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Nov 9 9 tweets 5 min read
When the final results of the U.S. #MidtermElection are in, let's see how many women governors, senators, representative etc are at the age of the #menopause transition and how many talk about it publicly in the way only Nicola Sturgeon so far has.
For many reasons, cis women reach pinnacles of political power as they enter midlife–age requirements of certain political positions, children (if they have them) have grown, or simply because it takes years to accrue power and to make it up that ladder.

#Menopause #Midterms
And it is at that moment, in midlife as they accrue the most political power, that cis women also go through the menopause transition.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-po… #MidtermElections2022 #Menopause
For too long, women in politics have had to hide all that makes them a cis woman or flaunt all that the patriarchy most values in a woman–youth, fertility, motherhood. Look at Giorgia Meloni’s “I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am Christian” france24.com/en/live-news/2…
Nicola Sturgeon refuses that game and in so doing has signaled she is out of the bounds of patriarchal control. Surely that is what makes us menopausal folks so terrifying. #Menopause
And surely that is why we have been shamed into feeling we have “lost” something. So that we don’t recognize what we have gained.

Power. We have gained power.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-menopa… #Menopause #MidtermElections2022
“There is an upside to this stage in life where menopause can reduce women’s confidence but I think getting to this stage in life gives you another kind of confidence…‘eff it a little bit and say what you think and who cares what other people think," Nicola Sturgeon.
There is a liberating element to all of this," First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon

feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-po… #Menopause #Midterms
Perhaps I'll call my next essay the Midterms Menopause or the Menopause Midterms, something like that!

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More from @monaeltahawy

Nov 9
For anyone still surprised that so many white women still vote Republican after Roe v Wade was overturned

feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-wh… #Midterms #AbortionRights
White, Christian zealots used democracy to cut it at its knees by destroying the right to abortion–a right which most Americans support. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing you that you’re lucky to live in the U.S. and not Saudi Arabia or Iran, that so many of you did not pay enough attention to the theocracy that white supremacy was building right here. feministgiant.com/p/essay-dear-w…
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Nov 9
As #Midterms results come in, I am posting again my essays on fascism, theocracy, and white supremacist patriarchy and its footsoldiers:

On Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of the most dangerous politicians in the U.S. today

feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…
Marjorie Taylor Greene is so dangerous, I wrote two essays about her within days of #Jan6

If Marjorie Taylor Greene was a Muslim...

feministgiant.com/p/if-marjorie-… #Midterms2022
Fascism and theocracy don't happen overnight.

On white Christian zealotry. Theocrats are difficult to see when they look like you.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha… #Midterms
Read 6 tweets
Nov 8
Dear white women cheering Iranian women:

Ask yourself how you allowed white, Christian zealots to use democracy to cut it at its knees by destroying the right to abortion–a right which most Americans support.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-dear-w…
Anyone who is not an able-bodied, white cisgender heterosexual man should fear what is to come.

When will you start burning things to the ground? Where is your fucking rage?

Where is your feminist revolution against your theocrats?

#Midterms2022
Roe v Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court of the United States– a court stacked with Christian zealots.

Roe v Wade was overturned because of Christian zealots who voted for fellow white Christian zealots who installed other Christian zealots on courts, incl SCOTUS
Read 5 tweets
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.
Read 7 tweets
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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