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20 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
#Egyptian regime crackdown continues against human rights group @EIPR after staff met with Western ambassadors in #Cairo.

Security Forces arrested executive director Gasser Abdel-Razek from his home on Thursday, the 3rd employee arrested this week
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I’ve known Gasser since the 1990s when I was a Reuters correspondent in Cairo who would often call him at the Hisham Mubarak Centre to comment on cases.

He is one of the most sincere and big-hearted activists I have ever met. He truly loves Egypt and the fight for its liberation
Gasser’s detention comes after Egyptian security forces detained two other EIPR employees:

Karim Ennarah, the head of the group's criminal justice department, was arrested Wednesday while spending vacation in Dahab, Sinai, His whereabouts and the charges he faces are unknown.
EIPR administrative manager, Mohamed Basheer, was also arrested from his home on Sunday and questioned by State Security agencies. #Egypt

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My latest essay is about trauma, grief, perimenopause, pandemic, and revolution.

Perfect weekend reading!

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I think twice, thrice, and often more before I share moments of vulnerability on social media. When you’re a feminist accustomed to having the dogs of patriarchy let loose on you, you become more comfortable with vowing to bring pain to your enemies than to admitting to your own.
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18 Nov
Feminism is not easy or nice; it is fire and a fight. I am not playing; I am here to destroy. Feminism is the destruction of patriarchy; daily, because patriarchy will not be packing up and leaving, never to return, when the polls close.

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Feminism demands. A lot. It demands more than equality with cisgender heterosexual men. Men are not my yardstick. If men themselves are not free of the ravages of racism, capitalism and other forms of oppression, it is not enough to say I want to be equal to them.
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18 Nov
#Egyptian activists arrested for contact with western diplomats, @hrw Human Rights Watch says.

The arrests were a 'slap in the face' to the Western countries whose diplomats met the civil society group telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/1…
Karim Ennarah, who is the director of criminal justice at advocacy group @EIPR Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, was detained in the resort town of Dahab, three days after the arrest of EIPR’s administrative director Mohamed Basheer on Sunday. #Egypt
“All signs indicate this is orchestrated at the highest level” #Egypt
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18 Nov
I never wanted children and I am childfree by choice so #ThxBirthControl - all of the various methods I’ve used.
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I am happily childfree by choice. #ThxBirthControl
I wish I could talk to my grandmother so that I can hear from her what it was like to be pregnant 14 times. I was 13 yo when she died and had not had that conversation with her.

My paternal grandmother had eight children.

#ThxBirthControl
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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.

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