It is such a privilege to be vaccinated. Thank you Vi who administered the shot. I’m so grateful and hope everyone around the world can be vaccinated soon. We must demand and push for vaccine equity. 🎥 @rerutled
And Beloved @rerutled got dressed up too! Vi kindly took this picture of the two of us after she’d vaccinated us both - we were so excited and grateful! Get vaccinated as soon as you can! #COVID19Vaccine#AstraZenaca
Demand and push for vaccine equity. Vaccines must be available to all around the world. Read this important thread #COVID19Vaccine
Thank you science! Thank you makers of vaccines! It’s been a good day for @rerutled and me. Let’s demand vaccine equity so that everyone can be vaccinated. #COVID19Vaccine#AstraZenaca
For 1st picture in this thread: apologies for omitting alt text. Here it is: Mona in a full length gold sequined dress, standing on a deck in the sunshine. She is wearing rings on both hands and a bangle around each wrist and a black lace chocker, and is smiling at the camera
Thank you thank you all for the kind words and wishes! They mean a lot.
Love and solidarity 💜✊🏽❤️
I posted the thread above as solidarity for all who can, to get vaccinated as soon as possible. And to reiterate that it is immoral and unjust that rich countries are refusing to waive the rights on #COVID19Vaccinecnbc.com/2021/04/22/cov…
"Vaccine roll-out has so far largely mirrored the inequities that marked the rest of the pandemic," @hrwhrw.org/news/2021/04/0…
The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls is out in Ireland and the UK today! Thank you @TrampPress for choosing my book and thank you @FEEKRA for this glorious cover! New FEMINIST GIANT essay for publication day 👉🏽 feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-amb…
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Ambition is one of The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls, which is out in Ireland and the U.K. today.
My ambition is much bigger than doing whatever a man can. I want to be free.
I have a date with a vaccine on Friday and you'd better believe that I'll be wearing fucking sequins because fucking finally! And yes there will be a picture.
I know because of massive inequalities around the world that we have a long way to go before everyone can be vaccinated. I am grateful that my first jab - which will be AstraZeneca - is on Friday. May we reach vaccine equity soon.
I believe that the risks for me from catching Covid are greater than the risk of taking AstraZeneca. #COVID19Vaccine
My latest essay highlights police brutality in the U.S., UK, Egypt, and Mexico. It is too easy to think another country's police is brutal--to point to "over there." Take a look at police "over here" too. And ask who protects us from police?
Who the police protect is conditional on who you are. I give an example from India, where the police often fail to record or investigate when lower-caste Dalit women are targeted for rape by upper caste men who usually escape justice. feministgiant.com/p/essay-fuck-t…
In the U.S.: “Black women and women of color who experience gendered violence rarely report to police, because of the systemic misogyny and racism that leads to survivors not being believed or supported,” write 8 to Abolition organizers Leila Raven, Mon Mohpatrra, and Rachel Kuo
Makiah Bryant, a 16yo Black girl, was murdered by police who she had called for help. They arrived and instead of breaking up a fight between girls, they shot her 4 times.
There is a hierarchy of protection: the further we are from wealthy, white, cisgender, heterosexual, able bodied men, the less likely we are to be protected.
I wrote that essay on Sunday, but can post it daily with a new name of a Black or person of colour police kill in the US.
And I don't give a fuck about what police say or their fucked up "reasons" for killing Makiah. They murdered a teenage girl. Who the fuck shoots a girl four times except thugs in a uniform who are licensed to kill? Fuck the police.
"I am writing to you because I want you to know that “getting along” & “uniting” & “being civil” w/white supremacist patriarchy makes you complicit in its crimes. We must never “get along” w/fascists.We must never “unite” w/white supremacists.We must always “argue” w/patriarchy"