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9 Aug, 6 tweets, 3 min read
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how I got my first period in 10 months after I got my 2nd vaccine shot. Before I continue: anti-vaxxers fuck off.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
I linked to a survey documenting people's experiences with vaccination and menstruation. conducted by Dr. Kate Clancy and Dr.Katharine Lee. They are both interviewed in this new article h/t @rerutled npr.org/sections/healt…
"New research does suggest there's at least a plausible route by which vaccines could alter menstruation. Yale's Alice Lu-Culligan says that recent studies show immune cells play a role in both building up and breaking down the uterine lining during a cycle." #COVIDVaccination Text: New research does sug...
I am grateful and relieved to be fully vaccinated. And if the time comes to get a booster, I will. Anti-vaxxers: fuck all the way off #COVIDVaccination
My first vaccine shot--in April--was AstraZeneca. I got a Pfizer one for the second shot in June.

So delighted and grateful I am to have had my “Fauci ouchie” that I dressed in a much-loved gold sequin gown for it -- to celebrate! 🎥 @rerutled
If you prefer audio essays, here's the audio version of my essay that I recorded. You'll find more audio essays at feministgiant.com

soundcloud.com/mona-eltahawy-…

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11 Aug
Today is my parents' 55th wedding anniversary. They were 23 years old when they got married. My mum made her own wedding dress! They met in medical school in Cairo and have achieved their career goals together, as partners and equals. Happy Anniversary Mama and Baba! Many more! A photograph of Mona's moth...
My parents had me a year after they married. On Aug. 2, I showed up at their doorstep for a surprise visit - our 1st since Nov 2019. I am so lucky and grateful to have been able to spend the past week with them. I wrote this about my family and nostalgia feministgiant.com/p/essay-exiled…
Yest I left my parents & came to see my brother & his family--1st visit since Nov. 2019. When my brother & his wife are back from work, we'll call our parents to wish them Happy Anniversary.

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-Compensating Caregivers in Argentina
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Subscribe - it's free, no paywall or ads.

If you can pay, it helps to keep it free.

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9 Aug
I wrote this in Dec. 2020. It had been a year since I'd seen my parents and siblings and I was wondering how it would feel to reunite. A week ago, I showed up unannounced at my parents' doorstep to reunite our hearts. I am grateful. feministgiant.com/p/essay-exiled…
5 days after I arrived, my mum said she woke up with a song by Abdel-Halim Hafez on her mind. He is the singer around whom I wrote the essay, which examines being in "ghorba": exile, estrangement. So I put his songs on a speaker, replicating our weekends of nostalgia in London.
A week after I arrived, my dad's oldest brother died in Cairo.

Grieving is compounded by distance.

My parents have not been able to visit Egypt and see their siblings since the pandemic began. Like so many around the world, hearts in exile and longing. feministgiant.com/p/essay-exiled…
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6 Aug
Every time I see Ashli Babbitt trending, I will remind you:

Ashli Babbitt never imagined the Capitol Police would shoot her because the police rarely shoot white women, unless it’s a cop who shoots his wife at home. feministgiant.com/p/white-women-… #January6th
She never imagined she'd survive fighting for regime change “over there” only to die fighting for regime change “over here.” A 14yr Air Force vet who fought in Iraq & Afghanistan, she was the only person shot by Capitol Police while trying to storm the Congress of her own country
Babbitt and other white women who stormed the Capitol were supporters of QAnon, a far-right conspiracy movement that says Trump has been secretly fighting deep state enemies and a cabal of Satan-worshipping cannibals operating a child sex-trafficking ring.
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6 Aug
Since this fucking pandemic started I've wondered:
-Is it pandemic or perimenopause?
-Is it pandemic or allergies?
I was too scared to ask:
-What happened to my ability to desire - is it pandemic or perimenopause that wrecked it?!
If something scares me, I know I must write it
I feared that I had lost a life force I had fought so hard for.

I did not know whether it was the stress and grief of a global pandemic or the unpredictability of perimenopause that seemed to have wrenched open a chasm that swallowed up my desire.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-des…
I wasn’t paying attention at first, to be honest: to either my perimenopause or the pandemic. And so when they both collided, I was constantly wondering:

- Is it perimenopause or the pandemic?

And so I wrote about falling apart.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-fallin…
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