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23 Oct, 7 tweets, 3 min read
The five interns who compile and write FEMINIST GIANT Global Roundup every Monday-Friday delight and inspire with the articles they include. Look at today’s roundup for example by Samiha Hossain!

Feminism is global and intersectional.

feministgiant.substack.com/p/global-round…
And this was Thursday’s Global Roundup by Lauren MacDonald feministgiant.substack.com/p/global-round…
I am delighted to have these younger feminists on board at FEMINIST GIANT Newsletter. Each one of them is in charge is one day per week.

Sahra compiles and writes Wednesday’s roundup.

feministgiant.substack.com/p/global-round…
Inaara Merani compiles and writes Tuesday’s Global Roundup feministgiant.substack.com/p/global-round…
And Miriam Batal compiles and writes Monday’s Global Roundup:

feministgiant.substack.com/p/global-round…
FEMINIST GIANT Newsletter is free because I want it to be accessible to everyone, esp now with #COVID19 - a fucking disaster for women around the world.

Click “Subscribe” & choose “None” for free email list -identical to paying list feministgiant.substack.com/p/coming-soon
At least once a week, I write an essay exclusive to FEMINIST GIANT Newsletter.

This is this week’s essay.

If you can pay, it will help me to keep the newsletter free.

feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-macho-…

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25 Oct
Amy Coney Barrett will be confirmed to the US Supreme Court on Monday, unless something outrageous happens to stop it.

With her confirmation, the US is on the threshold of a theocracy that conservatives have worked for since the 1970s feministgiant.substack.com/p/if-amy-coney… #AmyConeyBarrett
I moved to the U.S. in 2000. I’ve learned that many white Americans have a delusional amount of confidence in govt & its institutions. They’re childishly naive in believing that institutions will save them from state power, which they think will work for rather than hurt them.
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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25 Oct
Thank you feminism for making me rich 😂😂😂 And for giving me a pitch perfect bullshit detector. They call you stupid and expect you to be nice Tweet: Of course I’m not a ...Tweet: So stupid. She think...Tweet: This!! Even though I...Tweet: Not completely a big...
If any of my followers would like to be milked for money, there are links in my bio 😂😂😂
I mostly ignoring irrelevant people such as ☝🏽 but this is a useful reminder of what some think a feminist should do:
1. take shit
2. always be on call and jump to help
3. Perform 2 in spite of and despite 1
4. do 1. 2, 3 w/out expecting support because feminism a social service
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24 Oct
My latest: These police cadets are on display in #Egypt where the more men undress the more they are celebrated for virility, strength and hypermasculinity, whereas women are arrested for dancing on TikTok, fully clothed feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-macho-…
Those bare and barrel-chested cadets on floats that people joked looked like Pride parade graduated into a police force paid to entrap, arrest and torture #LGBTQ people. #Egypt
There is nothing funny about a country where men parade shirtless for the fascist dictator whose regime criminalizes and slut-shames women whether in “revealing” clothes or hijab, including fully-clothed women for selfies and videos on TikTok feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-macho-… #Egypt
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22 Oct
#Trump surrounds himself with young, conventionally attractive white women - Footsoldiers of the Patriarchy - and claims he’s a booster of women. When Black and women of colour and in this case an older woman -Lesley Stahl- do their job, he can’t handle it
It’s why he can’t handle Angela Merkle - older woman who is powerful.

Why he’s so often a shit to the Black and women of colour journalists at news conferences.

If he could, he would clone Ivanka and surround himself with her likeness.
And when the white women around him aren’t young and Fox News compliant, they’re helping him become President - Kellyanne Conway - or serving as Five-Star General of the Footsoldiers of the Patriarchy - #AmyConeyBarrett feministgiant.substack.com/p/if-amy-coney…
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22 Oct
Whether we are urged to be civil to racists or polite to patriarchy, the goal is the same: to maintain the power of the racist and the power of patriarchy. Profanity is an essential tool in disrupting patriarchy and its rules. That’s why I say Fuck Trump feministgiant.substack.com/p/editorial-fe…
I refuse to be polite or to be quiet or to be civil. Fuck that. In the era of the white supremacist patriarch aka Trump, profanity is the verbal equivalent of civil disobedience.
My name is Mona Eltahawy and this is my declaration of faith: Fuck the patriarchy
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22 Oct
As senate Democrats plan to boycott today’s scheduled vote on Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court, reposting my thread and essay: If Amy Coney Barrett Was a Muslim trib.al/WYhFSfS
So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white women they’re lucky to live in the U.S., not Saudi Arabia/Iran, that so many didn’t pay enough attention to the theocracy that white supremacy was building at home. feministgiant.substack.com/p/if-amy-coney… #AmyConeyBarrett
#AmyConeyBarrett is a reminder that conservatives celebrate in white Christian women what they pathologize in Muslim women feministgiant.substack.com/p/if-amy-coney…
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