“How long must we wait for men and boys to stop murdering us, to stop beating us and to stop raping us? How many rapists must we kill?" I asked that on an Australian TV show in Nov. 2019. A bunch of white men complained and the episode was banned.
And now, even during a fucking pandemic:
How long must we wait until men stop beating & murdering us even in lockdown?
🎥 @rerutled
Where the vaccine against the pandemic of Femicide and violence against women?
Where is the VACCINE against THAT global epidemic?
A former Olympic boxer on the run for a year after the death of his daughter, a Staten Island Muslim activist, has been tracked to Kuwait and charged with killing her, authorities and sources said Sunday. h/t @rerutlednydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-c…
Kabary Salem, 52, was extradited from Kuwait Friday after a yearlong manhunt following the death of his 25-year-old daughter Ola Salem, officials said.
This is an article that was published soon after Ola Salem was found dead.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
The chapter on Profanity in my latest book The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls explains all of this
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.”
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.
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
“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