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Mona Eltahawy

@monaeltahawy

Nov 3

Mid-term elections coming up in the U.S. next week. You will hear again & again about "women," voting, abortion.

The race of those "women" matters.

White women have driven the anti-abortion movement and the majority of white women voters vote GOP feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-wh…

The same arrogance and naiveté that made so many white Americans think Trump would never become president is that same arrogance and naiveté that made so many think "it would never happen here" about abortion bans as well.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…

Abortion is banned in so many places because Christian zealots voted for fellow white Christian zealots who installed other Christian zealots on courts, including the highest court in the land.

It is the biggest victory of a white Christian theocratic revolution.

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Mona Eltahawy

@monaeltahawy

Nov 2

I have set up an account at MASTODON.

monaeltahawy@mastodon.online

For now, I am still here on Twitter.

Between Musk and the Saudi ownership, unclear for how much longer. Unsure what will come first: I leave/they kick me out.

The best way to stay in touch with me and my work is here:

feministgiant.com

As I've said before, I've been on Twitter since 2009.

Staying here or not is not about "fighting."

Many of us have been fighting on this site for years, with very little backing from Twitter.

And often fighting the powers that be at Twitter itself.

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Mona Eltahawy

@monaeltahawy

Nov 1

Nov. 1, 2002: I got into my car for an 18-day solo road trip from Seattle ,where I’d just ended a disastrous marriage, to NYC. I’d learned to drive just 18 months before.After I arrived, I sold my car & haven’t driven since. Clearly I learned so that I could drive towards freedom

Many people learn to drive as teenagers, but when I was a teenager, my family moved to Saudi Arabia, where in 1982 women were banned from driving.

I learned to drive when I was 33yo. And 18 months after I learned, I drove alone across the United States, from West to East Coast.

My biggest love story is with NYC.

Moving to the US was never a priority before I married in 2000. And after ending my marriage, I knew the only place big enough for my restlessness was NYC.

I am so glad I started that road trip to NYC 20 years ago.

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Mona Eltahawy

@monaeltahawy

Oct 30

Feminism, Film, Aging:

“Bitch” and “cunt” are not the worst things you could call a woman. Selfish is.

There is liberation in speaking our desire. We are called selfish because patriarchy understands the dangers of such liberation

feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-…

Feminism, Film, Aging:

To see older women with options, we understand why women are denied a three-dimensional life, why their imagination is flattened out of daring to want any more than what they have. Because we would want more, we would want different feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…

I am 55yo and can barely watch films and TV shows these days because they are too often about high school students or 31 year olds whose dilemmas are too far in my past to care about and whose parents, who are my age, are too peripheral to the narrative to keep my attention.

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Mona Eltahawy

@monaeltahawy

Oct 29

An Egyptian friend and I yesterday talked at length yesterday at how enthralled we are at the feminist revolution in Iran; especially that it centres feminism in the way ours in Egypt did not. We are thrilled that it will change the region and the world! feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-…

The in the Arabic-speaking countries were sparked by a man — Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor–who set himself on fire and in so doing sparked revolutions and uprisings in the region that have stumbled and remain incomplete.

And here now are women in Iran reigniting our revolutionary hearts with the feminism those Arab uprisings lacked.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-… #Mahsa_Amini #IranRevoIution

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Mona Eltahawy

@monaeltahawy

Oct 28

Thank you all who’ve reached out, found me on other platforms, and subscribed to FEMINIST GIANT.

I’ve been on here since 2009 and have survived hate from every group imaginable, from the Saudi regime to white supremacist.

EM is new beast. Monitoring & will decide what’s best.

EM is the richest man on earth. He’s a new beast here.

It’s too early to say I’ve survived hate all these years so I’m not leaving. Moderation was awful before. And now?

He’s dangerous and we don’t know what he’ll do.

I am taking seriously what could come.

Twitter—or rather people who care about me on Twitter—saved me twice:

-November 2011 when Egyptian riot police broke my arms and sexually assaulted me and I managed to tweet from detention and #FreeMona trended in 15 minutes and helped get me released.

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