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14 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
#Egypt this week: a man was arrested after he was caught on a closed circuit camera sexually assaulting a 7 year old girl aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/9/…
#Egypt this week: a 34 year old woman died after “falling” from her sixth story balcony after her landlord, doorman and another resident of her building attacked her for having a male colleague over to her apartment.

english.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2…
As girls and as women, patriarchy insists on owning our bodies.

Patriarchy enables and protects cis men’s sexual assaults and violence against our bodies.

Fuck the patriarchy in every time zone and every universe. It is with that message that I wrote my first book. Cover of Headscarves and Hy...
I wrote this 9 years ago:

“Our political revolutions will not succeed unless they are accompanied by revolutions of thought — social, sexual, and cultural revolutions that topple the Mubaraks in our minds as well as our bedrooms.”

foreignpolicy.com/2012/04/23/why…

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Eyeliner is one of my joys. Men and women of all social classes were wearing eyeliner as early as 6000 BC in Egypt. 📷 @rerutled Image
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14 Mar
I had men in my apartment in Cairo when I lived there. This could’ve been me. Fuck this shit. This fucking week. My family lived in Clapham for years. I used to walk across the common to get to school. Fuck this shit.
I don’t know anything about this woman who was killed for having a man in her apartment, other than it could’ve been me.

Egypt, my country of birth, is the country with the largest # of women and girls subjected to FGM which is fueled by determination to control female sexuality
So a form of resistance is to say:

I own my body.

It is my right to have sex with whomever I want whenever I want (w/their consent obvs).

It is my right to have sexual with a man/men or a woman/women. My right. Because I own my body.

That is the core of the sexual revolution
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14 Mar
I want a world in which I don’t call the police because the police don’t protect women. I don’t want to be protected. Protection is conditional. I want patriarchy to stop protecting violent cis men. I want to be free of violence. (April 2020) 🎥 @rerutled
Police do not protect everyone. Ask Black, Indigenous, women of colour, trans women, sex workers.

Police in London did this to a woman at a vigil for a woman murdered by a police officer. It esp shocks many because murdered woman & this woman are white
And remember home is not safer.

This pandemic has been a horrifying reminder, with a spike globally in intimate partner terrorism and domestic abuse

Where do you go when home is where the hurt is?

🎥 @rerutled (from April 2020).

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“I wrote this book with enough rage to fuel a rocket.”

The opening line to The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls.

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