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Jan 16,, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I have become obsessed with legacy and death.

Maybe because I am childfree by choice, so I am the full stop at the end of me.
Maybe because 5 members of my extended family have died in the past 8 months.

Every time a member of my extended family dies, I feel a connection to Egypt sever. Each loss takes me to my childhood and their youth. Each death takes me closer to mine. feministgiant.com/p/essay-avenge…
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Jan 17,
My new essay is about legacy and death. Between the perimenopause and the pandemic and the death of 5 members of my extended family in 8 months, I've been thinking a lot about why I write and what I want to be remembered for. Read, share, subscribe and thank you ❤️✊🏽💜
Its title--Avenge Your Silence--comes from Cherrie Moraga about why she writes: Text: “Fundamentally, I sta...
It pairs well with an earlier essay I wrote about the power--and necessity--of writing dangerously feministgiant.com/p/write-danger…
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Jan 13,
Disgraceful: #Egyptian court has upheld prison sentence against Amal Fathy, a woman human rights defender convicted over a video she posted online criticizing the Egyptian authorities for failing to tackle sexual harassment. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
Misogyny is the beating heart of authoritarianism. That is why Amal Fathy is being punished for exposing sexual violence.

When you punish women who expose sexual violence, what other message are you sending out other than patriarchy enables and protects misogyny? #Egypt
My latest essay about #Egypt is available in English and Arabic

A decade after people across the region took to the streets to remove authoritarian leaders, a zealous determination to control female sexuality continues to hurt women and girls in Egypt: feministgiant.com/p/egypts-sexua…
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Jan 11,
My aunt Nagwa died in Cairo today. She is survived by my uncle Osama, their daughter Yousra & 2 grandchildren. Tante Nagwa is the 5th member of my extended family to die in the past 8 months. This time of counting our dead is crushingly hard. So much loss, trauma and grief.
Uncle Osama has lost his wife, a brother and a sister since August.

When I was a child in Cairo, Tante Nagwa and Uncle Osama used to babysit me often because they lived nearby. They never hid their affection for each other from me, cuddling, holding hands, kissing. I loved that.
We have not reckoned with the magnitude of our pain and grief.

I wrote this in May 2021 and reread it oten.

If you are grieving, I hope it helps.

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Jan 10,
Jan 8, 1896, the world’s first explicitly anarchist-feminist group published La Voz de la Mujer (Woman’s Voice) Women were doubly oppressed - by bourgeois society and by men - it said. libcom.org/history/no-god…’s-first-anarcha-feminist-group A sepia Gomes photo of a gr...
Who deserves freedom? And from whom is our liberation?

“No God, No Boss, No Husband,” answered an Argentinian anarchist feminist in a letter to La Voz de la Mujer feministgiant.com/p/essay-inciti…
In 1st issue, it warned misogynist anarchist comrades “You had better understand once and for all that our mission is not reducible to raising your children and washing your clothes and that we also have a right to emancipate ourselves…”
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Jan 9,
I am seeing #MosqueMeToo making the rounds. I send love and solidarity to all sharing their stories of sexual assault. I know it’s not easy. 💜✊🏽❤️
Here’s more about #MosqueMeToo and #IBeatMyAssaulter
In this interview, I tell @laignee that I started #MosqueMeToo to talk about being sexually assaulted at Hajj when I was 15, and why I started #IBeatMyAssaulter after I beat up a man who sexually assaulted me at a club when I was 50

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Jan 9,
When you are shameless, you cannot be shamed. And so I write this feministgiant.com/p/moisturize-y… #MenopauseMona #FEMINISTGIANT
And this is a roundup of lubricants of various kinds and which uses inclusive language “A person may experience vaginal dryness due to hormonal changes during menopause.” medicalnewstoday.com/articles/best-…
It is with this inclusivity in mind that I teamed up with @unbounders to edit #BloodyHell, a menopause anthology that is global and gender diverse. Find out more here and pledge to help us complete our crowdfund unbound.com/books/bloody-h…
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