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Aug 12 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
This is one of my most popular essays: Why I Say Fuck feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-… A picture of Mona raising her middle finger under the headli
Mona Eltahawy Would Like You to Fuck Right Off With Your Civility Politics - VICE vice.com/en/article/xgq…
I launched my newsletter so that I could write as I speak and forgo this “civility” fuckery.

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Profanity for me is political, not just personal. Profanity is politically important.

Profanity is one of The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls. I explain #WhyISayFuck 👇🏽 lithub.com/mona-eltahawy-…
Fuck civility.

Whether we are urged to be civil to racists or polite to patriarchy, the goal is the same: to maintain the power of the racist, to maintain the power of patriarchy. #WhyISayFuck

Profanity is an essential tool in disrupting patriarchy and its rules. It is the verbal equivalent of civil disobedience.

There is nothing polite about patriarchy. There is nothing civil about racism or misogyny.

#WhyISayFuck

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Aug 12
Since the pandemic began, 5 members of my extended family and my Beloved's father have died.

I wrote this in May 2021 about how June Jordan, Vivaldi & concept of grief literacy helped me. It's one of my most read essays.

I hope it helps those grieving.
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An international group of death studies practitioners and scholars from several countries and disciplines--has coined the concept #GriefLiteracy, which means “the capacity to access, process, and use knowledge regarding the experience of loss.”
Loss, as they explain, does not only occur in response to death; any loss can cause us to grieve.

“So much is being lost in the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic," @SusanCadell #GriefLiteracy Text: “So much is being los...
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Aug 10
Against all my instincts to rage at the fascist fuckery of these days, I have been taking a break. This August, I am resting.

Until my next essay, here are some of my FEMINIST GIANT essays that have had a lot of views:

Abortion is Normal feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-…
The Fuck-It List

feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-…
The Menopause Multiverse

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Aug 1
I’ve been celebrating #ThisIs55 for 5 days because I fucking earned it!

Happy Birthday to me!

Thank you @rerutled for pictures!
#5DaysofMona Mona wearing a spaghetti strap black dress, red necklace, baMona wearing a red tank top dress, turquoise and silver neckMona wearing a spaghetti strap black dress, red necklace, baMona wearing a wide strap red tank top dress, turquoise and
I’m so happy I dressed up twice. #ThisIs55
@rerutled Mona wearing a spaghetti strap black dress, red necklace, baMona wearing a red tank top dress, turquoise and silver neckMona wearing a spaghetti strap black dress, red necklace, baMona wearing a red tank top dress, turquoise and silver neck
And my dad’s birthday greetings are the best! #ThisIs55 #FiveDaysOfMona
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Jul 29
Day Two of #ThisIs55: I don’t remember who I used to be and I don’t know what I am becoming.

But I welcome her!

📷 @rerutled Mona from the chest up in a black tank top, looking at the cMona from the chest up in a black tank top, leaning her headMona from the chest up in a black tank top, looking at the cMona from the chest up in a black tank top, looking at the c
#ThisIs55 #5DaysOfMona the background
I write about who I am becoming here

feministgiant.com #ThisIs55 #5DaysOfMona
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Jul 28
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
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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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