Thread by @monaeltahawy

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On Monday, #InternationalWomensDay, activists in Mexico painted the names of women victimized by violence on metal barriers that the president erected around Mexico’s national palace on Saturday, ahead of a major women’s march nbcnews.com/news/latino/vi…

As Samiha Hossain pointed highlighted in her compilation on Friday, the Mexican president's support for a politician accused of sexual assault has, rightfully, angered women's rights activists theguardian.com/global-develop…

Mexican feminists are incredible. You will remember that in September, anarchist feminists took over a govt human rights commission building in #MexicoCity to protest government inaction over Femicide and violence against women #NiUnaMenos #Mexico

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1303292263611670530?s=20

I believe feminism must terrify the patriarchy. And in Mexico, it has been instructional to see how a leftist president has not been a friend to feminism. He fears it.

“We want him to protect us the same way he’s protecting these buildings,” said Vania Palacios, 19, who carried a sign reading: “Fight today so not to die tomorrow.” theguardian.com/global-develop…

Again and again, the message that the State, be it in Mexico or anywhere, else, gives to women is that their "vandalism" is worse than the violence against them they are protesting. Why is that? Why is a building or a painting more important than the life of a woman?

After Pres. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador chided the activists for defacing images of Francisco Madero, an assassinated former president revered by many as a hero of the 1910-1920 revolution, the protesters daubed paint on portraits of more historic figures. channelnewsasia.com/news/world/mex…

“I have every right to burn and smash things." I will always remember this powerful talk by Yesenia Zamudio, a feminist collective member whose daughter was murdered in2016.

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1231664046954467333?s=20

So when the State does fuck all to "protect" us, and the police are clearly there to protect the State, not us, what is the way to survive this overwhelming patriarchal violence: I wrote a chapter in The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls asking that feministgiant.com/p/how-many-rap…

After I explained to a club manager why I beat up a manwho sexually assaulted me, the manager looked at my Beloved and asked me “Why didn’t you let your husband take care of it?”

I almost beat him up too. feministgiant.com/p/i-beat-my-as…

I don’t want to be “protected.” I want patriarchy to stop protecting misogynist violence.

The pandemic has exacerbated all that patriarchal fuckery. I made this in April:

What fucking world is this? 🎥 @rerutled

When we emerge from this fucking pandemic, during which so many women were hurt by a virus outside and a terrorist inside, what will change when home is where the hurt is?

🎥 @rerutled

“How long must we wait for men and boys to stop murdering us, to stop beating us and to stop raping us? How many rapists must we kill?"and this episode of Q&A was banned for, among reasons, my questions.

“I have every right to burn and smash things."

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And pay attention to Mexican feminists and the #NiUnaMenos movement amp.theguardian.com/global-develop…