I wrote this for 4yo me who once waved her slipper at a man who stopped his car on the street under my family’s balcony, pulled his penis out and beckoned for me to come down. I absolutely believed in my rage, convinced that it could frighten away a grown man.
https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1360972788920639491
I honour that angry 4yo girl. I honour her belief that she deserved to be free of molestation & of interruption. She was born with a pilot light of anger, tenacious & sure of its right to flare whenever treated unjustly. I believe all girls are born w/that pilot light of anger.
That little girl found me on a dance floor in Montreal three years ago and told me “Beat that fucker up!” and I celebrate her. Today, we are waving our slippers together.
feministgiant.com/p/i-beat-my-as… #IBeatMyAssaulter
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What would the world look like if girls were taught they were volcanoes, whose eruptions were a thing of beauty, power to behold, force not to be trifled with? What if instead of breaking their wildness like a rancher tames a bronco, we taught girls the power of being dangerous?
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