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Jul 21 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
At the inaugural Feminist Book Club event at @strandbookstore last night, Dr. Meera Shah was asked how we can fight back against abortion bans. She gave many great ideas including "Say the word 'abortion' more. Talk about it more." #AbortionIsNormal #AbortionIsHealthcare Two women sitting on either side of a big banner that reads
The book club, co-presented by FEMINIST GIANT & @strandbookstore, launched w/ Dr. Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion which inspired me to break the silence--refuse shame--around my abortions. TALK ABOUT ABORTION 📷 @rerutled
feministgiant.com/p/essay-on-abo… Mona holding a sign saying "I have had two abortions.&q
Read about Dr. Shah's book. Read Dr. Shah's book.

Talk about abortion.

Refuse shame.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-on-abo… #AbortionRightsAreHumanRights #AbortionisNormal #AbortionIsHealthcare
After the event, a woman told me it was the 30th anniversary of her abortion. I congratulated her because I remember how relieved I was after my abortions.

She told me she wished that she had a book like Dr. Shah's 30yrs ago so that she could read about other abortion stories. The cover of the book You're the Only One I've Told: The Sto
Another woman pressed several sheets of text into my hands.

"I had an abortion 50yrs ago. Weaponize this any way you need to," she told me about her story.

She knows right wing zealots weaponize shame to fuel abortion bans #AbortionRightsAreHumanRights
Read more about Dr. Shah and her book, including a link to buy it here.

feministgiant.com/p/event-femini…
And subscribe for my essays and future Feminist Book Club events, in person and online!

Yesterday's event was SOLD OUT!

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I gladly blurbed Dr. Meera Shah's book.

Signed copies available at @strandbookstore
#AbortionIsHealthcare #AbortionRightsAreHumanRights A screenshot of a page in a book with endorsements, includinCover of the book You're the Only One I've Told (in orange)

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Jul 22
I understand why some want to use “pro forced birth” instead of “anti abortion,” to describe zealots behind abortion bans, but we must not shy away from the word “abortion.” I am pro abortion.
Say “abortion.” Use that word often. Shatter the silence and shame that the zealots insist on. #AbortionRightsAreHumanRights #AbortionIsHealthcare
For as long as patriarchy can shroud abortion with silence it will continue to stamp it in shame. Knowing that, I broke my silence so that I could break free of shame. I am pro abortion. 📷 @rerutled feministgiant.com/p/essay-on-abo… Mona holding a sign saying ...
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Jul 21
“Pro-life” was never accurate description of abortion opponents.

They assassinated abortion providers, set fire to clinics, stalked providers in their neighbourhoods, and terrorized people seeking abortions.

Anti-abortion terrorists is more accurate.
feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-wh…
I’m fed up of hearing “Vote! Vote! Vote!” as the antidote to the victory of the white supremacist Christian zealots who destroyed #RoeVWade.

We need a radicalism that for too long those zealots held a copyright to.

We are on the brink of a theocracy!

Where is our radicalism?
How, when you know about voter suppression and gerrymandering, do you suggest "Vote! Vote! Vote!" as a solution? It's delusional.

And how about the fucking U.S. media develop a fucking spine. The same media that wouldn't call Trump a racist now can't call these zealots zealots.
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Jul 21
Right wing zealots want to shame us for our right to bodily autonomy. REFUSE shame! A tweet that reads " t...
For as long as patriarchy can shroud abortion with silence it will continue to stamp it in shame. Knowing that, I broke my silence so that I could break free of shame. 📷 @rerutled feministgiant.com/p/essay-on-abo… Mona holding a sign saying ...
Shatter that silence, vanquish secrecy, drag abortion out of the shadows and into the public discourse as the human right that it is. Don't let abortion opponents constrain it with the straitjacket of shame and stigma. feministgiant.com/p/essay-on-abo… #AbortionRightsAreHumanRights
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Jul 21
"Shame is...a societal and patriarchal construct...built around boxing us in...That’s why I feel so strongly about giving space to those ready to talk about issues deemed ‘shameful’ – like abortion," Dua Lipa on my essay for her newsletter Service95
"Please read every word of Mona’s story. It has struck a chord in me, and I hope it does the same for you," Dua Lipa.

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Subscribe for free to @DuaLipa's newsletter at service95.com. It's published in nine languages.

And subscribe for free to my newsletter FEMINIST GIANT.

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Jul 20
Today, I get to talk about two books that mean a lot to me.

First, I'll be on a virtual event by @Lighthousebks to talk about @Elias_Jahshan anthology #ThisArabIsQueer, to which I contributed an essay, excerpted here feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-de…
And then later today, for inaugural Feminist Book Club event, co-presented by FEMINIST GIANT & @strandbookstore, I'll be in conversation with Dr. Meera Shah about her book You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion.

I wrote about it here feministgiant.com/p/essay-on-abo…
Join the @Lighthousebks virtual event here
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Jul 20
The very first time I saw the trailer for @allatoncemovie, I said "This is a film about menopause!"

The very first time I saw the film, I was convinced "This is a film about menopause!" I saw it three times and wrote this feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce
And I have now become known to the The Daniels--who wrote and directed @allatoncemovie--as the "middle aged woman who wrote an essay that said #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce is about menopause."

Here The Daniels tell Daniel Radcliffe that on @A24 podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…
And here too: "I read this incredible review from a middle-aged woman who basically saw this film as a menopause movie. She said, "Oh, this film is the perfect metaphor for what I'm going through right now, as I'm going through menopause." filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2022/04/da…
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