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17 Nov, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Thank you @mr_mokgoroane for posting this. It was wrong of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to dismiss the anger and hurt of the trans community at J.K.Rowling’s transphobia and to side with a powerful author whose transphobia endangers trans people.
Here’s the full article via @mr_mokgoroane drive.google.com/file/d/1VL0QZz…
Here’s background: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie thinks JK Rowling's anti-trans essay was 'a perfectly reasonable piece' pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/15/chi…
This is a powerful thread by a Nigerian author that I highly recommend you read
Once again: I do not argue or “debate” with TERFs or engage with transphobia.

Just as I don’t “debate” racism or engage with racism or any form of hate or bigotry.
I am a cis feminist who is still learning how to be a better supporter of trans friends and comrades.

My feminism aims to destroy patriarchy and is enriched and strengthened and not in any way diminished by supporting trans friends and comrades.
Twitter is a big universe and you are not obliged to follow me or try to argue with or dissuade me.

Outside the White House, January 2020 . Fuck any form of bigotry 🎥 @rerutled

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17 Nov
Once again extolling the nonsensical and toxic fuckery of “civility” and “unity,” which much like toxic positivity, demands we delude ourselves into a lockstep that benefits who?

Biden hopes to avoid divisive Trump investigations, preferring unity.

nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
Two days after the election, and before Biden was declared winner, I wrote about this obsession with “unity” and “civility” feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-femini…
“My concern if Joe Biden wins the presidency is that the white liberals who spent the Trump era crying  “This isn’t my America” (sidenote: WHAT FUCKING AMERICA HAVE YOU BEEN LIVING IN?) will now celebrate “My America is back!” and go on amnesia overdrive.”
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17 Nov
I love this article by @molarawood.
Congratulations @MaazaMengiste and @efie41209591, who are shortlisted for the @TheBookerPrizes!

Africa basks in Booker boost for female writers bbc.com/news/world-afr…
“The fact that there are 2 Africans, there are 3 Black people on this list,feels like this is a clarion call...that it’s possible to judge something fairly,not fall into tokenism,to judge a work for what it is. It feels like it sets a new path for the competitions” @MaazaMengiste
"I’ve often been the only African, only Black person, on a list;and this time it seems like the judges have thrown down a gauntlet & said they’ll judge a book by what's actually written, and not on reputation of a writer or reputation of the power they might have on the industry”
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17 Nov
Artist @sxgx designed these beauties for FEMINIST GIANT. I love them all. I’m using the first one right now and will phase into the black one soon, alternating through all. feministgiant.substack.com/p/coming-soon FEMINIST GIANT in yellow letters on a pink background with aFEMINIST GIANT in yellow letters on a black background with FEMINIST GIANT in black letters on a yellow background withFEMINIST GIANT in black letters on a pink background with a
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17 Nov
My I-Am-Not-A-White-Man and I am on #Substack story.

I started FEMINIST GIANT in September and within a month a professor of Feminism and Gender Studies asked if I’d take on interns and I did and I’m enjoying editing them and writing my own essays.

feministgiant.substack.com/p/coming-soon
My newsletter is free because esp now I want it to be accessible to everyone. And there is also the pay-if-you-can option which helps to keep it free.

It’s been two and a half months and I’ve been writing more than I have in a long time: 2 essays/week feministgiant.substack.com/p/if-amy-coney…
And Monday-Friday, I edit the Global Roundup which is compiled and written by the five interns.

Here’s today’s feministgiant.substack.com/p/global-round… #Substack
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16 Nov
To demand I support a woman simply because she’s a woman, w/no regard to whether she upholds or works to destroy patriarchy, is to reduce feminism to Sorority of Pinky Swears.

Sign up for feminist analyses of Biden Cabinet, incl possible 1st female SecDef feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-the-ju…
Whether it’s Trump nominating a woman to head the CIA or Biden nominating a woman to head the Pentagon, putting women at the service of patriarchy is no victory for us. I wrote this about Gina Haspel heading the CIA nytimes.com/2018/03/14/opi…
These are discussions that will come up again and again as women demand inclusion in institutions that have not been friends to women, such as the military, religious institutions, corporations — and the C.I.A.
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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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