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10 Nov, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Police in #Cancun opened fire at a feminist demonstration on Monday in protest against femicide after the body of a 20yo woman was found earlier that day, 2 days after she went missing. Reporters at the protest were injured.
Here is more info #Mexico
More video after police opened fire at feminists who were protesting Femicide in #Cancun #Mexico
You will remember that in September, anarchist feminists took over a govt human rights commission building in #MexicoCity to protest government inaction over Femicide and violence against women #NiUnaMenos #Mexico

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11 Nov
Gunmen shot dead Hanan al-Barassi, a prominent female dissident, in broad daylight on a busy street in #Benghazi, in the latest killing of a critic of military strongman Khalifa Haftar and of the abuses in the areas controlled by his Libyan National Army google.com/amp/s/amp.theg…
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11 Nov
I wrote this in Sept and it applies today:

I moved to the U.S. in 2000. I’ve learned that many white Americans have a delusional amount of confidence in their government & its institutions feministgiant.substack.com/p/if-amy-coney…
They are childishly naive in believing that institutions will save them from state power, which they think will work for rather than ever 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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11 Nov
Great read.

Esp this: “Even now, while Trump and the GOP endeavor to openly steal the election, the Times acts as if treating the president and his party like the pigs that they are would be some massive breach of celestial etiquette.” sfgate.com/politics/artic… h/t @QuadCityPat
I am genuinely concerned that the media which couldn’t call a racist a racist and a liar a liar and was too cowardly to call the election are the same media lacking the spine to call out Trump and GOP election stealing fuckery
US media are unable to report on US presidents and their fuckery in the way they do presidents elsewhere. And it has to do with the exceptionalism that so many white Americans thought would save them from Trump happening them.
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10 Nov
I’m seeing several discussions about profanity and vulgarity. Great! My latest book The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls has a chapter on the political importance of profanity.

And I wrote this recently: Fuck is a Feminist Word feministgiant.substack.com/p/fuck-is-a-fe…
And this: understand how civility, decorum, manners, and the like are used to uphold authority—patriarchy, whiteness, other forms of privilege. We are urged to acquiesce as a form of maintaining that authority. feministgiant.substack.com/p/editorial-fe…
"If decent language has not been used to effect change...of what use is it? I would rather insult and change things, revise the balance of power, than keep quiet or be polite in ways that do not change anything," Feminist Scholar Stella Nyanzi. Read more 👉🏽lithub.com/mona-eltahawy-…
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10 Nov
I do all my Zoom calls & webinars with a portrait of a topless activist as my background and “The Revolution is My Cunt” is a saying of mine.

BUT what the actual fuck is this statue and whose gaze is it for?

theguardian.com/books/2020/nov…
Again: nudity is not the issue. What is being conveyed and for whose gaze is.

Why, after years of so few statues of women, is the naked female form of statues being erected for & about women?

Whether it’s a statue for #MaryWollstonecraft in #London or #Medusa in #NYC A newly unveiled statue in ...A statue of Medusa showing ...
And: which female form is being celebrated by those statues?

A cisgender woman’s body that is considered attractive to a heterosexual male gaze.

I reject slut shaming. There is nothing wrong with nudity.

But whose terms is it on and whose body does it celebrate is the Q?
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9 Nov
I refuse to allow those who don't recognize my full humanity to expect politeness of me.

Essay: Fuck is a Feminist Word by @monaeltahawy feministgiant.substack.com/p/fuck-is-a-fe…
I refuse to allow those who don't recognize my full humanity to expect politeness or civility or unity or sympathy from me.

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Polite feminism is capitulation. These times of fascism and greed must be met with the political power of profanity.

“Mona Eltahawy Would Like You to Fuck Right Off With Your Civility Politics”

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