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23 Jun, 5 tweets, 3 min read
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Patriarchy reserves for itself the power to offend, the power to be obscene. And yet it wastes no time in policing women’s mouths as vehemently as it does the genitals of anyone who is not a cisgender heterosexual man.
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The obsession with civility in the United States is bipartisan and white, and often directed at women, especially Black women and women of colour.

The less power a woman has, the less freedom she is given to curse.
I launched FEMINIST GIANT to write as freely as I speak

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25 Jun
I am working on a 2021 #Pride reading list that will include books by authors I spoke with for the panel co-produced by FEMINIST GIANT and @strandbookstore. Until then, here is 2020's list and a few other books I've recommended patreon.com/posts/38315403
A longer review of Koolaids patreon.com/posts/36957391
A review of The Name I Call Myself patreon.com/posts/41198666
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24 Jun
I understand the need to tell Matt Gaetz et al to shut the fuck up, but a "top U.S. military leader " isn't the one to do it:
-For many parts of the world, the U.S. military is the embodiment of white rage
-Military vets were overrepresented in those charged w/Jan 6 involvement
Remember Ashli Babbitt: The 14-year Air Force veteran who fought in both Iraq and Afghanistan was the only person shot by Capitol Police while trying to storm the Congress of her own country. feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…
An NPR analysis has found that nearly 1 in 5 people charged over their alleged involvement in the attack on the U.S. Capitol appear to have a military history. npr.org/2021/01/21/958…
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23 Jun
I love that the NYT is covering the sweary cheerleader victory because when I was still a contributing opinion writer for the NYT, James Bennet, the editor of the opinion pages, insisted that I stop saying “fuck" on Twitter. So I launched #WhyISayFuck feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
He insisted I especially stop saying “flying fuck,” as in “I don’t give a flying fuck” on social media. Not in the columns that I wrote for the paper, but on Twitter. I was never an employee of the Times. He said the word “fuck” wasn’t conducive to conversation.
The next day, I launched #WhyISayFuck on Twitter, published an essay--in another publication--about why I say “fuck,” and wrote a proposal for a book that called on women to practise 7 “sins” I believe are necessary to destroy the patriarchy. #WhyISayFuck penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609114/t…
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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.
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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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20 Jun
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!

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