Watching the new season of a show that is now depicting the start of the pandemic. It's the first of my regular shows that I've seen that acknowledges the pandemic and watching the characters first learn about COVID was awful, so triggering. I wanted to cry. Run away and cry.
The pandemic has killed at least 2.5 million people around the world so far. And we have not reckoned with the magnitude of our pain and grief. We are not prepared for the bottom of the bottomless pit of grief, as I say here feministgiant.com/p/deliberate-b…
It's been a year already lockdown started for many people around the world. This coming month will be a year for me and those of us in North America.
I remember at the start we thought at the latest we'd be out and about again in June.
I remember at the start we thought at the latest we'd be out and about again in June.
I couldn’t write at the start of the pandemic. So I made these FEMINIST GIANT Dispatches from the Pandemic instead. This was Dispatch #1 on March 23
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And this from May was the last one: Dispatch #9. I started writing after that one - FEMINIST GIANT is now my newsletter
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The pandemic is a fucking disaster for women around the world and i
the massive setbacks it’s causing will be felt for decades.
That’s why I launched FEMINIST GIANT feministgiant.com
the massive setbacks it’s causing will be felt for decades.
That’s why I launched FEMINIST GIANT feministgiant.com
A future essay will be about crying.
I was not a crier in the Before Time. But I have relished shows and films that have made me cry. That catharsis was such a necessary relief.
We have not even started to reckon with grief.
I was not a crier in the Before Time. But I have relished shows and films that have made me cry. That catharsis was such a necessary relief.
We have not even started to reckon with grief.
In any case, as you can see from the above and 👇🏽 I look complete different to how I looked at the start of the pandemic.
https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1365693378642518019
It’s intentional. I did not want to emerge as if I’d just been waiting at home until it was safe to come out and pretend as If this monumental fucking disaster hadn’t happened
https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1363190703921258496
The pandemic’s immediate and long term pain: we have not fully reckoned with either
https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1337875442238369792
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