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Sep 10 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
From the chapter on Profanity. Who determines what is “civil” and what is “rude?” Who benefits from upholding those social codes? Under the British and other empires, white, Christian values
So fuck the royal family, fuck the monarchy, and abolish the monarchy everywhere #AbolishTheMonarchy #WhyISayFuck feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
It is imperative to understand how civility, decorum, manners, and the like are used to uphold authority—patriarchy, whiteness, other forms of privilege—and that we are urged to acquiesce as a form of maintaining that authority
We are no obliged to show respect to those in power.

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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.

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Read more of my work on profanity and why I consider it a form of civil disobedience.

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And this is academic Carol Summers’ article on “radical rudeness” jstor.org/stable/3790288
The revolution is not polite. Book mark that reads “The revolution is not polite. Mona E

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Sep 11
“Is there an honorable non-violent means towards mourning and remembering who and what we loved?”

For 9/11 anniversary, I always share this from poet June Jordan’s keynote at Barnard in November 2001 about the attacks. #GriefLiteracy Image
“What shall we do now? How shall we grieve, and cry out loud, and face down despair?”

And I quote June Jordan in this essay about #GriefLiteracy that has helped me articulate some of my grief since the pandemic began.

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“I realized that regardless of the tragedy, regardless of the grief, regardless of the monstrous challenge, Some of Us Have Not Died. Some of us did NOT die…And what shall we do, we who did not die?” June Jordan #GriefLiteracy
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Sep 8
Until my essay Menopause is Shit, Menopause is amazing, here's something I wrote about Everything Everywhere All At Once, which is exactly what menopause feels like feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…
Whenever I want anyone to know how utterly wrenching–and also liberating– it is to go through perimenopause, I will say, nay YELL: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once is the perfect menopause allegory film. I don’t care if that’s not what The Daniels had in mind when they wrote and directed it. It’s art. It’s out there. And my menopause claims it!
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Sep 8
I am writing an essay about how menopause has undone me. I worry when I say stuff like that. I come from a generation of cis women who were socialized to leave everything that made us cis women at home, so that we could “make it” in the cis man’s world.
But menopause has kicked my fucking ass.

It has been a great churner, menopause has; discombobulating all of me. It has taken whatever Mona I used to be pre-perimenopause and shaken her free at the seams.

I don’t remember what I used to be and I don’t know who I am becoming.
But I welcome her!

And when I finish the essay, it will be here.

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Sep 7
The United States of America is a white supremacist Christian theocracy. h/t @SChenHayes
Because white and Christian are considered the default in the U.S., it has been too easy for too many white Americans to see theocracy "over there"--in Iran or Afghanistan--and not "over here" where people who looked like them built a theocracy feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
It is easy to see theocracy when the theocrats don’t look like you. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-wh…
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Sep 7
I love the t-shirts that @BeaconPressBks made for The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls! Front👇🏽 Mona wearing a red first th...
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Read about the Sins and how they can be used to defy, disobey, and disrupt patriarchy feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-se…
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Sep 7
My second book The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls was published three years ago. It is my manifesto to destroy patriarchy.

Read an overview, including an excerpt of the Violence chapter, perhaps the most controversial of the "sins."
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My newsletter FEMINIST GIANT is also a manifesto--of feminist resistance to global patriarchal fuckery.

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