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11 Oct, 7 tweets, 3 min read
I’m 53yo. A couple of years ago, I was “I’m going to miss my period! I’ve had it monthly since I was 11.5yo. Aww!”

Now: I am “For fuck’s sake! I’m too old for this! How can it be so heavy?!Go already!”

#JoysOfPerimenopause
I was going to write my period a letter, all loving and stuff. All about how besides my family, my period and I have had the longest relationship etc etc.

Now I want to write the breakup letter.

#JoysOfPerimenopause
Every time I think “Ok. That’s a long stretch without a period. I’m there! I’m there!” the sneaky fucker is back.

I can almost hear it: “I’m baaaaaaack! Ha!”

I will something very soon for FEMINIST GIANT (link in my bio and pinned tweet).
* That’s I will write something for FEMINIST GIANT Newsletter soon
How To Break Up With Your Period

#JoysOfPerimenopause
I highly highly recommend you listen to @Osunsweetnsour’s Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause. I was thrilled to be on an episode of her powerful podcast stitcher.com/s?fid=400416
And look out for @heathercorinna’s book!

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12 Oct
I moved to the US in 2000. I’ve learned that many white Americans have a delusional amount of confidence in their govt & its institutions.They’re childishly naive in believing institutions will save them from state power which they think will work for them feministgiant.substack.com/p/if-amy-coney…
That stubborn belief in U.S. exceptionalism undergirds the refusal to see the fascism that Trump brought. Black, Indigenuous, and people of colour have no such delusions. They do not expect institutions to protect them because they are so often hurt by those institutions.
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12 Oct
Will the Democrats have the spine to deny quorum by not showing up? #AmyConeyBarrett
“Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer indicated on Sunday that Democrats will ‘not supply the quorum’ needed for the vote in the committee and the full Senate, hoping to delay the proceedings and force Republicans to delay a vote until after the election. 1/2
“But he said Democrats on the committee will attend the hearings, either in person or virtually.” google.com/amp/s/www.cbsn… #AmyConeyBarrett
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11 Oct
#AmyConeyBarrett’s confirmation hearing begins on Monday.

I wrote this: If Amy Coney Barrett was a Muslim. feministgiant.substack.com/p/if-amy-coney…
She is the logical conclusion to the theocracy that conservatives have worked for since the 1970s. A theocracy that too many were happy to ignore because it was white and Christian and not Saudi Arabia or Iran.

#AmyConeyBarrett
#AmyConeyBarrett is a Five-Star General of the Footsoldiers of the Patriarchy
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10 Oct
When I became a journalist in #Egypt 30yrs ago, I learned that victims of rape didn’t go to the police because the police would shoo them away or rape them because the women were considered “damaged goods anyway.” I wrote this about women speaking out now feministgiant.substack.com/p/why-do-they-…
Back in 1990, I was told that rape victims, if they were affluent, went to a psychiatrist in search of ways to not fall apart, to keep stitched tightly those seams of silence which are now bursting open in #Egypt.
At a feminist gathering in #Cairo in 2013 organized by a women’s group I worked with,a lawyer told us that a rape victim who did decide to go to the police could be locked up in a room at precinct for 24hrs to protect her from her family in case they tried to kill her from shame.
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10 Oct
#Egypt on Saturday began the trial of a former student of an elite university on charges of sexual assault of three minors, in a case that has launched a new wave of the #MeToo movement in the Arab world’s most populous country. google.com/amp/s/abcnews.…
The former student at the American University in Cairo was arrested in July after the allegations against him went viral, resulting in a firestorm on social media.
The trial opened amid tight security at a criminal court. The suspect could face up to life in prison if convicted.
The former student faces charges of blackmailing & sexually harassing the women, who were minors at the time of the crimes.According to accusations posted on social media, he would mine the pool of mutual friends on Facebook,online groups/school clubs,to target for sexual assault
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10 Oct
cw: vaw

Protests have been held in several cities in #Algeria to demand action to stop violence against women following the rape and murder of a teenager.

The charred body of Chaïma, 19, was found in a deserted petrol station in Thenia this month. bbc.com/news/world-afr…
There are also reports that the charred body of another woman was found in a forest overnight. #Algeria
Women held sit-in protests in #Algiers and #Oran, chanting Chaïma's first name and calling for an end to gender-based violence.

Activists also took to social media with the hashtag #JeSuisChaima (I am Chaïma). #Algeria
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