Thread by @Margueritestern

✍️ I’m writing from the psychiatric hospital. It’s been a week that I’m there, and a month that I’m under medicine following several “panic attacks” as doctors name it.

For two years now, I permanently live under death threats, harassment and cancel culture after I declared that women are victims of a sex based oppression. And I’ll continue to stand up. As I told @bindelj few months ago, I have nothing left to lose.
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I went through many difficult things in my life : I lost my friends from Charlie Hebdo in a terrorist attack, I’ve been jailed in Tunisia after a Femen protest, I was -like many other women- raped.
But what I’m living for 2 years now is by far the hardest.

And now, it’s like if all the pain and all the fears that I tried to deny (even though I never stopped to denounce it), are coming up in my face and I can’t ignore it anymore. The anxiety became so big that I can’t escape it anymore. And it’s soooo painful and scary.

It’s a huge effort for me to write this thread and I would not be able to do it without anxiolytics that I take to survive.
But I m doing it because I feel the need to say the truth : yes TRA succeeded. They succeeded to destroy me. Their methods work.

👉 I want to say to those who sent me insults and death threats, to those who throw eggs on my face and beat me during a feminist protest, to the journalists who are calling me “TERF” in their articles,

to those who destroyed the HQ of our feminist group @l_amazone_ and painted dicks and insults on the walls where we used to write messages in memory of women murdered by their husbands, to those who are harassing my friends and the people who follow me on the social networks,

to those who used the movement “collage feminicide” that I created to fight against feminicides, to promote hate against women with such messages like “burn the TERF”,

to those who wrote a book about this movement that I created, but deny the fact that I’m the one who created it just because you think I’m a “TERF”, to all of you, I want to say one thing : YOU SUCCEEDED.

YES YOUR METHODS ARE WORKING. YES HARASSING A WOMAN EVERY DAY, CANCELING HER AND THROWING EGGS ON HER CAN SEND HER TO THE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL.
SO STOP TO CALL IT “FEMINISM” because it will never be. You’re just using the same old technics that always worked to destroyed women.

I’m not writing that I m in a psychiatric hospital to make a sort of blackmail suicide. I will never give you this pleasure. I will heal myself, get better and come back.

I’m writing this because I don’t want to hide the truth, I don’t want to feel ashamed. Since psychatric hospitals exist, they have always been full of women called “hysterical” or “crazy” who were in fact victims of male violence. I’m just one of them.