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“My weapons are words,” Jill Nelson, was arrested by NYPD officers for scribbling “Trump=Plague” on a boarded-up storefront.

“I frankly feel, as an African American woman and a person of color,that it’s open season on us in every way”

h/t @SonofBaldwin

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Fuck this racism, #NYC #Covid_19
“...it’s open season on us in every way. From the disproportionate number of people who are dying of COVID-19, people with the worst healthcare, people who are doing the most vulnerable jobs, to young people beaten down for allegedly not social distancing” hyperallergic.com/562782/journal…
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Black #Brazilian women take bold action against gender-based violence.

As President Bolsonaro’s far-right government decimates state support, activists are stepping in to combat abuse during the coronavirus crisis. via @5050oD #COVID19
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“As children we learn to help each other, to be community-minded, understanding that the survival of another woman is our own survival,” says Aline Maia Nascimento from the Observatório de Favelas, a grassroots group in Rio de Janeiro. #Brazil
“...we are taking palliative action because the state is not showing up”

Under Bolsonaro’s far-right govt, critical social policies have been undermined & budgets to respond to violence vs women have been cut. Activists are doing the work of failed or dismantled institutions.
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Every Thursday, on Instagram Live, I read from my second book The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls. And I post clips of my favourite bits. This is from the chapter on Attention:

I am a whore. Become an attention whore.
I recorded the audiobook of The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls and also for my first book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Need a Sexual Revolution.

I read from the latter on Instagram Live on Tuesday.

I really enjoy the readings.

#MonaReads
It’s great to see the “audience” engage with my readings ❤️✊🏽💜 #7NecessarySins
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#Egyptian actor Hisham Selim revealed on TV that his child who was assigned female at birth had transitioned has been applauded on social media. He and his trans son Nour have been interviewed together. bbc.com/news/world-525… #LGBTQ
"Honestly, when thinking about it I thought, 'Thank God, it's not the other way around,'" Hisham Selim told DW Arabic.

Patriarchy always tears its fucking head:

Hisham Selim confessed that“his reaction might not have been the same if his son had wanted to identify as a woman”
Read this important analysis of the way Hisham Selim and #Egypt have reacted to the news of his trans son Nour: A ray of hope for the trans community, yet will we start seeing the forest for the trees? yallafeminists.home.blog/2020/05/11/a-r… #LGBTQ
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