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Apr 23 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
April 23 is World Vagina Appreciation Day. I hope you will celebrate and appreciate by reading and sharing my new essay!

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And remember this #WorldVaginaAppreciationDay to moisturize your vagina

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Checkout #BloodyHell, the menopause anthology I am editing for @unbounders. Contributors are from around the world and gender expansive.

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My essays on all things feminist, including several on menopause, all here.

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Apr 22
I saw #Happening last night. Set in 1960s France and based on the Annie Ernaux memoir, it is the most vivid portrayal of (illegal) abortion I have ever seen and will stay with me. It is on general release via @IFCFilms in the U.S. May 6.
I know what it is like to have an "illegal" abortion. I wrote about it here and will be writing more about #Happening soon and The Janes, an upcoming @HBO documentary soon.

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My essay is also available as an audio essay (click on the link above) and in Arabic.

I had my 1st abortion in Egypt, where abortion remains illegal in almost all cases. And my 2nd abortion in the U.S. where abortion rights are being gutted feministgiant.com/p/-?s=w
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Apr 21
Looking forward to seeing #Happening via @IFCFilms tonight. I’ll be writing about this and forthcoming documentary about abortion via @HBO called The Janes soon Poster for a full called Happening: profile of a white WomenPoster for a film called Happening; a woman dressed in muggy
In 1996 I had an “illegal” abortion in Egypt and in 2000 I had a “legal” abortion in the United States.

These films about abortion are not abstract for me. They are real and harrowing and triggering. feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-… #RoeVWade
And watching white, Christian women destroy Roe v Wade in the U.S. and help build a theocracy is enraging feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-te… #RoeVWade
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Apr 20
Wonderful to see @Osunsweetnsour, creator/host of The Black Girls Guide to Surviving Menopause podcast and author of the Zine “Messages from the Menopausal Multiverse" in this article on Black and women of colour's experience of menopause.
oprahdaily.com/life/health/a3…
I am thrilled that @Osunsweetnsour agreed to contribute to the menopause anthology #BloodyHell that I am editing for @unbounders. Menopause is about more than just white, cis women. Our anthology is global and gender expansive unbound.com/books/bloody-h…
"The average age of menopause in the U.S. is 51...Black women tend to begin menopause about nine months earlier than white women." oprahdaily.com/life/health/a3…
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Apr 19
Trigger warning: rape, sexual violence, suicide, genocide

For too long, rape has been considered an almost natural result of war, as if soldiers and rebels and fighters just stumbled upon it, as if it were something that was inevitable rather than deliberate.
Rape and sexual violence have always been used—deliberately, systematically, intentionally—in conflict and war to terrorize women (and sometimes to emasculate men). Women’s bodies are considered proxy battlegrounds; an extension of those battlefields.
The latest reminder: Ukrainian human rights group have accused Russian troops of using rape as a weapon of war. The official ombudswoman for human rights said she had recorded “horrific cases of sexual violence by Russian troops in Bucha and other places. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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Apr 18
#ThisIs54 #NewProfilePic

I slept 7 hours straight last night and it’s a fucking miracle. #Perimenopause

📷 @rerutled Mona from the shoulders up,...
Talking of which: it’s a kick to see The Daniels, who wrote and directed #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce reference my essay on @A24’s @allatoncemovie  filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2022/04/da… h/t @voixdemichele

https://t.co/DPTqNV79zN Text: DS: Yes. I read this ...
Now, whenever I want anyone to know how utterly wrenching–and also liberating– it is to go through perimenopause, I will say, nay YELL: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce
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Apr 17
Such a kick to see The Daniels reference my essay on @A24’s @allatoncemovie filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2022/04/da… #EverythingEverywhere h/t @voixdemichele Text: DS: Yes. I read this incredible review from a middle-a
Everything Everywhere All at Once is the perfect menopause allegory film. I don’t care if that’s not what The Daniels had in mind when they wrote and directed it. It’s art. It’s out there. And my menopause claims it! feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce
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