Thread by @monaeltahawy

FEMINIST GIANT Dispatches from the Pandemic: Dispatch #7

Vaccine

We all want a vaccine vs #COVID19. Where is the vaccine vs the older global pandemic of patriarchal violence? Women, children, queer people are in lockdown w/ abusers.

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FEMINIST GIANT Dispatches from the Pandemic: Dispatch #2

The economy

“GOP congressman says letting more Americans die of coronavirus is lesser of two evils compared to economy tanking.”

Whose “economy?”Who benefits from that “economy?”

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FEMINIST GIANT Dispatches from the Pandemic: Dispatch #4

What is impossible?

#Covid_19 is making it clear that many things we were told were impossible are in fact not. #Feminist revolution fights to make the impossible possible!

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FEMINIST GIANT Dispatches from the Pandemic: Dispatch #1

Privilege

If #COVID19 is your first curfew, lockdown, shelter-in-place: you are privileged. For many who have gone through crises and wars, this is retraumatizing.

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FEMINIST GIANT Dispatches from the Pandemic: Dispatch #3

Sadness

I’m sad. Alive, and sad. I acknowledge the immense sadness that so many of us feel because of #COVID19.

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FEMINIST GIANT Dispatches from the Pandemic: Dispatch #6

Doors.

#COVID19 has many of us behind closed doors - lockdowns, quarantines, etc. This time is also one of transition. When we open the doors, it must be to a better world.

🎥 @rerutled

FEMINIST GIANT Dispatches from the Pandemic: Dispatch #5

Joy!

The importance of finding joy in #COVID19. Joy as a foundation and goal of #Feminism.

Painting: Nadine Faraj
Song: Mahragan Bent El Geran - Hassan Shakoush, Omar Kamal

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