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Jun 8 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Theocrats are competing in the Zealotry Olympics. On May 26, even as the Supreme Court had yet to issue its decision on #RoeVWade, the governor of Oklahoma signed into law the strictest abortion ban in the US, making the state the 1st to effectively end availability of abortion.
The @HBO documentary #TheJanes about illegal abortion providers pre-Roe v Wade, airs today. Will viewers in the U.S. understand that the past is not a foreign country but instead destination as ambition when theocrats are driving? feministgiant.com/p/essay-disres…
“We were really ordinary women and we were trying to save women’s lives. We wanted every woman who contacted us to be the hero of her own story.”

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“There was a philosophical obligation on our part. on somebody’s part, to disrespect a law that disrespected women,”

The State–and the Supreme Court–can fuck off with its opinions about what I can and can’t do with my uterus. That control belongs to me. feministgiant.com/p/essay-disres…

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Jun 7
On Sunday, @tx4abortion activists disrupted Joel Osteen's Lakewood megachurch service by stripping to their underwear and yelling "It's my body, my fucking choice!" via @riseup4abortion #RoeVWade
Fuck yes @riseup4abortion: "Bring SOCIETY to A HALT! NO RETREAT, NO DEFEAT!"

I ask in my latest essay: When will you start burning things to the ground? Where is your fucking rage?

And it is important to insist: abortion on demand and without apology.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha… #RiseUp3Abortion
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Jun 7
I had an “illegal” abortion in Egypt in 1996 and a “legal” abortion in the U.S. in 2000. I feel like I straddle a surreal "before" and "after” that is about to go into effect but in reverse in the U.S. Watching the film "Happening" was a stark reminder feministgiant.com/p/essay-lies-s…
And watching the new @HBO documentary (airing June 8) The Janes, about an underground collective that provided low-cost and free abortions to an estimated 11,000 women in Illinois pre-Roe v Wade was another. I'm writing about it for my next essay.

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Jun 6
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…
The goal of feminism cannot be simply the elevation of any and all women. What a vacant and meaningless goal that would be, without also destroying patriarchy.

Patriarchal fuckery is no more palatable because it is delivered by women. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ju…
And feminism is not about supporting a woman merely because she is a woman, especially when she is a dangerous extremist like Amy Coney Barrett. I do not support a woman who has benefited from feminism only to now work to cut feminism at its knees. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…
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Jun 6
Next time you are tempted to ask how women in Iran or Afghanistan could have “let it happen,” when they lost rights, ask yourself how you allowed white, Christian zealots to use democracy to cut it at its knees by destroying the right to abortion–a right most Americans support.
#RoeVWade will be overturned because of Christian zealots who voted for fellow white Christian zealots who installed other Christian zealots--like Amy Coney Barrett-- on courts, including the highest court in the land. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
White Americans wondering how this could've happened: while you were looking for Commander Fred of The Handmaid's Tale, ready to rape Offred as his wife Serena held her down, it was your fathers, uncles, brothers & husbands who voted for zealots stripping you of bodily autonomy
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Jun 6
Amy Coney Barrett, who was confirmed to the Supreme Court to be the final nail in the coffin of the federal protection of abortion--a right most Americans support--belongs to what is essentially a cult that is patriarchal and misogynist theguardian.com/world/2022/jun…
Amy Coney Barrett is not just a foot soldier of the white supremacist Christian patriarchy. She is a five-star general for that patriarchy. I've been saying that about her since Trump first nominated her in Sept. 2020 feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…
Amy Coney Barrett belongs to the tag team of white Christian women--terrorists, legislators, judges--who've helped build the Christian theocracy that has used democracy to cut it at its knees by destroying a right most people in the U.S. support
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Jun 4
Last year for #Pride, I wrote about how long it had taken me to wade through the muck of what I had been taught I should want to get to the muscle of what I desired. feministgiant.com/p/dear-graduat…
This year for #Pride, I contributed to the anthology This Arab is Queer edited by @Elias_Jahshan, now available for pre-order until its release on June 16 saqibooks.com/books/saqi/thi…
I am very proud to be representing This Arab is Queer in the launch event @BishopsgateInst on 16 June!

Join me, @Elias_Jahshan, @ZeynJoukhadar, @anbara_salam, @saqibooks and host @PaulBurston
in-person or online.

Get tickets now: bishopsgate.org.uk/whats-on/activ…
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