol.
2. Zainah Anwar, one bold Muslim woman who basically asked, why are syariah courts in Malaysia treating women like crap? What kind of Islam are they practicing? Also the woman boss enough to wave her hand to prove a point to Nazri Aziz in front of photographers.
