Glory and power to the women in Iran for serving us this challenge: If women (and men) in one of the most perfect police states are this unscared, then what are you doing to fight your oppressors? feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-…#MahsaAmini#JinJiyanAzadi
As you watch the glory and power of the feminist revolution in Iran right now, ask yourself (I’m looking at you people in the U.S. cheering on the feminist revolution against theocrats over there) what the fuck you are doing to fight theocrats and fascists over here. #MahsaAminii
Where is your feminist revolution against your theocrats?
Sept. 25 is a day I’m particularly fond of because it’s my neohew’s birthday & because I was arrested that day in NYC in 2012 for spray painting over a racist & bigoted ad in the subway. Kristy Leibowitz was on assignment that day and sent me these pics.
Grateful that @StanleyCohenLaw represented me pro bono for 2yrs after my arrest. I refused a plea deal &.was to stand trial until judge dropped the case in the interest of justice. I spray painted over the ad as an act of civil disobedience. Racism must be socially unacceptable.
After the judge dropped the case, @StanleyCohenLaw
wrote this, to make clear I did not pay any fine associated with my act of civil disobedience. I am glad that Stanley and I are friends now and I will always appreciate his solidarity. As he says: Up the Rebels!
Feminism aims a Molotov cocktail at the powers that uphold patriarchy and promises to obliterate them; it does not promise to support a woman simply because she is a woman. #Italy#GiorgiaMeloni
When I heard that #MahsaAmini, a Kurdish woman in Iran, died after being in the custody of the “morality police” who'd taken her in because she wasn't wearing a “proper hijab” I thought of other female lives sacrificed on the altar of a piece of cloth feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-…
I thought of the 15 girls who died in a school fire in Saudi Arabia, in 2002, after “morality police” in that country barred them from fleeing the burning building—and kept firefighters from rescuing them—because the girls weren't wearing headscarves & cloaks required in public
No one was put on trial. Parents were silenced. The only concession to the horror was that girls’ education was quietly taken away from the Salafi zealots washingtonpost.com/archive/opinio…
So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white women that they’re lucky to live in the U.S. and not Saudi Arabia/Iran, that so many white women didn't pay enough attention to theocracy that white supremacy was building right here feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…
It was being built by white men who look like their fathers, brothers, husbands & sons, not the scary brown men with beards, right?
And white women who look like their mothers, sisters & daughters.
As you see it, the glory and power of the feminist revolution in Iran right now, ask yourself what the fuck you are doing to fight theocrats and fascists, and make sure it’s more than hashtags and just voting. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…