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18 Dec, 6 tweets, 3 min read
My new essay: Why I Say "Fuck."

I'm a massive fan of profanity. I explain why here. Tell me why you say "Fuck" in replies and use #WhyISayFuck.feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
I believe that profanity is politically important.

I started FEMINIST GIANT so that I can write the way I speak, and use all the profanity I want to use. Sign up.

#WhyISayFuck feministgiant.com/p/coming-soon?…
#WhyISayFuck the 2 minute version
#WhyISayFuck in from of the White House, January 2019

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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. #WhyISayFuck
Thank you all who shared #WhyISayFuck!

Love and solidarity 💜✊🏽❤️

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19 Dec
I say, “Fuck the patriarchy,” because I am a woman, a woman of colour, and of Muslim descent. And I’ll be fucking damned if I jump through your civility or decorum hoops any day #WhyISayFuck
Pair with this:

“I am writing to you because I want you to know the importance of telling a man to shut the fuck up.”

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The obsession with civility in the United States is bipartisan and white, and often directed at women, especially Black women and women of colour. The less power a woman has, the less freedom she is given to curse.

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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
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17 Dec
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
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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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