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Jan 25 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
“Some others, like the Egyptian writer and feminist Mona Eltahawy, see these changes as a remarkable consequence, even "the greatest success" of the Arab Spring.” #Jan25 en.qantara.de/content/sex-ed…
11 years after #Jan25, women and queer people are rising up against a form of tyranny even more stubborn than dictators in presidential palaces: patriarchy and its stranglehold on their bodies and sexualities. feministgiant.com/p/egypts-sexua…
Barricades of today’s sexual revolution aren't to be found in squares that reverberated w/chants 11yrs ago. They're on social media accounts that can be accessed by millions from privacy of home,that place from which all tyrants spring & that's most in need of a revolution #Jan25
Through Arabic language accounts that are unprecedented in their boldness, sexual radicals are targeting shame,taboo,silence & sexual repression. Orgasms, masturbation, anal sex, abortion, being queer, how to ask for what you want from a sexual partner, consent-nothing off limits
One of the catalysts for the 2011 uprising was the power young people felt from using Facebook to say “I count” as they protested the oppression of the state. #Jan25
Today, it is women and queer people saying “I count” through the deceptively simple declaration “I own my body” as they protest what I call the Trifecta of Patriarchy: the state, the street, and the home. #Jan25 feministgiant.com/p/egypts-sexua…
Fed up w/ hypocrisy & sexual repression, Egypt’s sexual radicals are confronting shame & silence that undergird patriarchy.Still feeling the heady intoxication of #Jan25 in which millions issued a collective “Enough!”, they're throwing Molotov cocktails at dictators of our mind.
My essay is available in audio format and has been translated into Arabic by @itmeansagift #Jan25 feministgiant.com/p/--052?r=50le…
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Jan 26
A 37yo woman has died in #Poland after being denied an abortion after one of her twin fetuses died. Doctors waited until the vital functions of the other twin flatlined on their own a week later, Agnieszka T's family said. h/t @mokomokai #AniJednejWięcej macaubusiness.com/rights-groups-… On a black background in wh...
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Agnieszka T died on Tuesday. Thursday marks a year since #Poland banned access to abortion in almost all circumstances, which @hrw & rights groups say has had a devastating impact on the lives of women and all those in need of abortion care hrw.org/news/2022/01/2… #AniJednaWiecej
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Jan 25
None of the revolutions that began when a man set himself on fire in Tunisia in December 2010 have been about gender equality. But if a man began the revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa, it will be women who will complete them. feministgiant.com/p/jan25-ten-ye… #Jan25 #Egypt
Our autocrat is a coward who has built more prisons than hospitals or schools since the revolution because he is scared of us and of our insistence that we count.
#Jan25 #Egypt
A revolution is not a season or a colour. It is the feet on the ground of astonishingly courageous people who dared to demand the fall of a regime that had robbed them of so much, including the right to imagine. #Jan25 #Egypt
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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 16
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 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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