Thread by @monaeltahawy

I publish my weekly essays for FEMINIST GIANT on Sunday. Here are the past month's:

"They said, ‘You are a savage and dangerous woman.'
I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous," Nawal El Saadawi, the Egyptian feminist who died last week.

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1376171815345733635

"The world is full of sexually frustrated women who are are taught, and obey, that they must wait until they are married (to a man) to have sex, and yet I’m unaware of any massacres committed by those women." On the Atlanta terrorist

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1373634983156449284?s=20

Feminism is not: supporting a woman simply because she is a woman, especially when her vote hurts mostly Black, Indigenous and women of colour. On #BespokeFeminism, which is tailored to perfectly fit just the individual wearing it.

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1368898076782563329?s=20

Being a writer, I am particularly delighted that the hieroglyphic term for makeup artist derives from the root “sesh,”-- to write/engrave. On the #DeliberateBeauty of eyeliner

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1365693378642518019?s=20

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