If you like the audiobook of my two books, which I recorded, you will like a new FEMINIST GIANT feature I’m launching on Sunday: audio versions of my essays.
Here is an excerpt of me reading from my first book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution on #SoundCloud: the dedication, epigraph, and Introduction. soundcloud.com/macaudio-2/hea…
But because she is white, evangelical, and a woman--a rich one at that--Greene is not in an orange jumpsuit locked up in a U.S. prison camp in Cuba. Instead, she is a member of the House of Representatives in the most powerful country in the world.
Greene was dangerous and vile long before she was elected but because much of her vileness was directed at Muslims, Black people, and Jews, Republicans shrugged and carried on being the craven shits they are, happy to throw their weight behind anyone who brings them votes.
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
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…
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 #WhyISayFuckfeministgiant.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. #WhyISayFuckpenguinrandomhouse.com/books/609114/t…
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. feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…#WhyISayFuck
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.
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.