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28 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Starting today and through end of Monday: there is special offer on paid subscriptions to FEMINIST GIANT.

My newsletter is free so that it’s accessible to all and paid subscriptions help me to keep it free. Details 👉🏽👉🏽 feministgiant.substack.com/p/coming-soon
Paid subscribers have helped me produce two original essays a week on feminist issues, such as this on fascism, homoeroticism and which bodies patriarchy celebrates.

Essay: Macho Man by @monaeltahawy feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-macho-…
My essays and the Global Roundups focus on feminist resistance to global patriarchal fuckery, whether in public art or private spaces feministgiant.substack.com/p/for-mary-wol…
Patriarchal fuckery is one of my favourite phrases because Fuck is a Feminist Word feministgiant.substack.com/p/fuck-is-a-fe…

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29 Nov
This slim book is one of the most powerful I’ve read recently. “Being Native American in this country means often having a very different take on American history and historic figures generally accepted as national heroes. patreon.com/posts/42251360
“Just because they’re your heroes doesn’t make them automatically ours, since what benefitted non-Native settlers was often dangerously harmful to indigenous communities,” Susan Power, who is from the Dakota Nation, writes in her forward.
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the order for the mass hanging of 38 Dakota men, the largest mass execution in US history.

In 1875, Lincoln’s widow Mary Todd Lincoln was tried on charges of insanity and committed to a sanitarium.
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28 Nov
Just finished watching Asif Kapadia’s documentary Diego Maradona, finally. And I can’t help wondering about what was left out of it. I want to write something about Maradona for FEMINIST GIANT. And what is left out when we talk about “giants” is a start

My team, since 1976 when I was nine, is Manchester United. Napoli is my second team and the city of Naples is my favourite place in Italy because it reminds me of Cairo and I feel at home there.I grew up watching football every week with my dad and brother when we lived in the UK
And when we moved to Saudi Arabia in 1982, we would watch Serie A every week. Maradona joined Napoli in 1984, so his years there were a fixture in our football viewing.

And as I think about what I will write, this documentary has given me a lot to wrestle with.
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28 Nov
I write often on the political importance of profanity: Fuck is a feminist word h/t @JL_Laurie feministgiant.substack.com/p/fuck-is-a-fe…
Civility, decorum, manners and the like are used to uphold authority--patriarchy, whiteness, wealth, other forms of privilege--and we are urged to acquiesce in service to maintaining that authority. We are not obligated to show respect to those in power. feministgiant.substack.com/p/fuck-is-a-fe…
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, to maintain the power of patriarchy. lithub.com/mona-eltahawy-…
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28 Nov
The pandemic is a fucking disaster for women around the world. I launched FEMINIST GIANT in September to highlight via the Global Roundups the ways that feminists are fighting back feministgiant.substack.com/p/coming-soon
The Global Roundups are compiled by interns who are students in a Feminist and Gender Studies Course. Here’s Thursday’s roundup
Tuesday’s Global Roundup exemplifies why I started FEMINIST GIANT: Inaara Merani compiled articles about a Black woman from Côte d’Ivoire, an Indigenous cis woman & an Indigenous trans woman, a Chinese theatre troupe, and South Korean social commentary.
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27 Nov
My first book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution just came out in Turkish. Someone sent me this ad for it in the #Istanbul underground. Translation in next tweet
“Journalist and activist Mona Eltahawy looks at women’s rights in the Middle East from a broad perspective. “Rebel Body”: a manifesto full of rage and hope which reminds us that freedom in the future is not a utopia.”
This is the cover via Epsilon publisher A hard with henna illustrations on the fingers holds onto a
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26 Nov
I am very sad to hear that Hafez has died. When I first became a journalist in Cairo in 1990, I used to interview him frequently for articles on human rights in #Egypt. My condolences to his family and loved ones. english.ahram.org.eg/News/395669.as…
cw: torture, rape
I first met Hafez in 1989/90 when I went to the annual conference of the #Egyptian Organization for Human Rights. He introduced me to a woman who had come from southern Egypt to demand they help her get justice.
I have never forgotten that woman and I will always appreciate human rights defenders in #Egypt then and now who fight the military-backed dictatorship and its crimes.
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