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Jul 28 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Day One of #ThisIs55: I was born July 28, a Friday=the weekend in Egypt. When registry office opened, my parents decided to register me as Aug 1 birth—start of the month, people would’ve just got paid=good gifts for Mona! So I celebrate all 5 days! 📷 my niece Mona from the hips up, wearing a black shirt dress and black
55 years later and I still have the cheeks. And guess what Baby Mona was saying with her little fist raised?*
*Hint: what she says at the start and end of her events with her bigger fist raised! Baby Mona sitting up with her right hand raisedMona standing on grass smiling
The best gifts are free! Best way to wish me a Happy Birthday: subscribe for free to FEMINIST GIANT feministgiant.com
On the Eve of Day One of #ThisIs55, my brother and his family got me cake!

I’ve been visiting them and now I’m on my way to California for a wedding: NOT MINE!

But KNOW that there will be 5 Days of Cake!
#5DaysOfMona Mona in jeans and red blouse holding a chocolate cake and a Mona digging into a snide of cake
Of course when I come to the airport 2 1/2 hours early, I am done with check in and security in 10 minutes and have 2 and 20 minutes before my flight! So here are some pictures to show you that I now batch my mask and outfits 😉 Mona wearing a black dress and yellow mask abd yellow sandalMona wearing a black dress and yellow mask and yellow Sandel
*batch match etc etc

I wrote a post for patrons on Patreon where the opening line was “I was torn 55 years ago.”

TORN!

Hahaha! When I say perimenopause has discombobulated all of me, I MEAN IT! #ThisIs55 #5DaysOfMona
THANK YOU THANK YOU all for love and wishes.

Love and solidarity 💜✊🏽❤️

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Jul 27
I don't remember who I used to be and I don't know what I am becoming.

I've been thinking this more and more as I approach my birthday (v soon and I'll post pictures for all five days as I usually do!) and also in the way I think about my menopause transition and pandemic life.
As I move through both pandemic and perimenopause: how do I want to emerge? Transformation is hard.

How do I want to stand in this in-between, this forever now, in such a way that honours how scared I am but also how alive I am to the potential that is born from emerging?
I refuse to emerge as if unscathed.

I insist that we all be scathed, that we refuse to be the people we were at the start of the pandemic. I know I am not. But what am I becoming?

I wrote this by way of beginning an answer feministgiant.com/p/essay-fallin…
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Jul 27
Did incidents of domestic violence go up after the #Eng women's team won their #WEURO2022 semi final against #Swe yesterday? i doubt it. So why do incidents of domestic violence go up when the #Eng men's team merely play--win, draw or lose, just play? #Lionesses
Researchers who analysed domestic violence figures from #Eng men's games in 3 World Cups found that when the men's team played, incidents of domestic abuse rose by:
- 38% when they lost
- 26% when they won or drew
feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f…
Findings were used in campaign by UK’s National Centre for Domestic Violence in 2018 World Cup, w/ tagline, “If England gets beaten, so will she,” & extended to other nations, showing images of national flags imprinted onto women’s faces in blood Four pictures, each showing blood and bruising in the shape
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Jul 27
Who has the guts to make an ad “I want an abortion because I don’t want to be pregnant.” This 👇🏽is awful. Reject these worst case scenarios, full of pain & trauma, for abortions. Stop appealing to zealots that your abortion is “good.” h/t @rerutled
I had an abortion because I did not want to be pregnant. That’s it. 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. feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-…
In so many of abortion narratives, it is as if women were pleading for a mercy & forgiveness that belonged to no one to give; it was as if they had to prove they were “worthy” of the abortion feministgiant.com/p/essay-lies-s…
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Jul 26
Will it be #Eng women who bring football home at the #WEURO2022 finals this weekend? I don’t know. But I can guess that when they play, incidents of domestic abuse will not increase as they do when England’s men team play. feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f… #Lionessess
“If England gets beaten, so will she.”

Researchers from UK’s Lancaster University who analysed domestic violence figures from England’s men’s games in 2002, 2006 & 2010 World Cup found that incidents of domestic abuse were 11 percent higher the day after an England men’s match.
More alarmingly: incidents of domestic abuse rose by 38 percent when the England men’s team lost and increased by 26 percent where England men won or drew, compared with days when there was no England match. feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f…
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Jul 26
And the person who is carrying that unintended pregnancy is just a walking incubator?! Fuck this shit. Abortion is a human right that must be available to any pregnant person who wants it. Not only if there aren’t coaches willing to “raise that baby.”
People have abortions for various reasons, not just because there aren’t people willing to “raise that baby.”

Among those reasons: because they don’t want to be pregnant.

That’s why I had my two abortions. I did not want to be pregnant.

#AbortionRightsAreHumanRights
I had two abortions because I did not want to be pregnant.

We are not walking incubators as the “put the baby up for adoption” crowd seem to think.

feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-…
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Jul 26
I wonder sometimes how much of a role The Handmaid's Tale played in making (white) Americans think that abortion would only ever be illegal (again) in a dystopian future, a world that looked nothing like their own, and so
easy to keep at arm’s distance. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
It has less to do with the book’s author, Margaret Atwood, and more to do with the inability of (white) Americans to imagine losing a right they’ve had recognized, albeit for less than 50 years.

The idea that a right could be revoked is so alien to so many white Americans.
The privilege of whiteness meant that for many in the U.S., there was something wrong with you if you were losing rights. And so banning abortion was the stuff of a dystopia they could keep at a distance, that they refused to recognize.
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