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“Purity exams” aka “virginity tests” are still@legal and possible in the year 2019 in the USA. Fuck the patriarchy huffpost.com/entry/new-york…
“Our hymens are not ours. They belong to our families.” In my first book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (2015), I connect obsession with hymens & virginity in the Middle East w/the USA because patriarchy is universal.
How the actual fuck are “purity exams” still on the books ANYWHERE??! It’s TwentyFuckingNineteen!!

Fuck the patriarchy and its obsession with our cunts, vaginas, pussies and wombs.
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My sister-in-law - OB/GYN physician - just told me and my parents - retired medical doctors - about this and parents asked “Don’t they understand science?”
This is a procedure that does not exist in medical science. This is dangerous and willful ignorance theguardian.com/us-news/2019/n…
This is misogyny. This is barbarism. If you’ve ever wondered how far these misogynist shits will go to control women’s bodies: they will go even further than you’ve imagined. FUCK THE PATRIARCHY.
Remember this when you read about women in El Salvador imprisoned after miscarriage and when you read the constant news articles about misogynist horrors subjected onto women in Afghanistan. The white men who rule the USA are happily competing in the Patriarchy Olympics.
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I will keep asking this: how many rapists must we kill before men stop raping women?

DNA identified a serial predator. The law let him off the hook. motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
From the chapter Violence in my book The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls:

I am talking about the end of rape because men are sufficiently scared of women that they would never dare to rape or try to rape them.
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I insist we push the conversation until we get to the part where men fear women enough that rape becomes an anomaly. So how many rapists must we kill? And I don’t want the state to protect me because “protection” is conditional. I want to be free of patriarchy, not at its mercy.
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Relieved I was able to fly on Tuesday to be with my brother and his family for the holiday. This weather! Parents and sister and her husband drive to be with us tonight. It’s been a while and I’m grateful for this family reunion.
And after this short break with my family, I will see you next week #Soweto for @Abantu_! I am so excited! #abantubookfest
Since September, #FeministGiant World Tour has taken all over and I am grateful to all who came to see me speak and all who have bought The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls as well as Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution. More dates 2020!
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