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20 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
“I wrote this book with enough rage to fuel a rocket. I knew I had to write it while I was high but on the glory of beating up a man who had sexually assaulted me.”

Opening sentences of The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls

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After I explained to a club manager why do beat up the man, 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. 

#IBeatMyAssaulter feministgiant.com/p/i-beat-my-as…
I don’t want to be protected. Protection is conditional. I want patriarchy to stop protecting violent cis men. I don’t want to be protected. I want to be free, free of violence, and free of cis men’s violence. (April 2020) 🎥 @rerutled

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19 Mar
FEMINIST GIANT Global Roundup compiled by Samiha Hossain:

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A police officer in England has been charged with abducting and murdering #SarahEverard. You should also know about the police officer in Peru who has confessed to murdering two women. Read Samiha Hossain's Global Roundup feministgiant.com/p/global-round…
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19 Mar
I'm working on this week's essay for FEMINIST GIANT and I'm thinking of just collecting my Twitter rants this week under the headline SAVE US FROM THE BAD DAYS OF WHITE MEN
I've been wondering for a while when the profiling of white men will start
Understand that I don't want anyone profiled or surveilled. I want you instead to see how much whiteness, especially white evangelicals, get away with. Especially racist and misogynist cis white men.
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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
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-…
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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.
Is this 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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