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8 Feb, 5 tweets, 4 min read
When I look back at the 10 years since the #Jan25 Revolution, one of the most striking things as I told @F24Debate are the unprecedented numbers of women, girls, and queer people exposing and talking about sexual violence today in #Egypt.
That will be the subject of my next essay for my series on the 10th anniversary of the #Jan25 Revolution. Here’s part one feministgiant.com/p/jan25-ten-ye…
I spoke with @GaiaCaramazza for @TheNewArabVoice on #Jan25 impact on patriarchy and feminism in Egypt today.

Full interview english.alaraby.co.uk/english/indept…

Mona Eltahawy on the revolution , feminism, and hope
'They used women's bodies as proxy battlefields between the regime and their families'.

Via @GaiaCaramazza and @The_NewArab english.alaraby.co.uk/english/indept…
I was also glad to speak with the @voxdotcom podcast team about the 10th anniversary of the revolutions and uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa. take a listen.

megaphone.link/VMP2392394313

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9 Feb
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9 Feb
Ahead of Trump’s #Impeachment trial, a reminder.

I recorded this in front of the White House in January 2020 🎥 @rerutled
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. feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
I refuse to allow those who don't recognize my full humanity to expect politeness or civility or unity or sympathy from me.

This TV episode remains banned in Australia. After it aired live, it was pulled from rebroadcast for, among other reasons,profanity
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8 Feb
Fed up as I am with the consistent refusal to take seriously the danger of white women like Marjorie Taylor Greene, I suggest you forget the Bechdel Test & follow my If so-and-so was a Muslim Test: If Marjorie Taylor Greene was a Muslim she'd be in Gitmo feministgiant.com/p/if-marjorie-…
If the white women who stormed the Capitol were Muslim, they would have been called “fanatics” and “extremists,” and vilified for the violence they committed, not constantly remembered by loved ones as the best version of themselves. feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…
If Amy Coney Barrett was a Muslim, her zealotry would have been pathologized, not earn her a lifetime post on the highest court in the land. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…
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8 Feb
As we mark the 10th anniversary of the #Jan25 Revolution, the way #Egypt is failing to investigate a gang rape is a reminder that the regime continues to use “immorality” and “debauchery” to target women and LGBTQ people. Read this by @Rasha__Younes
hrw.org/news/2021/02/0…
I wrote this about how patriarchy--in this case the Egyptian regime--reserves its moral crusades for queer people and women, especially the daughters of the working class, but not the sons of the wealthy who rape and sexually assault. feministgiant.com/p/essay-macho-…
For my series on the 10th anniversary of the #Jan25 Revolution, I wrote about the importance of feminism to liberation. And in my next essay, I'll be looking at how the revolution went home. Read and subscribe through links in the essay feministgiant.com/p/jan25-ten-ye…
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8 Feb
Today marks 1,000 days in prison for #Saudi feminist @LoujainHathloul. She has been brutally tortured and went on hunger strike twice. Loujain was sentenced to nearly 6 years for fighting for Saudi women.

We remember you, Loujain.

#FreeLoujain unconditionally!
I wrote this soon after Loujain was detained in May 2018 as part of #Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman’s crackdown against 3 generations of feminists who’d been fighting not just vs driving ban but the guardianship system -the foundation of patriarchy
nytimes.com/2018/06/18/opi…
And here is more background on the women’s rights activists who were detained and put on trial as part of that crackdown

On 15 May 2018, a number of prominent Saudi women’s human rights activists were arrested. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
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7 Feb
What's it like to fall apart in the middle of a pandemic that coincides with your perimenopause & a grief anniversary? My mind felt like a car that was trying to drive with the hand brake on. And there was nothing to do but sit with it, screeching and all. feministgiant.com/p/essay-fallin…
I think twice before I share vulnerability on social media. When you’re a feminist accustomed to having the dogs of patriarchy let loose on you, you become more comfortable with vowing to bring pain to your enemies than to admitting to your own. But I have learned to do both:
be on the lookout for the dogs of patriarchy, ready to kick their teeth in & also keep my pain soft. When I do share my pain,it's held with such care & love by my community of strangers & comrades online that I have to remind myself: softness drives the revolution as much as rage
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