In many non-Western countries, speaking about such things as desire is scorned as “white” or “Western” behavior. I’ve been accused of being “obsessed” with sex because I insist on talking openly about desire. feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-des…
Being able to speak of our desire - without fear, without penalty, and on the way of being ourselves - is at the heart of being free. So I’m thrilled that wonderful book exists 👇🏽
https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1537778740100489218
To desire and to be desired is political. How we fuck and who we fuck is political. Always the goal: to be free. And so I’m thrilled that this book exists and honoured I’m among its contributors #ThisArabIsQueer
https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1537779847056982018
Among the poet Muriel Rukeyser’s assignments for her writing students was to begin a poem with the words “I could not say.” Acknowledging the taboo at the heart of a silence, can nudge expression free. Shaking desire free of taboos is revolutionary. feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-des…
Who among us is raised to desire freely? I could not say, for the longest time, that I desired men and women. I could not say, for the longest time, that being monogamous was suffocating me. But now I do. #ThisArabIsQueer feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-de…
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