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Mona Eltahawy

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May 3

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This is a message to white people in the US: Conservatives have worked since the early 1970s for this moment of overturning #RoeVsWade. Because they're white and Christian, their danger was not taken seriously. And here we are. #SCOTUS

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1521313235072438272

Liberal, affluent, white cis women thought as long as #RoeVWade survived, they could ignore whatever the Christians were saying all along. In the U.S., white and Christian is considered the default, a norm, not scary, not brown or Muslim or pathologized. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…

They remained wilfully 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. #RoeVWade #SCOTUS

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May 3

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Now that we know that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v Wade...1/2

politico.com/news/2022/05/0… h/t @rerutled #RoeVWade #SCOTUS

Remember the terrorist, the attorney general, and the Supreme Court justice--and the battalion of white, Christian women--who helped destroy abortion rights and build a theocracy feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-te… #RoeVWade #SCOTUS

Convicted terrorist Raychelle “Shelly” Shannon can claim that she firebombed a path for Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, the face of te law that ended the federally protected right to an abortion, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who has dealt the deadly blow. #RoeVWade

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@monaeltahawy

May 2

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One of the things I love most about @A24's @allatoncemovie is that it centers an older woman of colour and all the lives she could have had feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce

Michelle Yeoh is Evelyn, a Chinese-American woman, who is called on to jump between universes–”’verse jump” in the film’s vernacular–to accumulate skills from the alternative lives all the other Evelyns are living to save the multiverse from a “great evil”

White women are allowed sliding doors in mainstream films, e.g. Gwyneth Paltrow who was 26 years old when she starred in Sliding Doors in 1998. Michelle Yeoh is 59. To ponder “what if” and take stock of your life at 26 is not the same as when you are 59. #EverythingEverywhere

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Mona Eltahawy

@monaeltahawy

May 1

A self-righteous prick of a man told me yesterday “keep your fornication private.” In the interests of doing the exact opposite, I write increasingly about things I’m supposed to keep secret.

I have had 2 abortions: one “legal” and one “illegal.” feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-…

I’m supposed to keep them secret, because I’m supposed to be “ashamed” of them.

I am learning, much to my thrill and awe, that one of the greatest gifts of the transition known as menopause is shamelessness.

When you are shameless, you cannot be shamed. feministgiant.com/p/moisturize-y…

Shamelessness loosens my tongue and I say the unsayable;

In the past year alone, I have written about my abortions, perimenopause, queerness and polyamory in ways I never imagined. Because who benefits from secrecy? feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-des…

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Mona Eltahawy

@monaeltahawy

May 1

@rerutled

Happy #MayDay!

Recognize the workers who have kept our countries open at great risk to themselves - in grocery stores, hospitals, sanitation, transportation, delivery, many others. What does the economy do for them?

Made this in March 2020

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More women than men were pushed out of workforce during the pandemic. Job losses due to the pandemic hit Black & women of colour esp hard because they’re disproportionately employed by many of the businesses most affected by it.
Wrote this Dec 2020 feministgiant.com/p/essay-a-time… #MayDay

Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.

--Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays #MayDay

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Mona Eltahawy

@monaeltahawy

Apr 30

@rerutled

#ThisIs54: It's not my birthday. It's my latest addition to Woman in Her 50s album. For too long, I'd been told I “didn’t look” whatever age that I was. It was said to me as if it were a compliment. It was not. It was the loathing of aging that we are socialized into. 📷@rerutled

#ThisIs54: Not for all the money in the world would I go back to being younger. My 20s and at least half of my 30s were miserable because I felt I had no power. And now here I am, with more power,being told I“didn’t look”this age I feel I’ve finally earned feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-des…

I post #ThisIs54 to say “Here is a middle aged woman. Look,” at a time when it seems that every time I look away, my body has changed.

I write about and celebrate that change. feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…

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