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10 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Thousands of female farmers held sit-ins and a hunger strike in India’s capital on Monday in protests on International Women’s Day against new agricultural laws. apnews.com/article/narend… h/t @MetalRabbit13
The demonstrations were held at multiple sites on the fringes of New Delhi where tens of thousands of farmers have camped for more than three months to protest against the laws they say will leave them poorer and at the mercy of big corporations.
FEMINIST GIANT intern Inaara Merani has been including since December news of female farmers who are protesting in India in her Global Roundup. Subscribe to FEMINIST GIANT & stay up to date with global feminist resistance
Every Wednesday, Inaara Merani compiles the Global Roundup, and every Friday it is brought to you by Samiha Hossain.

Subscribe to FEMINIST GIANT for news of feminist resistance to global patriarchal fuckery feministgiant.com/p/coming-soon?…

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11 Mar
“We're looking at grief as the hidden health crisis in this whole pandemic," she said. "One of the reasons we need a national grief strategy is to provide a coherent response to an urgent public health crisis." 

I’m writing about this v soon google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.…
"Grief is hard no matter what, no matter where you are in the world, what time in history," she said. "But trying to do grief in a healthy way during a pandemic just magnifies the barriers to a healthy grief process,” Andrea Warnick, a nurse and psychotherapist.
I know there are laughing circles/clubs - I've heard of some in India.

I'm looking into whether there are grieving circles/clubs. Something along those lines.
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11 Mar
Watched the most recent Queen Sugar and cried and cried and cried.

I think we need ritual crying. A way to get all the sadness out.

I am individually fine but have so much sadness in my heart it hurts.

If your heart hurts with sadness, I hear you and send you 💜✊🏽❤️
I am alive, have food and shelter. As I said, I’m individually fine.

I’m sad for all of us. For the horrors of this past year. And for all who have and continue to hurt.

It’s like I/we have tapped into this vortex of sadness, collectively and individually grieving.
And now watching There’s Something About Mary with @rerutled for some silliness.
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10 Mar
I've been writing about women I call the Sorority Of Pinky Swears (SOPS) and looking at their hollow feminism tailored to fit just their needs, which I call Bespoke Feminism. @AngryBlackLady coined A Well Actually of Chads (AWAOC) for male counterparts feministgiant.com/p/the-bespoke-…
Feminism: fights to destroy patriarchy--that many-tentacled octopus of oppressions such as misogyny, racism, homophobia, classism, ableism, transphobia, ageism, etc

Bespoke Feminism: fights whatever hurts its individual wearer and fuck the rest of us.
SOPS (Sorority of Pinky Swears) conveniently aligns with SOP - Standard Operating Procedure.

Bespoke Feminism is a form of white feminism and is the antithesis of intersectionality, as coined by Prof. Kimberle Crenshaw.

google.com/amp/s/time.com…
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10 Mar
Today’s colour 📷 @rerutled Mona in profile in a blue top with green eyelinerA pot of green eyeliner
I particularly like the green because as I link in my essay: "Thick coats of black and green eye makeup partially made from lead may have boosted the immune systems of ancient Egyptians, a (2010) study suggests." nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…
In fact, “according to ancient Egyptian manuscripts, eye makeup was believed to have a magical role, in which the gods Horus and Ra would protect wearers against several illnesses.” feministgiant.com/p/deliberate-b…
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9 Mar
I've been writing about women I call the Sorority Of Pinky Swears (SOPS) and looking at their hollow feminism tailored to fit just their needs, which I call Bespoke Feminism. In the U.S. it would fall under white feminism. I coined SOPS & Bespoke Feminism to take it global. 1/
Examples in the US: Senator Kyrsten Sinemal and the two other white female Democratic senators who voted against the minimum wage increase. Sinema's office said it was sexist to question her callous thumbs down gesture that accompanied her vote feministgiant.com/p/the-bespoke-…
It was a reminder that:

Feminism is not: supporting a woman simply because she is a woman.

Sexism is not: any and all criticism of a woman.

And also the way Sarah Huckabee Sanders insisted that anyone opposing Gina Haspel as CIA head was sexist
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9 Mar
#Egyptian police arrested a man allegedly caught on a surveillance camera assaulting a young girl in widely shared footage that caused public outrage. aje.io/dh59l
It is not clear exactly when the video was recorded, but it went viral on social media on Monday night with many users calling for the perpetrator’s immediate arrest. It showed a man abusing a child near the staircase of a residential building in the Maadi district in Cairo.
He was confronted by a woman who opened the door of her apartment, an interruption that enabled the girl to escape, footage showed. The woman then pointed to a surveillance camera recording the incident. #Egypt
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