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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
“Write with your tongues of fire,” Gloria Anzaldúa.

Her words are the epigraph to my first book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution.

Tongue of Fire: Emma Goldman, Public Womanhood, and the Sex Question - I’m currently reading & will review soon
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Violence by men is taken seriously only when it’s directed against other men. Against women & at home?

The man who carried out #Canada’s worst mass shooting had been abusing his girlfriend. When alerted of that, the police didn’t care.

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Remember:
- not everyone can call the police.

- not everyone wants to call the police.

- the police do not protect everyone: ask Indigenous women, Black women, women of colour, marginalized women, sex workers, etc

- I do not want to be protected. I want to be free of violence
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Attention is power. When you command it, you command power, and so patriarchy has muddied the waters around attention w/the word “whore.” A word intended to shame is used to convince women that to want attention is to want something shameful. Much like sex
In The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls - from where the above comes - I go on to explain how heteronormative patriarchy determines who deserves attention and sex. And why “whore” is central to that. #7NecessarySins
The most subversive thing a woman can do is to talk about her life as if it really matters. It does. #7NecessarySins
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