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It is a fuck-this-shit moment for Egyptian women. And the rage and reckoning are the fuel of revolution. Not a cis-gender heterosexual dick-swinging revolution. We already had one of those almost 10 years ago.
A feminist revolution. feministgiant.com/p/why-do-they-…
A feminist revolution. feministgiant.com/p/why-do-they-…
The revolutions that began 10 years ago in the Middle East and North Africa might have been started by a man. They will be completed by women and queer people too often marginalized and ignored and subjected to violence by the State, Street and Home.
I wrote this in 2012. And I turned it into my first book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution to say that unless the rage shifts from the presidential palace to the Street and Home, the revolution has not started foreignpolicy.com/2012/04/23/why…
This week is 10th anniv of the Arab Spring, when #Tunisia rose up vs long-time dictator Ben Ali. Article soon but for now:
- In Tunisia, there was a fistfight in parliament after conservative lawmaker called single mothers "whores." Feminist protests vs him called "distractions"
- In Tunisia, there was a fistfight in parliament after conservative lawmaker called single mothers "whores." Feminist protests vs him called "distractions"
- In Saudi Arabia, feminist activist Loujain al-Hathloul is on trial in a terrorism court for campaigning for women's rights.
- In Palestine, the brothers and brother-in-law of a woman they beat to death last year for posting a picture with her fiance have just been released.
- In Palestine, the brothers and brother-in-law of a woman they beat to death last year for posting a picture with her fiance have just been released.
- In Egypt, a woman is being criminalized and threatened with jail for exposing her sexual harassment, female TiK Tok users are in prison for "violating family values" and witnesses in a gang rape case are in detention.
Fuck the patriarchy.
Fuck the patriarchy.
This coming week marks the 10th anniversary of #Tunisia's revolution. Women will finish what the "Arab Spring" began. I said that in 2012 bbc.com/news/av/world-… 
And I continue to say that in 2020 bbc.com/news/world-mid…
I have been calling for a feminist revolution in MidEast & NAfrica forever. In 2014, I made a BBC radio documentary with Gemma Newby on women & revolution with interviews with women from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Jordan bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02…
