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Dec 4 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
"We, the protesters, don't care about no hijab no more. We've been going out w/out it for the past 70 days.

"A revolution is what we have. Hijab was the start of it and we don't want anything, anything less, but death for the dictator and a regime change" bbc.com/news/world-mid…
Glory and power to the women in Iran who have seized the narrative and become object and subject in a revolution they began and which they propel.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-… #Mahsa_Amini #IranRevolution
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… #Mahsa_Amini #IranRevolution
As you watch the glory and power of the feminist revolution in Iran right now, ask yourself (I’m looking at you people in the U.S. cheering on the feminist revolution vs theocrats) what the fuck you are doing to fight theocrats & fascists over here feministgiant.com/p/essay-dear-w…
Burn. Shit. Down.

Point to your “morality police” and what they have made compulsory and burn it to the ground. feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-… #Mahsa_Amini #IranRevolution2022
It was an honour to join the Feminists4JinaNYC protest in NYC on November 25 to support the feminist revolution in Iran. #Mahsa_Amini #IranRevolution2022
Please note many Iranian have expressed much skepticism at this news that Iran has said it will disband the "morality police" via @sarselll

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Dec 3
It was around this time on Saturday that I've urged you all in the past to help us publish the menopause anthology Bloody Hell! unbound.com/books/bloody-h…
And here I am to tell you again that it is fully funded!

Thank you all who pledged.

And a thousand thanks to @ruthannharnisch for her super generous support that helped us get fully funded!

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And very soon after Bloody Hell! reached our goal, I finally reached my goal: postmenopause.

I've finally arrived!

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Nov 23
When I say home is the most dangerous place for women and girls, this is what I mean:

A new study by UNODC and UN Women shows that, on average, more than five women or girls were killed every hour by someone in their own family in 2021. unwomen.org/en/digital-lib…
"While these numbers are alarmingly high, the true scale of femicide may be much higher," UNDOC and UN Women.

I wrote this last year about cis men's terrorism against women and girls feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-te…
If terrorism means political violence intended to scare us into changing the way we behave, then surely femicide is terrorism.

Patriarchy is the ideology; cis men are the terrorists.
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Nov 22
I’ve been training with Jeana Fanelli for 4 weeks, and I am loving it. It’s my postmenopause gift to myself—to lift heavy and get strong. Here I am deadlifting 85lbs
And 55lbs squats.
When I leave the gym after my sessions with my trainer Jeana Fanelli, I feel my body understands the assignment and walks with power. feministgiant.com/p/postmenopaus…
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Nov 20
Some people have tried to deny or call into question these figures. So here’s more info that should further clarify why giving #Qatar the #WorldCup was an awful move.
The total figure of 6,751 in The Guardian article is based on official statistics from the governments of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka… #WorldCup amp.dw.com/en/fact-check-… Headline: Fact Check How many people have died for the Qatar
These are migrant workers who went to Qatar as healthy individuals who have died over the past decade—since Qatar was awarded the #WorldCup

The fact that some are trying to distract from the travesty of this tournament by whataboutery is disgraceful
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Nov 19
If I were a postmenopausal killer whale, I would be the outcast, transient kind. The restless kind. The kind that hunts seals and eats their livers.

feministgiant.com/p/postmenopaus…
I am finally postmenopausal–the years that follow that one day, menopause, which marks 12 months since the last menstrual cycle–and it has gone to my head. In the best possible way. 

feministgiant.com/p/postmenopaus…
The postmenopausal killer whales are not flights of my postmenopausal delirium, however. Humans and killer whales (and the short finned pilot whale) are the only species who go through menopause. 

And we really don’t know why. Yes, really.
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Nov 18
At least 6500 migrant workers have died in #Qatar since it was awarded the #WorldCup.

@rerutled did the math. In a tournament with 64 matches total, 90mins per match:

At least 1 worker death for every single minute of match play.

That is why I am boycotting #WorldCup2022
An upcoming essay will explain more reasons I am boycotting this #WorldCup. (My laptop is on and off working at the moment!).

Here's a Guardian story on migrant worker deaths in Qatar.

theguardian.com/global-develop…
And this, which I wrote to coincide with the men's Euro and Copa America finals last year contains alarming figures about the spike in intimate partner violence against women and children during major men's sporting tournaments, especially the #WorldCup

feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f…
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