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Jul 11 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Watching #ENGLAND vs #NORWAY in the women's Euros. Sadly missed that first half of 6 goals!

#Lionesses #WEURO2022
I'll be writing about the #WEURO2022 tournament for FEMINIST GIANT soon.

I have a feeling it will be quite a different essay to the one I wrote about the men's Euro tournament last year.

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As for England vs Norway right now: I remember when these two countries played in the women's 2019 World Cup, which ended 3-0 England.

What has happened to Norway?!

#Lionessess #WEURO2022
And up to 7!

#Lionessess #WEURO2022

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Jul 12
Steve Bannon will testify before the #Jan6 Committee. I wrote this about him on January 20, 2021, the day after Trump pardoned him

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Trump was not an aberration. He was the fruition of white supremacy, misogyny, Christian fundamentalism, militarism and authoritarianism.

And Steve Bannon is the gardener tasked with pruning and cross-pollinating the poisonous blossoms.
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Jul 11
Gratitude, love and solidarity to all sharing on this thread. I took my 2.5mg of THC which is wonderful for softening the sharpness of my anxiety and will turn this into an essay soon. Cannabis is a great friend on this menopause transition 💜✊🏽❤️
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Jul 11
I am 4 months away from 12 months without a period and becoming post-menopausal.

I swear, if it comes back and I have to start this fucking clock again, I WILL DESTROY MANY THINGS.

One of the hardest things about this menopausal transition is anxiety. What the actual fuck?
Menopause is a transition, so I know things won't suddenly change as I emerge through peri and into postmenopause .

I was never an anxious person & I had no idea that anxiety would hit me so hard.

Now, it's a good day if I don't wake up with a crushing sense of impending doom
I realise now that when I wrote this in Nov 2020, I was referring to my anxiety:

"my mind felt like a car that was trying to drive with the hand brake on. And there was nothing to do but sit with it, screeching and all."

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Jul 11
It's my birthday at the end of this month. My gift to myself will be more tattoos.

I got my first tattoos at a traumatic time. They were a gift to me for surviving. A form of deliberate beauty that could not be stolen from me.

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In this TedXAmsterdam talk in 2014, I explain how tattoos helped me to heal.

#DeliberateBeauty
These were my first two tattoos--right arm in 2012 and left in 2013 #DeliberateBeauty Mona's forearms showing her tattoos
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Jul 10
In 1996 I had an “illegal” abortion in Egypt and in 2000 I had a “legal” abortion in the U.S. I use inverted commas because I reject the State’s attempt to control my uterus. feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-… #AbortionIsNormal #AbortionRightsAreHumanRights
I reject its power to declare what is “legal” or “illegal” when it comes to my abortions.

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.

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I'd told a few friends privately about my abortions but it took me 25yrs to write/speak about them publicly.

Why? Was I not brave, I ask in Abortion is Normal, the 1st essay I wrote about them for Safe Abortion Day in September 2021

Why is there so much silence around abortion?
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Jul 10
We are more than walking wombs for capitalist patriarchy.

We are more than walking incubators for ethno-supremacist patriarchy.

On being childfree by choice.

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We are not walking incubators for fascists and theocrats.

On the theocracy in the United States.

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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.

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