Thread by @monaeltahawy

The backdrop to the feminist revolution in #Egypt: The regime is itself predatory.

President Sisi was head of military intelligence when the military subjected female protestors to “virginity tests.” Women who expose sexual assault/harassment are jailed, not their predators.

In recent weeks, at least 2 young women who have massive followings on TikTok and a dancer were arrested and charged with “inciting debauchery and violating family values.” For social media posts.
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It’s instructive how patriarchy always looks for ways to punish and silence women.

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When the regime itself sexually assaults women, it sends a green light: women’s bodies can be targets and no one will be held accountable.

I have been waiting for the feminist revolution since the military sexually assaulted women.

I wrote this in 2011 google.com/amp/s/amp.theg…

There was more outrage over a woman who posted a nude picture of herself on her blog than at the military for sexually assaulting women via “virginity tests.” i wrote this in 2011 google.com/amp/s/amp.theg… #EgyptianWomenRevolt #بداية_ثورة_نسوية

If "good girls" in headscarves who kept their legs together only to be violated by the military speak out and no one listens, what's the message being sent?

Aliaa Mahdy, fed up with hypocrisy and sexual repression, undressed. She was the Molotov cocktail thrown at the dictators of our mind, which insists that revolutions can’t succeed without a tidal wave of cultural changes that upend misogyny & sexual hypocrisy #EgyptianWomenRevolt

Aliaa Mahdy is the woman in the painting behind me in all my videos. It is Nadine Faraj. Here is what I wrote about her in Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution. #EgyptianWomenRevolt
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“...undress and stand before a mirror and burn your bodies that you despise to forever rid yourselves of your sexual hangups before you direct your humiliation and chauvinism and dare to try to deny me my freedom of expression,” Aliaa Mahdy, 20yo in 2011 #EgyptianWomenRevolt

Her portrait is by my dear friend and great artist Nadine Faraj 📷 @rerutled

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The feminist revolution in #Egypt must overthrow the dictator in the presidential palace, on the street corner, and in the home. It has a revolution against the misogyny of the State, the Street, and the Home. That’s what my first book in 2015 is about. #EgyptianWomenRevolt

From 2015: Until the rage shifts from the oppressors in our presidential palaces to the oppressors on our streets and in our homes, our revolution hasn’t even begun. #EgyptianWomenRevolt #بداية_ثورة_نسوية

I have been writing about #Egypt since 1990. I am 52. I have seen and written about women speaking out before. I have never seen this many say ENOUGH to sexual violence and abuse. google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…
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Women - our rage, our tenacity, our daring and our audacity - will free #Egypt.

It’s time for Headscarves and Hymens: The Sexual Revolution is Here

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Welcome the feminist revolution in #Egypt.

I own my body is a revolutionary statement. I own my body: not the State, the Street, the Home. Not the mosque or the church.

Consent and agency are the beating heart of every revolution.

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The background to these past few days in #Egypt google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.… #EgyptianWomenRevolt
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