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Sep 25 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
As women in iran lead a feminist revolution against fascists and theocrats in their country feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-…
Italians are about to elect into power a woman who upholds fascism and theocracy.

Do not be fooled by the "first woman prime minister" description of #GiorgiaMeloni. She is no feminist.

She is a fascist who prefers ‘Mother, Italian, Christian.' #Italy

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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
Is that woman a fellow feminist revolutionary, fighting alongside us to destroy patriarchy and its attendant oppressions?

Or is she a Footsoldier of the Patriarchy, enforcing and upholding the barricades of patriarchy?

#GiorgiaMeloni is a fascist

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And the above makes this Persian version of the anti-fascist song Bella Ciao especially poignant h/t @rerutled

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Sep 25
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…
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Sep 24
A message to people in the U.S. marveling at the feminist revolution against theocracy in Iran. feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-…
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.

It's difficult to see theocrats when they look like you feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-wh…
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Sep 24
Glory and power to the women in Iran who have seized the narrative and become object and subject. #MahsaAmini #JinJiyanAzadi
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
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Sep 23
Glory and power to the women in Iran.

My new essay is written with love and solidarity for all fighting for freedom in that country.

Essay: Women, Life, Liberty

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My message to people in the U.S.:

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.
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Sep 22
“She’s too busy writing about how aging is affecting her lady bits.”

A recent “criticism” that I welcome!
I am indeed busy writing about how aging is affecting my “lady bits.”

And what of it?
I’m busy with all things menopause, yes.

Because menopause is shit and menopause is amazing.

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