The chapter on Profanity in my latest book The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls explains all of this Tweet by Axios: SCOOP: Some advisers close to Biden are frus
Also: Fuck is a Feminist word

“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.”

feministgiant.com/p/fuck-is-a-fe…
Fuck civility
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-…
Mona Eltahawy Would Like You to Fuck Right Off With Your Civility Politics:

"I refuse to allow those who don't recognize my full humanity to expect politeness of me vice.com/en/article/xgq…
I believe that profanity is politically important.

Subscribe to my newsletter FEMINIST GIANT.

Resist global patriarchal fuckery.

feministgiant.com/p/coming-soon?…
Do not pardon my French: the cover for the French edition of my second book The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls coming February 4, 2021 via @massot_editions. Merci beaucoup illustrator @ilpistrice Francesca Protopapa Cover of French edition of my book: illustration of Mona wit
"If decent language has not been used to effect change...of what use is it? I would rather insult and change things, revise the balance of power, than keep quiet or be polite in ways that do not change anything," @drstellanyanzi, wearing FUCK OPPRESSION sash and a tiara Stella Nyanzi leaving court in February after her release. S
Ugandan feminist Dr. Stella Nyanzi has harnassed profanity into a political force. She was put on trial for offending the longtime dictator of her country. During her sentencing she yelled “Fuck you fuck you fuck you” and bared and jiggled her breasts. theguardian.com/books/2020/mar…
She is running for a seat in the Ugandan parliament in the 2021 elections and she is not shutting up.

Polite feminism is capitulation. These times of fascism and greed must be met with the political power of profanity. feministgiant.com/p/fuck-is-a-fe…
I wrote a chapter on the political importance of profanity in The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609114/t…
There is nothing polite about fascism. There is nothing civil about grabbing pussies. There is nothing polite about putting children in cages. There is nothing respectable about leaving 310k to die of a pandemic. There is nothing civil about white supremacy, fuckers.

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17 Dec
The #ArabSpring may have been sparked by an Arab man — Mohamed Bouazizi, the #Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire in desperation — but they will be finished by Arab women.

feministgiant.com/p/why-do-they-…
Until the rage shifts from the oppressors in our presidential palaces to the oppressors on our street corners and in our homes, our revolution has not even begun.

#ArabSpring
When people took to the streets Dec. 2010...they were calling for employment,freedom,dignity.I think they weren't ready to accept freedom means all freedoms...women's freedom,sexual freedom,individual freedom.They're not ready for such a revolution
- Lina Ben Mhenni, Tunisia,2014 Image
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16 Dec
Freedom is astonishing & breathtaking. Freedom is terrifying when those who insist on that freedom are those whose submission you have been socialized into believing is your bequeathed right.

For 10th anniversary of the Arab Spring, new essay on Thursday feministgiant.com/p/coming-soon?…
This week is the 10th anniversary of the Arab Spring.

This is the dedication of my book:

To the girls of the Middle East and North Africa: Be immodest, rebel, disobey, and know you deserve to be free. #FeministRevolution To the girls of the Middle ...Cover of Headscarves and Hy...
“Rise up, women wake up! As in the struggle workers are engaged in against capitalists to break down the class system, our demands for freedom and equality with men...will not be won if we do not raise our voices, if no blood is shed.”
- Kanno Sugako, 1906 #FeministRevolution Kanji from the waist up, in...
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16 Dec
Will there be a #COVID19 #stimulus this week or will Congress continue to tell Americans to go fuck themselves?
People are stealing bread, pasta and baby formula to survive.

At end of December, millions of Americans could lose their homes when a moratorium on evictions expires & 12mln long-term jobless and gig workers will lose supplemental federal unemployment benefits.

Unconscionable
If I had children I would not just steal to feed them, I would set the world on fire for them. 

We should all set fire to a world that allows anyone’s children to go hungry.
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15 Dec
Muriel Rukeyser was born on this day in 1913. She is one of my favourite poets.

"One of her favourite assignments for her poetry writing students was to begin a poem with the words 'I could not say.'" #MurielRukeyser Six books by Muriel Rukeyser
So many poems I love by her, including this one which is especially resonant.

Poem is from The Speed of Darkness, published in 1968. How resonant is what she describes these days? #MurielRukeyser poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/po…
Here is an animated version of Poem #MurielRukeyser poetryfoundation.org/video/146443/p…
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15 Dec
In #Egypt, women are criminalized, slut-shamed & silenced when they demand justice for being sexually assaulted and their social media pics are used against them. Meanwhile, Egyptian police cadets on display for Sisi feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-macho-…
And #Egyptian male celebrities are celebrated for social media posts like these while women are criminalized and slut shamed for their pictures - fully clothed - on social media On the left is celerity Bassem Youssef from the waist up shi
The preening hypermasculinity comes at a time in #Egypt when unprecedented number of women are exposing sexual assault. Sisi’s regime is trying to terrorize women into silence, whether via the arrests witnesses in support of a gang rape victim or imprisonment of the TikTok women.
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15 Dec
This week is 10th anniv of the Arab Spring, when #Tunisia rose up vs long-time dictator Ben Ali. Article soon but for now:
- In Tunisia, there was a fistfight in parliament after conservative lawmaker called single mothers "whores." Feminist protests vs him called "distractions"
- In Saudi Arabia, feminist activist Loujain al-Hathloul is on trial in a terrorism court for campaigning for women's rights.
- In Palestine, the brothers and brother-in-law of a woman they beat to death last year for posting a picture with her fiance have just been released.
- In Egypt, a woman is being criminalized and threatened with jail for exposing her sexual harassment, female TiK Tok users are in prison for "violating family values" and witnesses in a gang rape case are in detention.

Fuck the patriarchy.
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