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In the chapter on Ambition in The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls, I examine what ambition is liberated from patriarchy, racism, and capitalism. What is ambition for a woman of colour? A poor woman? A woman whose goal is not to become rich or a CEO? #7necessarysins
What is ambition liberated from patriarchy, racism, classism? What is work? What is success? #7necessarysins
I ask what is ambition liberated from a corporate paradigm? Does ambition exist without “work?” And who determines what work is worthy of ambition? #7necessarysins
I share the ☝🏽because I just read @Anthony1983 Instagram post about how being a poet means for him being at peace with misalignment with conventional notions of success. Yes! #7necessarysins
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Mona Eltahawy
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I want to be free.
- I don’t want to be liked
- I don’t want to be “equal”
- Fuck civility
- Fuck unity
- Fuck the patriarchy
#2020
I want to be free
- I’m not doing those 2009/2019 things
- I don’t care about where I was
- I care about where I am
- I care about where I want to go
- Fuck the patriarchy
#2020
I want to be free
- Defy
- Disobey
- Disrupt
- Fuck the patriarchy
That’s my #2020 Vision
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Mona Eltahawy
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I have zero patience for fucked up questions during Q&A at my events. I will shut you up and I will tell you to sit down. Here’s video via @Alexoby4
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As I keep saying: the real profanity is rape and sexual assault, not my saying “fuck.” I am an intentionally profane woman and my political use of profanity often illuminates the hypocrisy of misogynists: that they’re more outraged at “fuck” than at assault
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Mona Eltahawy
@monaeltahawy
“posturing feminist firebrand.”

I especially relish garbage publication PJ media’s claim that my beating the fuck out of a man who sexually assaulted me in a #Montreal club was “apocryphal.” His face and my knuckles would disagree. #IBeatMyAssulter

h/t @rerutled
Remember that just 10 days ago, same garbage PJ Media wrote another piece about me in which they actually - tellingly - called feminism a “terrorist movement.”
“misandrist waffle”

I should put together an anthology called “Men Terrified of Mona.” This is from a couple of days ago from “Conservative Woman.”
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Andreia Nobre #GenderFree🏁
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Ok, let's get this started! I'm trying to raise awareness of issues that only affect female bodies. I'll bring links to more info on each issue. I will start from what are considered big issues that barely anyone seems to care at all. Let's do it!
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The room is packed, the noise is deafening.

The Women's Liberation Movement is very much alive!

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Non mais alors laaaaaa ce texte d'introduction 🤣🤣🤣 "Elles sont militantes, se disent journalistes et sèment une forme de terreur dans la vie médiatique et politique. Enquête sur le féminisme français contemporain, coalition des aigreurs."
So let me post this here while I'm at it... From @monaeltahawy upcoming book THE SEVEN NECESSARY SINS FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS @BeaconPressBks - from the chapter 1 on #Anger ⤵️
"It is definitely an indication of just how much patriarchy fears the power of anger in girls. And that is exactly what I want us to teach girls: that their anger terrifies patriarchy. In that case, let it be terrified." —@monaeltahawy (#TheSevenNecessarySinsforWomenandGirls)
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Today we celebrate the International Women's Day. Women from the continent are hardly given the respect and honour they deserve. We will celebrate women across the continent and what they've done and how they have influenced the world around them.
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So.

Time for something a little different, and an idea I’ve been toying with—a look at how #transphobes try to frame their narrative within a claim that they are only “concerned” about trans people existing.

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Girls play D&D.
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#Girls #play #dnd.
Wow. I'm blown away by the response! I want to echo the point that has been made about how long somebody has played being irrelevant, whether its 20 years, 10 years, or 5 months. I've played with many women and girls over the years and have loved having them at my table!
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