Take a few minutes to read Hiromi Goto on aging: "if we are lucky and privileged enough a great many of us will grow to become old women...I’m writing toward who I will become." h/t @OMGchronicles vancouversun.com/entertainment/…
Imagining queer futures:
"Many different people come out at different times in their life. Setting Kumiko’s story in a queer neighbourhood is a way to open up a story space for how people...might imagine a gay life for themselves."
And fighting dirty:
"if you’re fighting against forces that hold incredibly greater resources and power than you and your movement...it’s never going to be a fair fight....the terms of engagement will never be equal....fighting dirty seems to be the only choice left available."
Also, check out this fucking-great-title-of-a-graphic-novel about a 76-year-old Asian-Canadian woman who leaves a senior home and goest to live in a queer neighbourhood.
I am finally writing that essay on grief and grieving. Those of us who did not die, and who live in places lifting lockdowns, must prepare to take our individual grief out into the world and find our place in communal mourning, all while being urged and cajoled into "happiness."
When I moved to London in 1975 at the age of 7, the first time I went downstairs to play with the other children, they asked me if I was a boy or a girl. My English wasn’t so good and I ran back home.
I am writing about Hateshepsut: Egypt’s woman-god-king.
The King Herself.
She/he/they. Why did it take me so long to learn that Hatshepsut - who for more than 20 years was the most powerful person in the ancient world - alternated pronouns? Are you a girl? Are you a boy?
At first it was to liberate myself from what had once given me power so that I could fashion anew my strength. As I explain here feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ki…
I first wrote about @IlhanMN and @RashidaTlaib when they were elected. I have lost count of how many times I have said or written variations of the following: Muslim women are not monolithic. And here they were as perfect examples! nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
Remember when Trump said of Khizr Khan's wife: "His wife… if you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say...She probably, maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. You tell me.”
I rolled my eyes at Trump’s racism and misogyny. But now, I like to think that his words conjured a hex. I like to imagine a coven of us American-Muslim women working to bring about Trump’s worst nightmare: not one but 2 Muslim women with plenty to say nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
Rep. Rashda Tlaib is the first Palestinian-American woman elected to the U.S. Congress. And it shows! She and Rep. Ilhan Omar are the first two Muslim women elected to Congress. And it shows! feministgiant.com/p/the-disrupto…
It shows in the ways they have challenged the sacrosanct U.S, support for Israel, creating a “tectonic” shift among Democrats towards a country accustomed to unquestioned bipartisan support.
It shows in the way they express support for Palestinians as an expression of both their identities and also their progressive politics. Neither was in Congress during Israel’s bombardment of Gaza in 2014, and the difference their presence makes shows
Omar and Tlaib were not in Congress during Israel's 6-week bombardment of Gaza in 2014. During Israel's bombardment of Gaza earlier this month, the 2 congresswomen--first 2 Muslim women and first Palestinian-American woman elected to Congress--their presence was vital.
It is thrilling to hear Rep. @IlhanMN call a fascist what he is: a far-right ethno-nationalist