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16 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I watched-more like inhaled-the new TV show We Are Lady Parts, twice. And I wrote this 👇🏽
Muslim women are caught between a rock – an Islamophobic, racist and misogynistic right wing – and a hard place – misogynists in our Muslim communities. Neither the rock nor the hard place give a flying fuck about Muslim women.
To be a Muslim woman in the so-called West, is to stand in the middle point of a see-saw, engaged in a perilous balancing act of telling the rock of racist Islamophobes and the hard place of the misogynist community to fuck off, all the while trying not to fall off.
We Are Lady Parts has jumped off the see-saw altogether. 
It refuses to play with either side of that see-saw. It has jumped into a space of its own creation and it is from that place that it beckons to us, promising liberation. feministgiant.com/p/too-loud-swe…

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15 Jun
Muslim women are caught between a rock – an Islamophobic, racist and misogynistic right wing – and a hard place – misogynists in our Muslim communities. Neither the rock nor the hard place give a flying fuck about Muslim women.
Men--and white people-- are thankfully incidental to We Are Lady Parts. They are the supporting cast--eye candy, lovers or husbands, irritants or racists. And what a relief!

feministgiant.com/p/too-loud-swe…
Too often, we are not heard above the noise our men and white people make--noise they make often about us.

And too often, we exhaust our voices defending our men from what white people say about them.
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15 Jun
"So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white women that they’re lucky to live in the US not Saudi Arabia/Iran,that (they) didn't pay enough attention to the theocracy that white supremacy was building right here" feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney… 👇🏽h/t @rerutled Tweet by Jonathan Merrittt: The musical number at the Southe
Liberal or conservative, white women in the U.S. are more obsessed with Muslim women and whatever they think is oppressing Muslim women than they are at recognizing their own oppressions.
feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…
White liberal women want to save Muslim women and white conservative women want to feel superior to Muslim women and so refuse to see anything in their beliefs that consigns them to the subservience and submission they think Muslim women must live with.
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15 Jun
Watching We Are Lady Parts, I wast trying to decide if I was Saira--a glorious and combustible concoction of tattoos, rage, and fuck you’s--or Ayesha--a glorious cocktail of eyeliner, rage, and fuck you’s.
I decided I did not have to choose because each of my life stages found herself reflected in We Are Lady Parts: be it my days in hijab, my foul mouth, or my tattoos and eyeliner. I did keep yelling "Where was this show 30 years ago?!" feministgiant.com/p/too-loud-swe… #WeAreLadyParts
One of the reasons I started FEMINIST GIANT was so that I can write what I want--essays about Muslim women punks as well as about being childfree by choice--and how I want--fuck you's and all!

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14 Jun
New Essay:

Too Loud, Swears Too Much, Goes Too Far

The emancipatory power of We Are Lady Parts

feministgiant.com/p/too-loud-swe… #WeAreLadyParts
Men--and white people-- are thankfully incidental to We Are Lady Parts. They are the supporting cast--eye candy, lovers or husbands, irritants or racists.

And what a relief Too often, we are not heard above the noise our men and white people make--noise they make often about us.

And too often, we exhaust our voices defending our men from what white people say about them. Text: To be a Muslim woman in the so-called West, is to stan
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14 Jun
Men--and white people-- are thankfully incidental to We Are Lady Parts. They are the supporting cast--eye candy, lovers or husbands, irritants or racists. #WeAreLadyParts
And what a relief because ...too often, we are not heard above the noise our men and white people make--noise they make often about us.

And too often, we exhaust our voices defending our men from what white people say about them. feministgiant.com/p/too-loud-swe… #WeAreLadyParts
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14 Jun
To have had a TV show like We Are Lady Parts while I was in my 20s, would have freed up so much of my cosmic energy, I might have truly taken over the world. My new words 👇🏽#WeAreLadyParts
To be a Muslim woman is to stand in the middle of a see-saw, saying fuck you to racist Islamophobes on one hand and misogynists in the community on the other, all while trying not to fall off.

#WeAreLadyParts has jumped off the see-saw altogether. feministgiant.com/p/too-loud-swe…
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