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May 5 10 tweets 6 min read
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 had two abortions.
#RoeVsWade #AbortionStories @rerutled Mona holding a sign saying ...
One in four pregnancies end in abortion. You know someone who has had an abortion. If you don’t know anyone, that is because the people you know who have had an abortion have not yet told you. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-se… #RoeVWade #AbortionIsHealthcare #abortionstories
I was born in Egypt to a Muslim family and I know how rare it is for someone from my background to see themselves in abortion narratives. And because of that, I know how necessary it is for those of us who can share our stories to do so. It took me 25yrs. feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-…
I was inspired and encouraged by women of colour who had spoken of theirs, and who said they wished they saw more people who look like them in abortion narratives. My essay on my abortions is available in Arabic via @itmeansagift translation
feministgiant.com/p/-?s=w
My most recent essay The Seven Necessary Sins for Fighting Abortion Bans will soon be available in Arabic too feministgiant.com
For more #abortionstories that don't always appear in the narratives we see, read Dr. Meera Shah's book You're the Only One I've Told, which I was glad to blurb
chicagoreviewpress.com/you-re-the-onl… #RoeVWade Cover of the book You're th...
I enthusiastically blurbed Dr. Shah’s book because the narratives are vital and because she is one of the few women of colour doctors I know of who write openly about providing abortion care. #abortionstories
But I felt like a coward because I had yet to share my own stories, especially when the three women of South Asian descent told Dr. Shah that not seeing more women from their ethnic background in abortion narratives made their abortions lonelier and harder feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-se…
I have had an "illegal" abortion and a "legal" abortion. Criminalizing abortion does not eradicate it nor make it rare. It makes it dangerous and often deadly for the poorest and most vulnerable people who can get pregnant. #abortionisahumanright feministgiant.com
Thank you all who’ve shared their #abortionstories ❤️✊🏽💜

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May 7
Amy Coney Barrett is not a Footsoldier of the Patriarchy. She is a Five-Star General of the Footsoldiers of the Patriarchy. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney… #RoeVWade #SCOTUS #AbortionIsHealthcare
Amy Coney Barrett is a mediocre judge who was elevated because she’s a white mother of school-aged children who will do white supremacist patriarchy’s bidding in a country that hates mothers and children who are not white. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ju… #RoeVsWade #MothersDay
The confirmation of Barrett to the Supreme Court was the crowning achievement of concerted and zealous political power play by conservatives since the early 1970s at least.
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May 7
Choosing to be childfree is surrounded with taboo and stigma. So I wanted to make sure my essay was available in both of my languages: English 👇🏽#MothersDay2022
And in Arabic, thanks to the excellent @itmeansagift feministgiant.com/p/--6dd?s=w #MothersDay
And having an abortion is surround by taboo and stigma. So I wanted to make sure my essay was available in both of my languages: English 👇🏽 feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-… #AbortionIsAHumanRight
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May 7
1. Being a lesbian is not an insult.
2. Study some biology, you ignorant fuck.
3. Fuck off.
4. Fuck off some more.
The coward deleted the tweet. Here's the screenshot A tweet that reads "Ho...
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May 7
I am childfree by choice. Happily so.

I published this on last year's #MothersDay. And here it is again for #MothersDay2022

feministgiant.com/p/unmothering?…
I have had two abortions. I did not want to have children. I was not raped. I was not sick. The pregnancies did not threaten my life. I just did not want to be pregnant.

It took me 25 years to write about my abortions.
#RoeVsWade #AbortionStories

feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-…
The few abortion narratives that are considered “acceptable” are often prefaced with trauma and pain—as if they were the price to be exacted for bodily autonomy.

It is important to share abortion stories that say simply: #IDidNotWantToBePregnant
feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-se… #RoeVWade
Read 5 tweets
May 7
Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders have issued an order that all Afghan women should wear the all-covering burqa in public.

The decree also says it is better for women to stay at home if they have no important work outside.

Fuck theocratic zealots everywhere

theguardian.com/world/2022/may…
A government spokesman said that a woman’s father or closest male relative would be visited and eventually imprisoned or fired from government jobs if she did not cover her face outside the home.

Fuck theocratic zealots everywhere.

aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/7/…
Because of course the theocratic fucks in Afghanistan don't want to be outdone by the theocratic fucks in the USA.

U.S. zealots start the week with news that abortion would be banned,

Afghan zealots end the week with news that women must stay at home and cover face in public.
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May 6
It is imperative that we pay attention to what are known as rape exceptions to abortion bans. Reject a hierarchy around abortion. The right wing is unabashed in its insistence on controlling our bodies. We must be even more unabashed in our insistence on bodily autonomy #RoeVWade
We do not owe anyone an explanation or a reason for our abortion. Much like we insist on rejecting the “worthy victim” scenario of sexual assault, so too must we reject the “worthy recipient” of an abortion. #AbortionIsAHumanRight feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-se…
Abortion is a human right, not a bonus or a reward we must earn.

The fascist theocrats will not stop until they force us into carrying all pregnancies to term.

Fuck the patriarchy.

Fuck theocracy.

Fuck white supremacy.

Fuck the Supreme Court.

#AbortionIsAHumanRight
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