“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…
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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.
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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! 
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.
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