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Oct 11 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Today is #DayOfTheGirl

Is there anything more breathtaking than schoolgirls telling patriarchy to get fucked? #IranProtests2022 #MahsaAmini
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? #IranProtests #MahsaAmini #IranRevolution2022 #DayOfTheGirl feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-g…
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?

You think those schoolgirls chanting “Death to the dictator” do not go home and see the dictator there as well?
Polite and well-behaved girls do not terrify the patriarchy. These are girls who terrify patriarchy.

You think that girls around the world are not watching, knowing that they too can erupt? feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-… #IranRevolution2022 #DayOfTheGirl
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… #DayOfTheGirl #IranRevolution2022

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Oct 12
Every time Ashli Babbitt trends,I will remind you:

Ashli Babbitt never imagined the Capitol Police would shoot her because the police rarely shoot white women, unless it’s a cop who shoots his wife at home. #AshliBabbitt #January6th feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…
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Oct 11
At the @metmuseum with the King Herself metmuseum.org/perspectives/s… A statue of HatshepsutText: I love the androgyny ...
Listen to the conversation between @metmuseum curator Aude Semat and me about the King Herself: Hatshepsut metmuseum.org/perspectives/s…
And read my essay The King Herself feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ki…
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Oct 11
Thank you @albertinebooks for tonight’s conversation btwn Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux & Kate Zambreno.

I thanked Ms. Ernaux for Happening, about her “illegal” abortion in 1963 France.I told her I had an “illegal” abortion in 1996 Egypt & saw myself in her depiction 📷 @rerutled Two women standing together. On the left is Annie wearing a Mona talking as Annie listens
She asked me if abortion was still “illegal” in Egypt. It is.

I wrote about all of that here, including why I use “-“ around illegal feministgiant.com/p/essay-lies-s…
It’s important to share our abortion stories.

This essay and the one ☝🏽 are also both available in Arabic thanks to @itmeansagift translation feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-…
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Oct 10
Too many people laughed Marjorie Taylor Greene off. She is one of the most dangerous politicians in the U.S. today. She always has been. Even though too many maintained we should just "ignore her" or some rubbish. She is dangerous. feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr… h/t @rerutled
The predictably-craven GOP leadership initially backed Greene’s male GOP opponents because party leaders thought she was an extremist who did not stand a chance in primaries. Just as they did with Trump. And when she won, the GOP embrace was swift. feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…
MTG has long been a white supremacist, Islamophobic, antisemitic fuck. Politico reported on her vile videos even before she was elected politico.com/news/2020/06/1…
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One of the hardest impacts of #perimenopause for me has been anxiety. I've written about the ways it's kicked my fucking ass feministgiant.com/p/essay-fallin…
There have been mornings when I am overwhelmed with an impending sense of doom. And I wonder if my anxiety–brand new, I was never an anxious person–is my despair at that fuckery that once flummoxed younger me.
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Oct 9
(tw: rape) I am going to a screening tonight of the film Women Talking, based on the book by Miriam Toews. It Between 2005 and 2009, more than 130 Mennonite women were drugged and raped by men in the community. The book and film tell their story theguardian.com/books/2018/aug…
It is one of the most powerful books I have read. The cover of a book. On a b...The inside dust jacket of a...
“I’ve always been trying to challenge the patriarchy, specifically of my Mennonite community, but I’m concerned with the suppression of girls and women especially, and any place in the world that falls under fundamentalist, authoritarian thinking,” says Toews.
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