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Oct 5 5 tweets 4 min read
“To the girls of the Middle East and North Africa: Be immodest, rebel, disobey, and know you deserve to be free,” reads the dedication of my 2015 book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution. feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-g…
And now as I watch schoolgirls in Iran erupt, I feel as if I’ve woken up and there they are!

Girls fully realized, not dreamed up, not a fantasy, but erupted into their full glory.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-g… #Mahsa_Amini #IranProtests #IranRevolution
To see girls hold in one hand the enforced hijab they now refuse to wear (be immodest, rebel, disobey) and with the other they give the middle finger to the patriarchy that enforced that hijab on them, knowing they deserve to be free! Text: To the girls of the Middle East and North Africa: Be iCover of Headscarves and Hymens (pink letters): Why the Midd
Glory and power to girls–their rage, and their daring and their audacity, their immodesty and rebelliousness, their disobedience, and most of all: their knowledge that they deserve to be free.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-g… #mahsaminiمهساامینی #IranRevolution #IranProtests
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Oct 6
Watching a revolution is like staring at the sun; it will ruin your vision for life. You think those girls flipping their theocrats off in the schoolroom in Iran will leave their rage behind in that room when they go home? #Mahsa_Amini #IranProtests2022 #IranReveloution On top of a photograph of I...
You think those girls who chased away an education director from their school grounds will pack up their audacity into their satchels after school is out? feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-g… #Mahsa_Amini #IranProtests2022
You think those schoolgirls chanting “Death to the dictator” do not go home and see the dictator there as well?

You think that girls around the world are not watching, knowing that they too can erupt?
#IranRevolution #Mahsa_Amini
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Oct 5
If girls are volcanoes, as Ursula K. Le Guin once said, what happens when they erupt?

TL:DR the patriarchy is FUCKED.

The longer version: is the subject of my new essay, which is dedicated to girls in Iran.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-g… #MahsaAmini #IranProtests #IranRevolution2022
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I’ve written two other essays on the feminist revolution in #Iran.

Essay: Iran's Feminist Revolution--Women, Life, Freedom feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-… #Mahsa_Amini #IranProtests #IranRevolution
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Oct 3
This picture of schoolgirls in Iran.

Wow.

via @theasianfmnst via @1500tasvir #MahsaAmini #IranProtests2022 #IranRevolution Schoolgirls photographed fr...
Fuck theocracy everywhere.

Fuck fascism everywhere.

Fuck the patriarchy in every time zone and every universe.

Glory and power to the girls and women in Iran.
feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-… #MahsaAmini #IranProtests2022 #IranRevolution
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Oct 3
Glory and lower to girls and women fighting for freedom in Iran h/t @rerutled
Glory and power to girls and women fighting for freedom in Iran h/t @rerutled
Glory and power to the girls and the women in Iran who have seized the narrative and become object and subject. Women and girls are too often the afterthought of a revolution, rarely its reason for being. feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-… #Mahsa_Amini #IranProtests2022 #IranRevolution
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Oct 3
My #perimenopause has mostly had two settings
- beat someone up
- have a breakdown
Which is why I love the film Everything Everywhere All at Once so much: Evelyn beats many people up and has a breakdown of sorts. It is the perfect menopause allegory. #MenopauseAwarenessMonth
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! feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #MenopauseAwarenessMonth
And I don’t know if Michelle Yeoh has ever talked about her #menopause transition. I don’t care, I love her. She’s 4yrs older than me so I’m claiming her too. It is enough for me that Evelyn gets to beat people up AND have a breakdown of sorts because fuck, yes please!
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Oct 2
Thank you.
1. Anxiety
2. Vaginal/vulvar dryness
3. Insomnia
#MenopauseAwarenessMonth
I'll be writing more about anxiety in my essay for Menopause Awareness Day later this month.

Meanwhile, I discuss it in my most recent essay on #menopause feministgiant.com/p/essay-menopa… #MenopauseAwarenessMonth
And this one is about vaginal/vulvar dryness feministgiant.com/p/moisturize-y… #MenopauseAwarenessMonth
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