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May 4 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Drawing power from #NiUnaMenos  feminist collective after #Argentina failed 2018 bid to decriminalize abortion: “For us,women,men & trans people,there has already been a collective triumph:we have brought our bodies,our abortions & our desires out of hiding & we will not go back”
"If the law is not passed,we will not leave the streets, and they will not be able to leave the Congress building, because in the street Legal Abortion is already the law. We will not let ourselves be burned because this time the fire is ours" #NiUnaMenos 
In December 2020, #Argentina became the first major country in Latin America to legalize abortion when the Senate approval a bill to legalize the procedure through the 14th week of pregnancy. #AbortoLegalYa

“We will not let ourselves be burned because this time the fire is ours.”

That line has been seared into my heart and mind ever since I read it.

Claim the fire. Own the fire. Burn down the patriarchy.

The Fire is Ours: A Statement from Ni Una Menos versobooks.com/blogs/3966-the…
#NiUnaMenos  collective began amid protests vs gender violence & became a major force behind the bill to decriminalize abortion in #Argentina and other countiries in South and Central America, as part of the “Green Wave.”

Note their trans inclusivity. That is important.
Abortion on demand. Safe and free.

Demand nothing less than that. We own our bodies. Not the patriarchy.

Reject silence, stigma and shame.

Do not let yourselves be burned. Make the fire yours.

#RoeVWade feministgiant.com

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May 4
I was not raped. I was not sick. The pregnancies did not threaten my life. I did not already have children. I just did not want to be pregnant. I did not want to have a child. And so I had two abortions.
#RoeVsWade
And it is incumbent on those of us who can, to talk. Not everyone can talk and survive.

It took me 25yrs to write about my abortions. I wrote for my younger self who had no one to talk to about her abortions. feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-…
I wrote for anyone who recognizes that their abortion is considered especially shameful or outrageous because it does not follow the few acceptable abortion narratives. #RoeVWade
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May 3
In 2015, at an event in Dallas, Texas, during the tour for my book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution, a white woman who said she'd spent some time in Egypt, asked me what she could do to help Egyptian women fight female genital mutilation (FGM)
“Nothing,” I replied.“Egyptian women are fighting already, Why do you want to help women thousands of miles away instead of right here in your own state? Do you know how many abortion clinics have been shut down in Texas?” feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney… #RoeVWade
A woman sitting next to her reminded my interlocutor that high rates of militarism & Christian fundamentalism made Texas one of the worst states for women in the U.S.

And yet, here was a woman in the state of God, Guns, and the GOP who was more invested in saving Egyptian women
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May 3
I have had 2 abortions; an "illegal" & a "legal" one. 1 in 4 pregnancies end in abortion. You know someone who has had an abortion. People who can get pregnant will always find a way to have an abortion. It must always be safe & affordable. Fuck the Supreme Court 📷 @rerutled Mona from the shoulders up....
I wrote this essay for people who look like me and who rarely see themselves in abortion narratives.

It is available in audio version and Arabic so that it's accessible to as many people as possible.

Abortion must always be safe and affordable

feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-… #RoeVWade
I blurbed Dr. Meera 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. Read it chicagoreviewpress.com/you-re-the-onl… #RoeVWade Cover of the book You're th...
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May 3
New pinned tweet. I wrote this in January 2022
And I wrote this in September 2020

If Amy Coney Barrett Was a Muslim

feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney… #RoeVWade #SCOTUS
I want white women in the U.S. to take all their earnest “How can I help Muslim women” & “Why do Muslim women submit to misogyny?”questions & obsess over their white sisters who benefit from white supremacist patriarchy & who don’t give a flying fuck how it hurts the entire world
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May 3
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
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
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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