Michaels aren’t the only language fascists. One of the reasons this episode of Australian TV show Q&A was banned after it aired is because I said “Fuck” 10 times (they counted) and a govt media watchdog analyses each and every time

“Panellist Mona Eltahawy clearly communicated that her use of coarse language was intended to be provocative & that she used it to highlight the function of polite discourse in suppressing marginalised female voices within a male patriarchy.”
Patriarchy reserves for itself the power to offend, the power to be obscene. And yet it wastes no time in policing women’s mouths as vehemently as it does the genitals of anyone who is not a cisgender heterosexual man. feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
Profanity is so important to me - politically and personally important - I wrote a whole chapter on it in The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls. My next book should just be called Fuck Off, Kitten penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609114/t…
And to see why Fuck & other profanities are important to women in the revolution, read how Polish feminists used the word during their revolution vs their right wing govt & priests and how Ugandan feminist @DrStellaNyanzi is a profane revolutionary feministgiant.com/p/fuck-is-a-fe…

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18 Mar
Fuck the white supremacist patriarchy and its protection and enabling of white cis men and their racist gendered violence. I made this in April 2020 and it’s a question I ask every day since then: What fucking world is this?
🎥 @rerutled

Who but a white Christian man who just killed eight people could say he loved "God and guns" and that he went on a shooting rampage to eliminate the source of his temptation?

Muslim men have been dragged off planes simply for speaking Arabic.
I will not say his name. He is a white Christian terrorist. And these three things - white, man, evangelical - are key because in the US they give you miles and miles of leeway.

From storming the Capitol to electing a sexual predator to QAnon: white evangelicals & impunity.
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16 Mar
I am happy that more and more people I love and care about are being vaccinated.

Still, there is no “going back to normal” after a pandemic. Refuse. Demand that we emerge into a better world.

I made this in May 2020 to say “Fuck normal.”

🎥 @rerutled

I am especially thinking of women across the world - thousands of whom have been protesting offline and on social media/holding vigils against cis men’s violence, from the highest levels of government to streets as we go home to homes under lockdown.

That’s normal? Fuck normal.
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15 Mar
Men and women of all social classes were wearing eyeliner as early as 6000 BC in Egypt. I buzzed my hair because I feel freer this way. And my eyeliner is more obvious 📷 @rerutled Mona in a magenta turtleneck looking at the camera
The hieroglyphic term for makeup artist derives from the root “sesh,” which translates to write or engrave. As I hold that eyeliner brush, I feel like a calligrapher, writing a letter of love to myself

feministgiant.com/p/deliberate-b…
I loved my red hair, which I had for eight years. But this buzzcut is a whole new level of power, that I write about here feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ki…
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15 Mar
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I don't want to be protected. I want patriarchy to stop protecting and enabling the violence of cis men
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14 Mar
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
The hieroglyphic term for makeup artist derives from the root “sesh,” which translates to write or engrave. As I hold that eyeliner brush, I feel like a calligrapher, writing a letter of love to myself feministgiant.com/p/deliberate-b…
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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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