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16 Nov, 5 tweets, 3 min read
FEMINIST GIANT is growing! And part of that growth is Arabic translations of my essays by the brilliant @itmeansagift. Here is her translation of my essay on being childfree by choice

feministgiant.com/p/--6dd?r=50le…
The 1st of my essays that @itmeansagift translated was this one on abortion.

It's difficult to write about abortion, being childfree by choice & menopause (the next essay she'll be translating) in any language. It's important my
essays are now in Arabic
feministgiant.com/p/-
In addition to Arabic, I have also introduced audio versions of my essays. Here is Unmothering, the original version of my essay on being childfree by choice with the audio link at the top of the essay.

Join my Soundcloiud! feministgiant.com/p/unmothering?…
Audio essays, Arabic translations, and keeping FEMINIST GIANT free: all with the aim of making my work accessible to as many people as possible.

That is all made possible thanks to those who have chosen paid subscriptions to my free newsletter. THANK YOU

feministgiant.com
My audio essays live here. Follow me on Soundcloud!

Hear and follow Mona Eltahawy on #SoundCloud soundcloud.com/mona-eltahawy-…

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17 Nov
If you’re wondering where along my menopause journey I am, it is far enough that if I hear a voice in my head saying "Oh my god, you can't write about that!" I WILL IN FACT WRITE ABOUT THAT.
And that is an absolute advantage of being 54 years old and just weeks if not days away from post-menopause.

Fuck "you can't."

Watch me.

feministgiant.com/p/moisturize-y…
I have exciting news about menopause coming soon.

No, it's not that I am now officially post-menopausal. I wish!

Until I can announce it, here is where I defy that "Oh my god, you can't write about that!" voice

feministgiant.com/p/coming-soon?…
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17 Nov
I'm learning, much to my thrill and awe, that one of the greatest gifts of the transition known as menopause is shamelessness. It's as if instead of shedding the lining of my uterus, I'm shedding the lining of patriarchal fuckery that I was socialized into feministgiant.com/p/moisturize-y…
Patriarchy deploys shame like a drone: it shadows you, ready to take you out any minute, exhausting you by keeping you forever aware of its presence to the detriment of all other things that you could be investing your attention in.

When you're shameless, you cannot be shamed.
Find the places where you are ruled by should not/would not/could not and defy, disobey, and disrupt the patriarchy by knowing—and vowing—that you shall, will and can.

You cannot be shamed if you are shameless. And moisturize your vagina! feministgiant.com/p/moisturize-y…
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17 Nov
My paternal grandmother had 8 children. My maternal grandmother had 11 (pregnant 14 times). My mother is the eldest of those children & has 3 children of her own. I'm the eldest of those children & I'm glad to have none of my own.Glad this is now in Arabic thanks to @itmeansagift
I love having a newsletter because I write what I want when I want.

Over the past year, I've radically changed the way I work and write and what I write about.

My essays have become more personal which often mean more dangerous. And I didn't want the risk to be only in English
It took me years to be able to write about having two abortions.

And to now have that essay also available in Arabic thanks to @itmeansagift excellent translation is especially important to me.

feministgiant.com/p/-?r=50le&utm…
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16 Nov
FEMINIST GIANT is now available in Arabic! @itmeansagift has translated my essay on abortion below. On Tuesday, I'm publishing her Arabic translation of my essay Unmothering, on being childfree by choice.
My paternal grandmother had 8 children. My maternal grandmother had 11 children (she was pregnant 14 times). My mother is the eldest of those children and she has 3 children of her own. I am the eldest of those children and I am glad to have none of my own feministgiant.com/p/unmothering
Also coming up in Arabic, my essay on menopause feministgiant.com/p/moisturize-y…
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7 Nov
#ThisIs54

It’s not my birthday. I want you to see a 54yo woman. I’m saying “Here is a midlife woman. Look.” At a time when it seems that every time I look away, my body has changed.
📷 @rerutled Mona in a silver sequin jacket over a black tank top. She ha
I want to be seen. Not to be told, as I often have, that I don’t “look my age.” That is not the compliment some people think it is. I understand that my power comes from saying “I am a middle aged woman. Look at me, breasts and belly and all.” feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
Not for all the money in the world would I go back to being younger. My 20s w/out exception and at least half my 30s were miserable because I felt I had no power. Now here I am,with more power, being told I “didn’t look” this age I feel I’ve finally earned feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-des…
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7 Nov
I do not want to be protected from the violence of cis men. I want patriarchy to stop protecting violent cis men. 

I made this in April 2020 about Femicide and I’m still asking the same question.

🎥 @rerutled

Patriarchal violence: intimate partner terrorism. THAT has been a GLOBAL PANDEMIC for ages. Where is the vaccine against THAT global epidemic?

🎥 @rerutled
My essay is also available in audio soundcloud.com/mona-eltahawy-…
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