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14 Dec, 4 tweets, 3 min read
I found out almost by chance that perimenopause–the time leading up to menopause–could last up to 14yrs. At first, I thought “Are you fucking kidding me?” That quickly turned to“How the hell did I not know that?” How was a feminist like me so ignorant about menopause? #BloodyHell
It is exactly when the once-whispered moves into the mainstream that it most matters who is speaking the once unsaid & who continues to be sidelined & silenced. Which is why I'm so excited to be editing #BloodyHell with @unbounders!
feministgiant.com/p/essay-bloody…
Too often when feminism takes that brave dive into the deep end of a taboo, it takes along just a select few: white, wealthy, cisgender, heterosexual, able-bodied women.

#BloodyHell is the antidote to that. Pledge and help us to publish it soon! unbound.com/books/bloody-h… On a black background is written in different colours: Blood
As a feminist of colour who often must write what she she has long wanted to read, I know what it’s like to rarely see yourself during those “moments,” “waves,” and “movements.”

#BloodyHell aims to expand the Menopause Moment/ Wave/"Movement".

unbound.com/books/bloody-h…

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15 Dec
If you have a uterus and have ever had a uterine biopsy, you know that it is the MOST FUCKING PAINFUL THING EVER! feministgiant.com/p/essay-bloody…
I had my SECOND uterine biopsy on Monday and I screamed from the pain. Screamed.

It was WORSE than when Egyptian police broke both my arms 10 years ago.

How the actual fuck have they not found a way to test for uterine cancer that isn’t worthy of a torture indictment?!
First uterine biopsy: doctor recommended I take two ibuprofen before procedure. FUCK!

Second uterine biopsy: I asked and got painkiller—one opioid thing. I took that and 4 ibuprofen and I still screamed.

It is pure fucking torture.
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14 Dec
I have exciting news! I have joined forces with the wonderful, award-winning publisher @unbounders to edit Bloody Hell! And Other Stories: Adventures in Menopause from Across the Personal and Political Spectrum. unbound.com/books/bloody-h…
I found out almost by chance that perimenopause–the time leading up to menopause–could last up to 14 years. At first, I thought “Are you fucking kidding me?” And that quickly turned to “How the hell did I not know that?” feministgiant.com/p/essay-bloody…
How was a feminist like me so ignorant about menopause? Was I not paying attention?

When I finally did start to pay attention: lo and behold! It seems that M is also for mainstream.

Some are calling it a revolution. I wish! A moment? A wave? A movement? Maybe!
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12 Dec
Exciting menopause-related news at the start of the week! No—I’m not post-menopausal just yet. Ha!

Until I can tell you, read my essay about how shameless menopause is making me feministgiant.com/p/moisturize-y…
I am learning, much to my thrill and awe, that one of the greatest gifts of the transition known as menopause is shamelessness. And the news is along those lines.

The Arabic translation by @itmeansagift feministgiant.com/p/--c39
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.
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8 Dec
Dec. 8, 2011: I had surgery on my left arm to straighten the fractured bone so that it could fuse properly, after Egyptian riot police broke it during the Mohamed Mahmoud protest on Nov 23/24. Mona lying on a hospital bed under a blanket. She is wearing
The ortho surgeon inserted a titanium plate & 5 screws and I have a beautiful faint white scar that reminds me.

Soon after surgery,I flew from NYC to meet my family at my brother’s home in the Midwest: I asked for a wheelchair because I could not do anything w/both arms in casts Mona with an arm in a sling and another in a cast. She is we
At boarding gate, I started to cry because I felt sorry for myself.

Onboard, I asked the woman sitting next to me to open the bottle that contained my pain killers. She asked what happened to me. I told her but knew that what had happened would be impossible for most to absorb.
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7 Dec
The focus of #16DaysofActivism2021 to End Gender-Based Violence is femicide: the killing of a woman or a girl by a man because of her gender, sometimes also used to refer to the epidemic of women killed by men in intimate settings 16dayscampaign.org/wp-content/upl… feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-te…
If terrorism means politically-motivated violence intended to scare us into changing the way we behave, then surely femicide is terrorism. Patriarchy is the ideology; cis men are the terrorists.

#16Days
Unless we impose on societal consciousness just how quotidian violence against women is and how it is ordinary men who commit it, it will continue to benefit ordinary men. It does.

Say it. Violence against women is everyday; ordinary men commit it.
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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 Cover of the book You're the Only One I've Told (letters in
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.

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