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Mona Eltahawy

31 Jan, 10 tweets, 4 min read

@SethAbramson

This is what happened between me and @SethAbramson on Saturday. I don’t follow him but when he claimed he’d written the first look at women of the insurrection several people tagged me and alerted him that I’d written an article on women of insurrection on January 10

He tweeted this to me and I thanked him and expected he would delete and rewrite his inaccurate tweet.

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1355726866628435969

He did not delete claim to have written the “first” look. If it wasn’t important, he wouldn’t have claimed it.Some of his fans wrote to me saying I was being “silly” to insist on saying I was first. Note they did not call his use of “first” silly. I and many asked him to delete

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1355726866628435969

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1355779894626705410

Nine hours after his tweet, and many requests from people who supported me, Seth finally deleted his inaccurate tweet and also deleted my name and link to my article on women of the insurrection

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1355779894626705410

Seth also blocked me, his tweet apologizing, and many of those who supported me. Some of them have joked there are enough to start a club: The Seth Blocked Me for Supporting Mona Club

The work of Black and women of colour is too often ignored and erased. Instead of writing to tell him to write a more accurate tweet & not make false claims, some people wrote to tell me that Seth’s articles and mine are different and that “he’s a good guy” and I should let it go

The bar for men is so low that when we - especially Black and women of colour - reject their fuckery, we are told we are being silly/arrogant for saying “I did this first.”

Fuck that shit.

I am proud of my writing. Retweet & subscribe feministgiant.com

Things exist before white men “discover” them.

Some of us have been “first,” long before men got there.

Zero tolerance for patriarchal fuckery feministgiant.com/p/coming-soon

Thank you and love and solidarity to all who supported me ❤️✊🏽💜

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1348284113736888321

Here’s my article on January 10. Notice, I did not need to make grandiose “first ever” claims

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1348284113736888321

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