Thread by @monaeltahawy

It is a fuck-this-shit moment for Egyptian women. And the rage and reckoning are the fuel of revolution. Not a cis-gender heterosexual dick-swinging revolution. We already had one of those almost 10 years ago.
A feminist revolution. feministgiant.com/p/why-do-they-…

The revolutions that began 10 years ago in the Middle East and North Africa might have been started by a man. They will be completed by women and queer people too often marginalized and ignored and subjected to violence by the State, Street and Home.

I wrote this in 2012. And I turned it into my first book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution to say that unless the rage shifts from the presidential palace to the Street and Home, the revolution has not started foreignpolicy.com/2012/04/23/why…

Over the coming weeks, I will be writing more about the #Egyptian revolution 10 years on feministgiant.com/p/coming-soon

“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.”

I call that the Trifecta of Misogyny: State, Street, Home. I wrote about it in my 2015 book #HeadscarvesAndHymens

While the battle in #Egypt between Islamists & military rulers gets the most coverage, it’s not the fiercest battle. The battle that will determine our true freedom is the one against vs all forms of patriarchy. Unless women are free, no one is free #HeadscarvesAndHymens

In 2012, I told the BBC that women will complete the revolutions that began 10 years ago bbc.com/news/av/world-…

In 2020, I told the BBC that will women will complete the revolutions bbc.com/news/world-mid…

And in 2014 I made a BBC radio documentary with Gemma Newby on women & revolution with interviews with women from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Jordan. This is part one bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02…

My book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution was published in 2015. It has been published in 12 languages, just came out in Turkish, and is banned in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, and Qatar.

“The real battle, the one that determines whether #Egypt frees itself of authoritarianism, is between patriarchy - established and upheld by the state and the street and at home - and women, who will no longer accept the status quo.” #HeadscarvesAndHymens

I will be gathering all the above and publishing more here in the coming weeks.

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