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21 Jul, 6 tweets, 5 min read

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1416918521213341698

I channel Killmonger, as problematic as he is, in this essay on #Nefertiti and perimenopause. #ThisIs53 #Egypt

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1416918521213341698

When museums in the West continue to display what their colonizing ancestors stole from us, they magnify a historical theft with their contemporary insistence that they control our narrative. #Egypt #Nefertiti #ThisIs53 #Perimenopause
feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…

In 2007, the Neues Museum, Berlin, refused to return Nefertiti's bust to #Egypt for an exhibition, claiming it was too fragile to be moved. The audacity: asking for permission to display your ancestors’ heritage and being denied it by the descendants of those who robbed you of it

“How do you think your ancestors got these? Do you think they paid a fair price? Or did they take it… like they took everything else?” Killmonger to museum director in Black Panther
(How I look at every Egyptian treasure stolen and plundered and in museums across the world)

When I stand before #Nefertiti and vow she will go home, I am standing in my right to my history and my present.

It is that maturity that insists on writing an ode to my 53-year-old body. This is my ode 👇🏽 #ThisIs53 #Perimenopause feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…

And I started FEMINIST GIANT so that I can write about #perimenopause and Nefertiti and Bruce Lee and Killmonger and stuff like that.

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