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Sep 26 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
I LOVE that I still live rent free in the minds of these Australian racist, misogynist fucks, three years after I scared them shitless and turned their country upside down with a TV episode that their ostensible democracy banned. Ha! Cry more! And fuck off.
“How long must we wait for men and boys to stop murdering us, to stop beating us and to stop raping us? How many rapists must we kill?" 10 months ago I said that on an Australian TV show. A bunch of white men complained and the episode was banned.

I remind you that soon after airing live, it was banned and has never been unbanned even though the govt media body cleared it for replay.

Fuck civility

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These Australian fascist apologists are crying because of this thread calling Italy's new prime minister the fascist that she is. Note: her ascension to power is one of the few times they support a woman. Note she is the head of the BROTHERS of Italy party

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Sep 27
The white men who tell white women in the U.S “Be grateful you live in the U.S. and not Saudi Arabia or Iran,” are proving my point and giving me material for my next essay. ImageImageImage
It is easy to see theocracy when the theocrats don’t look like you.
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,
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Sep 26
This is for anyone in the U.S.--but especially white women cheering on Iranian women. Remember: theocrats are hard to see when they look like you. Where is your feminist revolutions against *your* theocrats? #IranRevolution #mahsaAmimi
We are more than what's on our heads and what's in between our legs:

In Iran--women fighting vs theocrats who enforce hijab

In the U.S.--women fighting vs theocrats who enforce abortion bans

Where is your feminist revolution vs your theocrats?

feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-…
As you watch the glory and power of the feminist revolution in Iran, ask yourself (I’m looking at you people in the U.S. cheering on the feminist revolution vs theocrats over there) what the fuck you are doing to fight theocrats and fascists over here feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
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Sep 26
Arab uprisings were sparked by a man, Mohamed Bouazizi, who set himself on fire and sparked revolutions & uprisings in the region that have stumbled & remain incomplete. Here now are Iranian women reigniting our revolutionary hearts w/the feminism those Arab uprisings lacked.
Iran is not an Arab country but here come the women there to take up the baton, not by self-immolation but by setting alight a tool of their Patriarchy; a tool many other women in the countries around Iran recognize all too well. feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-…
My essay on the feminist revolution in Iran is a kind of continuation from my essay of 10 years ago about the need for a feminist revolution in the Arabic-speaking countries of the Mideast & NAfrica feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-10…
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Sep 25
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. Mona in a pink coat spray painting over an adMona spray painting over an ad with a woman in between her aMona being arrested by a cop with a dogMona in handcuffs being led away by a cop with people watchi
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. Stanley wearing a black suit and a keffeyeh and Mona wearing
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!
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Sep 25
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

france24.com/en/europe/2022…
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
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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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