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6 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
“I am writing to you because I want you to know the importance of telling a man to shut the fuck up.

I am writing to you because I want you to know the importance and power of being dangerous when you ask questions that challenge, not comfort oppressors.” feministgiant.substack.com/p/letter-dear-…
“I am writing to you because I want you to know that “getting along” & “uniting” & “being civil” w/white supremacist patriarchy makes you complicit in its crimes.We must never “get along” w/fascists. We must never “unite” w/white supremacists. We must always “argue” w/patriarchy”
“I am writing to urge you to stop wanting to be liked, and demand instead to be free.

Polite and well-behaved girls do not terrify the patriarchy. We must terrify patriarchy.”

Defy. Disobey. Disrupt. feministgiant.substack.com/p/letter-dear-…
Defy, Disobey, Disrupt by @monaeltahawy

Sign up - it’s free 👉🏽👉🏽 feministgiant.substack.com/p/coming-soon?…

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7 Dec
I had a great call with my parents this weekend and it made me miss them even more, so I write this about longing, nostalgia, and ways to let our hearts roam in lockdown feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-exiled…
I associate that feeling of longing and missing something with this song by Abdel-Halim Hafez that my parents used to play during our weekends in London soon after we moved there from Cairo.
And I associate roaming and being a wanderer - the theme of the song - with this fantastic photograph by Maria Chabot of Georgia O’Keeffe hitching a ride to Abiquiu, Ghost Ranch, in 1944. Georgia O’Keeffe sitting be...
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7 Dec
Sunday read: Is there such a thing as nostalgia whereby we long not for a “normal” but for the times in our lives which stretched and strengthened that muscle we call our heart? I want to call it my feminist nostalgia. feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-exiled… Georgia O’Keeffe on the bac...
What from the Before Time do we celebrate? Which of our memories make that muscle we call our heart remind us that it is not just blood that keeps us alive, but the song of love it conducts in our ears, multilingual, polyphonic.
Are you exercising your heart in lockdown? Are you drawing on your reservoir of feminist nostalgia to keep that muscle you call your heart supple and ready to roam? feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-exiled…
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6 Dec
For the past 10 weeks, 5 students of Prof @radamishany Gender & Feminist Studies class have compiled & curated FEMINIST GIANT Global Roundup. It has been fabulous to have Miriam Batal, Inaara Merani, Sahra, Lauren MacDonald, and Samiha Hossain as interns. feministgiant.substack.com/p/global-round…
Their internship has been an alternative to a class project and they will be graded for it. I am sharing here, their final Global Roundups to give you an idea of the fabulous work they’ve contributed to FEMINIST GIANT feministgiant.substack.com/p/global-round…
When I first spoke with the interns, I told them that I started FEMINIST GIANT because the pandemic is a fucking disaster to women and girls around the world and we must pay attention feministgiant.substack.com/p/global-round…
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6 Dec
On Dec. 6th, 1989, a man murdered 14 women at Ecole Polytechnique,a Montréal engineering school. Remember the #MontrealMassacre. Femicide - the murder of women for being women - hasn’t been eradicated in Canada/globally. I made this in April 🎥 @rerutled
What fucking world is this:
- where men still beat and kill us even during a pandemic
- how long must we wait until men stop beating and murdering us, even under #COVID19 lockdown?
Domestic abuse kills and hurts millions.

Where is the vaccine against THAT global epidemic? Where is the vaccine against patriarchy?

🎥 @rerutled
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6 Dec
I’ve been a football fan since I was 9yo. Seeing stands empty of fans is awful. But fuck the racist fuckery that Black players continue to be subjected to. How much longer will Black players endure this violence? google.com/amp/s/amp.theg… #BLM
After months of not being able to be at the stadium, this is how Millwall fans behave at the first home game this season:

They loudly booed footballers taking a knee in recognition of the Black Lives Matter movement and against racism in the UK and around the world.
The Millwall fans who booed players taking a knee against racism booed Black footballers who play for Millwall. They are racist shits and anyone excusing their booing is a racist shit. This is a Black Millwall player
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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.
What does the revolution have to do with hair?During the Irish Revolution, both sides would forcibly shave/cut women’s hair as punishment & to control women’s bodies.The clerics who co-opted the Iranian Revolution claimed enforcing hijab on entire nation’s women as an achievement
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