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3 Dec, 6 tweets, 2 min read
I love films and I am so fucking fed up of endless films about people who are 31 years old. I’ve seen a million and I am bored of What Am I Going To Do With My Life? narratives.

Tell me about films you like that centre people who are older than 40.
Extra special gold stars for films that centre women who are 40 and older.
About to watch Grandma with Lily Tomlin and Laverne Cox
I recommend Grandma and I will recommend more as I see them. Thank you for all the suggestions! bustle.com/articles/10565…
And I highly recommend The Forty-Year Old Version! Saw recently and it’s great
TwitterLand you’re fabulous! Thank you for all those recommendations.

Wow.

I’ve got a good list to work through now.

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4 Dec
There is a scene in Abbas Kiarostami’s film Ten when a woman sitting in a car in Tehran traffic gingerly removes her hijab to reveal a shaved head. When I first saw that film in New York City in 2003 I started to cry. feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-the-ki…
The thought of shaving my hair off tantalized me. It promised an answer to that “or else what?” but only if I stopped running away from ugliness. 

I rewatched the film soon after I shaved off my hair and that scene still seized me.
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3 Dec
The evil fucks of the Trump administration wouldn’t hand over phone numbers and addresses that could’ve helped reunite families they separated. They’ve finally made some data available. Fuck them forever . nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
The ACLU's Lee Gelernt said he's often asked whether the Trump administration has helped reunite families. He said that rather than help, it has withheld data.
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2 Dec
Talking about the vaccine makes me wonder about what from these intense & difficult days I will hold onto. I know it will be the new ways I create and write. As fucking awful as this year has been, I’m glad that my writing is directly supported by readers. I gladly hold onto that
I will not be going back to the old places I used to write for nor the people I used to work with. Done done done.
If anything, I’m wondering why it took me so long to just say fuck it all and go my own way.
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2 Dec
Independence and disobedience are not the same thing. I was a very obedient child. I listened. I learned. I behaved. Do we learn to obey or must we learn to disobey? I know I had to learn disobedience.
Essay: The King Herself by @monaeltahawy feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-the-ki…
From v early age, my hair has been the site of a dance between disobedience & independence. Now, in the limited confines of lockdown, the dance took on a more urgent tempo as I learned to liberate myself from what had once given me power so that I could fashion anew my strength Profile of Mona with shaved head
What does a girl look like? Who taught me to be a girl? If pretty is the root of obedience, then ugly surely equals disobedience & independence squared. At the heart of that equation sits femininity, on a 3-legged stool of capitalism, racism, and misogyny.
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In its latest war on women’s bodies, #Egypt’s public prosecution is investigating aspiring model Salma El-Shimy for a photo session at the Saqqara pyramid plateau that she posted on social media english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/… A woman dressed as ancient Egyptian with a headed and holdin
The Sisi regime investigates & arrests women for posing, dancing, singing fully clothed on social media. Meanwhile,the more they undress, the more #Egyptian men are celebrated for virility, masculinity, strength. Remember police cadets on display for Sisi? feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-macho-…
When they undress, #Egyptian male celebrities expect to be praised. They are not slut-shamed or criminalized. Egyptian women are criminalized, slut-shamed & punished in the name of “morality” - whether they are in “revealing” clothes or hijab. feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-macho-…
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30 Nov
There were large protests against further proposed restrictions to abortion in #Poland on Saturday, which marked the 102nd anniversary of women’s suffrage in the country.
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Women’s Strike has organized the largest protests in #Poland since the fall of communism in 1989 to fight the near-total ban on abortion. And their core message has been “Fuck off” to priests and the far-right govt feministgiant.substack.com/p/fuck-is-a-fe… #StrajkKobiet #AborcjaBezGranic
When the fascist fucks in your country use a pandemic to tighten their grip on your body with a near total ban on abortion, the path to freedom must be paved with profanity. Politeness is capitulation. Fuck is a feminist word. #StrajkKobiet
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