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Dec 7 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The revolution is not polite.

Mona Eltahawy: I’m serious about women fighting back. I want patriarchy to fear us irishtimes.com/culture/books/…
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Dec 9
It is good to see Oprah Winfrey and Maria Shriver share their experience of menopause.

Oprah said she ended Oprah's Book Club because her menopause transition left her unable to focus long enough to read

today.com/health/womens-…
And that heart palpitations--an impact of the menopause transition--took her to 5 different doctors.

“Nobody ever once suggested that it could be menopause."

“I have journals filled with ‘I don’t know if I’ll make it until the morning...I thought I was going to die every night"
Both women talk about the fine line between destigmatizing menopause by talking openly about anxiety, listelessness, palpitations, etc while also not contributing to ageism and the "women are crazy anyway" messages already out there.
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Dec 8
tw: regime violence, gender-based violence

Iranian security forces are targeting women at anti-regime protests with shotgun fire to their faces, breasts and genitals, according to interviews with medics across the country. theguardian.com/global-develop… #mahsaami̇ni̇ #IranRevolution
"Doctors and nurses – treating demonstrators in secret to avoid arrest – said they first observed the practice after noticing that women often arrived with different wounds to men, who more commonly had shotgun pellets in their legs, buttocks and backs." #IranRevolution
Revolutions are dangerous. All who rise up risk death and serious injury. The Iranian regime has factored gender into that risk.

A doctor from Isfahan province told The Guardian the regime "wanted to destroy the beauty of these women".

#IranRevolution #mahsaami̇ni̇
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Dec 8
Whether the Time magazine picture shows a peace sign/victory sign, it makes it seem as if the women were going to a concert or a picnic, not a revolution where they’ve been burning things and in which their lives are in danger for daring to rise up. #MahsaAmini #IranRevolution
Revolutions are profane and dangerous for those who revolt and those they revolt against.

Revolutions can do this to you. This is from exactly 11yrs ago, taken coincidentally for Time magazine's Person of the Year: The Protester, for which I was one of several.
📷 Peter Hapek Mona in a black sleeveless ...
The Iranian regime and its security forces have done similar and much worse to those rising up.

Revolutions are not picnics or concerts.

Don't sanitize the images of those who rise up.

Revolutions are not polite.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-… #mahsaami̇ni̇ #IranRevolution
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Dec 7
Mainstream media stumble when portraying revolutions and protests that are deliberately profane. As well as the feminist revolution in Iran, I'm also thinking of feminist-led protests in Poland in 2020
In daily protests organized by the feminist initiative Women’s Strike, they chanted “fuck off,” held massive banners that told the right-wing populist Law and Justice (PiS) government to “Get the fuck out” and “PiS off." feministgiant.com/p/fuck-is-a-fe…
Many of the articles about the protests in Poland, esp captions of photographs showing protestors holding signs such as one that read “If I wanted politics in my vagina, I’d fuck a senator,” were preceded by warnings that profanity lay ahead, to protect sensibility of the reader.
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Dec 7
Glory & power to the women & girls in Iran who have seized the narrative & become object and subject in a feminist revolution they began & which they propel.

They are heroes, yes. But look at Time magazine (L) impose politeness on their revolution (R). Revolutions are not polite Three women seen from the b...Schoolgirls seen from the b...
I see middle fingers raised, and I hear Fuck the patriarchy. That is erased when you replace the middle finger w/ peace sign.

Deliberate profanity by schoolgirls in Iran is one of the most powerful drivers of their revolution. feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-g… #Mahsa_Amini #IranRevolution
It is powerful to see schoolgirls hold in one hand the enforced hijab they now refuse to wear and with the other they give the middle finger to the patriarchy that enforced that hijab on them.

It is deliberately profane. Revolutions are not polite. #IranRevolution #mahsaami̇ni̇
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Dec 6
Michelle Yeoh is brilliant. She long has been. It is good to see her being acknowledged as such in more and more places. But remember she has long been brilliant.

time.com/icon-of-the-ye…
I certainly hope Michelle Yeoh wins an Oscar for her portrayal of Evelyn Wang in @allatoncemovie.

No Asian woman has won Best Actress Oscar. Ponder on that.

Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of my favourite all-time films. I wrote this about it.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…
“I do look at all my peers—Cate Blanchett, Olivia Colman, Helen Mirren—and go, Oh God, I envy all the different opportunities you get to showcase your talent again and again,” Yeoh says.

Viola Davis has said something very similar.

Ponder on that.

time.com/icon-of-the-ye…
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