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15 Nov, 6 tweets, 3 min read
I’m a big fan of @openDemocracy and so was delighted when FEMINIST GIANT intern Samiha Hossain included their article on Black women running for election in #Brazil today in her Global Roundup #VotePorMarielle
Monday-Friday, FEMINIST GIANT interns compile and write the Global Roundup to bring you feminist resistance to global patriarchy fuckery. Here are last week’s roundups: Thursday
Wednesday’s FEMINIST GIANT Global Roundup
Tuesday’s FEMINIST GIANT Global Roundup
Monday’s FEMINIST GIANT Global Roundup
FEMINIST GIANT interns are 5 students of Feminism and Gender Studies who work with me to curate the Global Roundup: stories of feminist resistance to patriarchal fuckery from around the world.

Sign up, stay up to date feministgiant.substack.com/p/coming-soon

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16 Nov
Mubarak was the dictator in #Egypt for THIRTY FUCKING YEARS and the US - 5 administrations, Democrat and Republican - knew exactly what he was.

And yet when we rose up against Mubarak in #Egypt, Biden said Mubarak wasn’t a dictator.
When Joe Biden in 2011 said " I would not refer to him as a dictator" about Mubarak, it was a reminder that as long as you’re a dictator who gives the US what it wants, the US will support you. Whether the US President is a Democrat or a Republican.

Saudi Arabia
Egypt
UAE
Trump is not an aberration. He is the poisonous fruition of decades of US policy towards #Saudi Arabia, #Egypt, #UAE etc.

He has been the most honest and ugly in its explication. He said the quiet bits out loud.
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15 Nov
cw: rape
I rarely use the world “evil,” but it’s the word for Vilina Vlas, a hotel & spa used as a rape concentration camp during the Bosnian War by a Serb paramilitary group.

@AhNidzara remembers the 200 Bosnian Muslim women & girls held there kosovotwopointzero.com/en/remembering…
Bosnian journalist, feminist and friend @AhNidzara took me to Vilina Vlas in 2016 so that I could see how the horrors that women and girls are subjected to are so quickly erased; how the site of their horror is again a hotel and spa. No memorial. As if nothing had happened there.
As a receptionist gave us a tour, I could feel the spirit of the women and girls who had been kept prisoner in that rape concentration camp. “We remember you, sisters. We honour you, sisters,”I kept saying to myself. I promised I would always remind the world of what they endured
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14 Nov
A sculpture that was unveiled this week in honour of the 18th century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft has caused a huge stir.

My new essay is about the sculpture, nudity, public art, and the white feminist fantasy of "Everywoman."

RT & share & tx!
feministgiant.substack.com/p/for-mary-wol…
I call “For Mary Wollstonecraft” the sculpture “For white women”: the latest installment in a parochial feud amongst white women over who owns white feminism,in which a white artist has given shape to a slim, white “everywoman” in homage to the white feminist “Mother of Feminism”
“She’s everywoman and clothes would have restricted her... “As far as I know, she’s more or less the shape we’d all like to be,” the artist said.

Who the fuck is “we” and who the fuck is the “every” in that “everywoman” and why the fuck is she young and white? A sculpture showing a naked woman rising out of an amorphous
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13 Nov
I wrote an essay about the sculpture:

For Mary Wollstonecraft: the White Feminist Fantasy of "Everywoman." by @monaeltahawy feministgiant.substack.com/p/for-mary-wol…
Read and share the essay and sign up for my feminist analysis on FEMINIST GIANT Newsletter.

It’s free and if you can pay, it helps keep it free for everyone! feministgiant.substack.com/p/coming-soon
I want to be clear: I have zero patience and zero tolerance for transphobia and TERFs. I am not interested in engaging with any TERFs nor will I “debate” the right of trans people to exist with dignity and in safety. Love and solidarity to trans communities ❤️✊🏽💜
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12 Nov
Instructive to see male journalists in the US defending a male journalist in the US after he was fired for masturbating during a Zoom work call. Makes you wonder:
1. How many do it
2. How casually they regard work sexual harassment
3. How reliably they report on sexual harassment Ryan Grim tweet “Aside from this being a stupid decision (“He was in his own home, and mistakenly thought he had pri
And “worker protections are shit” said in all seriousness about a privileged male journalist & TV commentator who is probably quite rich thank you during a pandemic when millions are unemployed and on the verge of eviction and not because they wank in front of their co-workers!
Also, Toobin - who is 60yo and should apparently know better, does not seem to know better
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12 Nov
This is happening in a European Union country: “Hungary's government proposed a constitutional amendment on Tuesday requiring children to be raised with a Christian interpretation of gender roles” reuters.com/article/us-hun… h/t @graygoogirl
The draft amendment declares that children must be guaranteed an "upbringing based on values stemming from #Hungary's ... Christian culture."

"The basis for family relations is marriage...The mother is a woman, the father is a man." #LGBTQ
In Hungary & Poland fascist patriarchal fuckery targets bodies of women - cis & trans - and queer people.

Recent protests in Poland carried rainbow pride flag in recognition of dovetailing of feminist & LGBTQ resistance to fascist fuckery of the State. feministgiant.substack.com/p/fuck-is-a-fe…
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