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20 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
TwitterLand: I've had technical difficulties this week that have affected the reach of my latest essay. Please share and retweet and subscribe! 💜✊🏽❤️ thank you!
It's about a TV show that's about a Muslim women's punk band which is really about Godzilla and being free!

feministgiant.com/p/too-loud-swe…
And subscribe to FEMINIST GIANT!.

It's free, no paywall or ads. If you can pay, it helps keep it free.

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And if you're unable to access FEMINIST GIANT, try using a cellular connection only. Turn of wifi just to test.

I changed DNS and local DNS servers--through which you get wifi--are catching up.

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21 Jun
TW: rape, sexual abuse

The trial has started in the case of a French woman who shot dead a man she says abused her years - first as her stepfather then later as her husband. Valerie Bacot was just 12 when Daniel Polette began raping her.

bbc.com/news/world-eur… h/t @lakadyn
He was jailed but later returned to the family home and she says he resumed the abuse.

She says he forced her to marry him and fathered her four children.

Ms Bacot admits killing him in 2016 but more than 600,000 people have signed a petition calling for her release. #France
Valerie Bacot's trial comes after a week in which 3 women were killed by former partners. France has one of the highest rates of femicide in Europe.

Femicide in France is classed as the murder of a woman by a current or former partner.
theguardian.com/world/2021/jun…
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21 Jun
In #Egypt, the daughters of the working class are put on trial and sentenced to 6 and 10 years in prison for their TikTok accounts, which allegedly "violated family values." middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-tik…
And the sons of the wealthy and powerful are not put on trial for gang rape because "family values" are a cudgel used against women and queer people, especially those who aren't rich #Egypt thenationalnews.com/mena/egypt/egy…
It is a fuck-this-shit moment for Egyptian women. And the rage and reckoning are the fuel of revolution.

Not a cis-gender heterosexual dick-swinging revolution. We already had one of those almost 10 years ago.

A feminist revolution. feministgiant.com/p/why-do-they-…
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16 Jun
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.
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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!

bbc.com/news/business-…
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