Thread by @monaeltahawy

The revolution in Iran is entering its sixth week.

Glory and power to the women in Iran who have seized the narrative and become object and subject. feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-… #Mahsa_Amini #IranProtests #IranRevoIution

Glory and power to girls in Iran–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… #Mahsa_Amini #IranProtests #IranRevoIution

As you watch the glory & 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 & fascists over here feministgiant.com/p/essay-dear-w…

Watching a revolution is like staring at the sun; it will ruin your vision for life. Every time you close your eyes, its imprint is still there. And it will singe your heart so that ‘no’ is no longer enough, and ‘I demand’ is the start of the list of what you know you deserve.

A feminist revolution targets patriarchy in the State, Street, and the Home because it recognizes that there is no liberation without sexual liberation, without gender liberation, without queer liberation.

It states as a revolutionary statement: I own my body, not the State, not the Street, not the Home.

I do.

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A feminist revolution dares to imagine liberation from the militarism of the State and from its echo in the conservatism of the Street and the Home. A feminist revolution recognizes that the hardest revolution of all is the one at the Home, because all dictators go home.

And a feminist revolution disobeys all those who insist “People are not ready,” because as revolutionaries we must recognize that if our communities are ready for us, we are too late.

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