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Mona Eltahawy

@monaeltahawy

2 Dec

Read this article about Dr. Meera Shah, a New York physician who monthly commutes to South Bend, Indiana — an 800-mile trip across four states — to perform abortions. I am grateful to her and abortion providers everywhere washingtonpost.com/national/this-…

In 2020, I was asked to blurb Dr. Shah’s powerful You’re the Only One I’ve Told: The Stories Behind Abortion, in which she shares the personal narratives of people who have had abortion but who have rarely if ever told anyone. youretheonlyoneivetold.com

https://twitter.com/DrDaliaDZ/status/1298350860494409731?s=20

I enthusiastically blurbed Dr. Shah’s book because the narratives are vital and because she is one of the few women of colour doctors I know of who write openly about providing abortion care.

https://twitter.com/DrDaliaDZ/status/1298350860494409731?s=20

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Mona Eltahawy

@monaeltahawy

2 Dec

No matter how often those of us from authoritarian countries and those of us who have fought fascism -- be it via military rule/rule of religious fundamentalists -- warned & warned, white Americans arrogantly shook their head that it couldn’t happen here. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…

And no matter how often we warned you that the fate of nations is not a straight line bending towards a “manifest destiny,” you only saw Iran & women in chadors or Afghanistan & women in burqas and refused to believe that their fate awaited you.

That fate never comes overnight.

Just as Trump was not an aberration, but rather a fruition of decades of white supremacist, misogynist, bigoted rot, so too is the conservative dominance of the Supreme Court, which conservatives have worked for since the early 1970s.

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Mona Eltahawy

@monaeltahawy

1 Dec

WE ARE NOT WALKING INCUBATORS FOR FUCK SAKE

I have had two abortions. I was not raped. I was not sick. The pregnancies did not threaten my life. I did not already have children. I just did not want to be pregnant. I did not want to have a child. And so I had two abortions. feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-…

And for those who were willing to give Amy Coney Barrett any benefit of any doubt: she is a Five-Star General of White Supremacist Patriarchy and we've know she'll bring disaster. She is the fruition of decades of work by that patriarchy feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…

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Mona Eltahawy

@monaeltahawy

1 Dec

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1466057035141812232

With every attempt to ban, now in Mississippi, remember: It's what white supremacist Christian conservatives have been working for, while telling US women "be grateful you don't live over there (Muslim country)." I explain 👇🏽#DobbsvJackson #SCOTUS

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Liberal, affluent, white cisgender women thought as long as Roe v. Wade survived, they could ignore whatever the Christians were saying all along - since the 1970s. In the U.S., white and Chrisitian is considered the default, a norm, not scary, not brown or Muslim or pathologized

They remained willfully ignorant to the fact that Roe v. Wade died for many Black and women of colour and poor women in the South, where one after another clinics that provide abortions were being shuttered.

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Mona Eltahawy

@monaeltahawy

1 Dec

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1464984540213088260

What is revolution without risk? And what is risk without consequence? I examine the connection between the two in my new essay.

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1464984540213088260

One of my favourite poems is Vera Pavlova’s If there is something to desire, which is about romantic desire but which beautifully adapts to the desire for freedom. I desire both!

I desire freedom and I know it will not come without risk, and with risk there will be consequence. feministgiant.com/p/write-danger…

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Mona Eltahawy

@monaeltahawy

1 Dec

@IlhanMN

"It is time for the Republican Party to actually do something—to confront anti-Muslim hatred in its ranks and hold those who perpetuate it accountable," Rep. @IlhanMN says says at news conference of the three Muslim members of Congress

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"When I first ran for public office, I was told to take off my hijab if I wanted to have the chance of winning my election," Rep. @IlhanMN says. "Islamophobia pervades our culture, our politics and even policy decisions."

@IlhanMN

Asked whether Rep. Boebert should face censure or lose committee seats, Rep. @IlhanMN says, “This kind of hateful rhetoric and actions cannot go without punishment. There has to be accountability.”