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Their dismissal of me, as they demand to know why I’m not fighting FGM in Egypt & their use of a gif of a white suffragist being force fed as a stand-in for Egyptian women as a way to appeal to my fight, while ignoring suffragists’ racist exclusion of women of colour! Amazing!
A British transphobe sent me this, conveniently ignoring:
- the racist exclusion of women of colour by many in the suffragist movement
- there are trans and gender non-conforming people in Egypt as well as cis women who are oppressed by patriarchy.
I am a feminist whose goal is the destruction of patriarchy. That goal entails fighting misogyny as well as other oppressions utilized by patriarchy: Zero tolerance for sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, ableism, all bigotry.
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Mona Eltahawy
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- I am cis
- I do not speak for trans people
- I am not a “trans star” whatever the fuck that can mean for a cis woman
- I am a feminist who is an ally and pro-trans rights because that is the just position and because I want to destroy patriarchy and its hierarchy of oppressions
- I have a large platform and the least that I can do is to support the trans, non-binary & gender non-conforming communities.
- Those communities are among some of the most marginalized & maligned.
- Bigotry & violence targeting those communities is abhorrent & unacceptable.
- I don’t owe anyone a “debate.”
- The idea of cis people “debating” trans rights is as abhorrent as straight people debating gay/bisexual rights, white people debating rights of people of colour, non-disabled people debating disability rights.
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Mona Eltahawy
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Love and solidarity with all who’ve sent me support and all who’ve been fighting mostly white British transphobes who have been embarrassing themselves in my mentions for 3 days because I support trans and non-binary rights and because I insist feminism must be intersectional.
If you’ve followed me for a while you know I’m attacked by a new flavour of fuckery every other week-from Saudi & Egyptian regime trolls to white Australian misogynists to racists to Islamophobes & now making proud entrance as flavour of the week fuckery:white British “feminists”
These transphobes - vile, pathetic and poorly disguised racists - are exactly why “white feminism” is deservedly derided. They insist on centering themselves and insist that feminism revolve around the misogyny that touches only their lives. And fuck anyone else.
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Mona Eltahawy
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Detained US citizen Mustafa Kassem dies in #Egypt amid hunger strike.

Kassem died of heart failure following a hunger strike which the 54-year-old is believed to have started in September 2018. abcn.ws/2teMSQi via @ABC
On Aug. 14, 2013, the night before Kassem - a NYC can driver - was set to return to the U.S., he went out in #Cairo to exchange money and shop, when security officials detained him and accused him of participating in protests against a military takeover in a nearby square.
Kassem started his hunger strike after being convicted of trying to overthrow the government of #Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and sentenced to 15 years in jail in a mass trial with more than 700 co-defendants.
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A pocket of land between Egypt and Sudan, that both countries are not interested in it, has now announced that it is a new kingdom 1/
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Brian D. Earp
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L. Mosselmans on myths about #FGM/C at international experts meeting: Western media focuses on extreme cases, giving the impression that FGM/C is usually sexually disabling and associated with very poor quality of life. Yet this is not true for majority of women with FGM/C. "We
tend to think of all women with FGM/C as having horrible sex lives, and all women without FGM/C as having wonderful sex lives, but this is not the case; most women, with and without FGM/C, have sex lives somewhere in the middle." See ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17970975
"When we don't take care to ground our arguments in facts, we can't do our best research, and we can't help women in the most effective way" (paraphrased). "Be wary of seeing 'majority' of women with FGM/C ... this may mean 51%" or it may not be grounded at all.
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For all the #women who’ve ever felt disregarded, ignored, used, or silenced – you’re not alone.

It’s a #FolkloreThursday - #WomensDay story thread called

THE GOOSE GIRL
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IMAGE: Title card for "The Goose Girl", Robert Anning Bell, 1912
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GIGI: Mom, calm down.
Q: [sobbing] I JUST LOVE YOU SO MUCH
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EHSANI2
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3-Recall how after 09/11, democracy promotion became an instrument for combatting terrorism. G.W Bush : "It is the policy of the US to seek & support growth of democratic movements & institutions in every nation & culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world"
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5-Mubarak became aware of such activities w start of the uprising. He was livid when he found out of the US funding & called the Obama WH to furiously complain. The new Admin was largely unaware of the 5-6 year old State Dept initiative & funding (story from a private source)
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EHSANI2
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The Mideast is doomed. #Egypt alone needs to create 700,000 jobs EVERY SINGLE YEAR to absorb the new job seekers out its 98 million population. A third of this population already live below the poverty line (482 Egyptian Pound a month, which is less than $ 1 a day) ===>
2-The seeds of the #Viciouscircle that the Mideast region finds itself in today were planted at least 5 decades ago. Excessive public spending without matching revenues were the catalyst to a faulty & dangerous incentive system that helped to balloon populations beyond control
3-A governance system that was ostensibly put in place to help the poor ended up being a built-in factory for poverty generation. Excessive subsidies helped misallocate resources & mask the true cost of living for households. Correlation between family size and income was lost
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