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Mona Eltahawy
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At her sentencing for harassing #Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni, feminist academic & activist Dr. Stella Nyanzi -who appeared via a screen - staged a nude protest & shouted “fuck you fuck you.” She is a revolutionary engaging in the “radical rudeness” of anti-colonial activists
#FF @RosebellK who has been covering Stella Nyanzi’s trial.
And here’s background on Stella Nyanzi #FreeStellaNyanzi #PushforStellaNyanzi #Uganda
This is the poem which landed Stella Nyanzi in prison. She posted it on Facebook to coincide with the birthday of Museveni who has ruled for +30yrs africanexponent.com/post/10524-the… h/t @rerutled #FreeStellaNyanzi #RadicalRudeness
Yoweri, they say it was your birthday yesterday.

How bitterly sad a day!

I wish the smelly and itchy cream-coloured candida festering in Esiteri's cunt had suffocated you to death during birth.

- Stella Nyanzi

#FreeStellaNyanzi #RadicalRudeness
Yoweri, they say it was your birthday yesterday!

How morbidly grave a day!

I wish that Esiteri's cursed genitals had pushed out a monstrously greenish-bluish still-birth.

You should have died at birth, you dirty delinquent dictator...

- Stella Nyanzi
#FreeStellaNyanzi
Stella Nyanzi “is known to deploy radical rudeness to disrupt and challenge power – be it political or social.” To mark her 45th birthday on June 16, which she spent in prison for the poem she wrote 👆🏽she wrote 45 Poems for Freedom collection. Read this africanfeminism.com/women-shall-no…
Women shall no longer wait for timid men

To fight for the liberation of Uganda

We pack missiles in our own pens and grenades in our mouths

And shoot our truths at the dictatorship

- Stella Nyanzi
#FreeStellaNyanzi #RadicalRudeness
h/t @AfriFeminists
These words here!

“We pack missiles in our own pens and grenades in our mouths.

And shoot our truths at the dictatorship.”

Stella Nyanzi is a revolutionary.

#FreeStellaNyanzi #RadicalRudeness
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Mona Eltahawy
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When she shouted “Fuck you. Fuck your. Fuck you!” at her sentencing hearing today, #Ugandan feminist Dr. Stella Nyanzi reminded us: fewer people are as expert as her at disrupting patriarchal authority w/power of her words. She is the star of the Profanity chapter in my new book
Profanity is an essential tool in disrupting patriarchy and its rules. It is the verbal equivalent of civil disobedience. And Stella Nyanzi demolishes “politeness” and “respectability” used as straitjackets against us. She is radically and consciously rude
My new book via @BeaconPressBks begins with profanity. I revel in being deliberately and consciously profane. As I recorded the audiobook, I reveled in every “fuck” I wrote! #WhyISayFuck
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Mona Eltahawy
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- It’s my birthday.
- I’m a Leo
- I’m loud and don’t give a fuck.
📷 @rerutled
Background:
This year:

#FuckThePatriarchy while #BeingFabulous

📷 @rerutled
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Mona Eltahawy
@monaeltahawy
#Ugandan feminist academic Dr. Stella Nyanzi has been found guilty of harassing President Yoweri Museveni. In a poem she posted on Facebook, she wrote about the president's late mother's vagina and wished Museveni had been poisoned in the birth canal.

bbc.in/2YvnH9R
Stella Nyanzi owned and took pride in offending dictator Museveni. Stella Nyanzi is a revolutionary.

#Ugandan feminist @RosebellK live tweeted Stella Nyanzi’s verdict hearing today and filmed Nyanzi’s powerful and defiant words.
Watch this: “I planned to offend Yoweri Museveni Kaguta because he has offended us for 30 plus years,” Stella Nyanzi via @tumwesigye_ #Uganda #PushForStellaNyanzi
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the buhungiro
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Heavy police deployments at Buganda Road Magistrates Court today.
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We continue to #WeaponizetheVagina

Magistrate Kamasanyu is expected to deliver ruling today.
Full court room as all wait for Mgr. Kamasanyu to deliver her ruling the case where Dr. Stella Nyanzi is charged with insulting the person on the president using obscene, lewd and indecent language.
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WATCH: Due to the Magistrate’s delay to show up, the people have decided to sing the Uganda National Anthem until she enters the court.

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📽🔴 #Honduras Coup ?
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the buhungiro
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Proceedings from Friday’s cross examination of ASP Bill Ndyamuhaki by Adv. Derrick Bazekuketta, Legal Expert on Computer and the Law.

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HAPPENING NOW:
Cross examination of ASP Bill Ndyamuhaki continues by Adv. Isaac Ssemakadde.

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Dr. Stella Nyanzi is back at Buganda Road Magistrates Court for the cross examination of ASP Bill Ndyamuhaki, the State witness.
Mr. Ndyamuhaki is a digital forensic analyst with @PoliceUg’s Cyber Crimes Unit.

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We are at Buganda Road Magistrates Court, court room no. 4. Mgr. Kamasanyu. Dr. Stella Nyanzi’s case is expected to be heard in Court Room No. 1.
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@drstellanyanzi, a queer feminist writer, activist and research fellow at the Makerere Institute for Social Research is charged under Sections 24(1) & 24(2)(a) of Uganda’s Computer Misuse Act, 2011 for allegedly publishing Facebook posts with “obscene, lewd or indecent” language.
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