Thread by @monaeltahawy

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

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1600501814129991685

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

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

I see a rage and determination that cannot be contained.

I see middle fingers raised, and I hear Fuck the patriarchy.

And I know that every girl and woman in the countries around Iran hears it, and I know it reverberates around the world feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-g… #IranRevolution

Is it because it's a feminist revolution that was began and propelled by women?

Because back in 2011, Time had pictures like mine and this, of Egyptian revolutionary Ahmed Harara
content.time.com/time/specials/…

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… #IranRevolution #mahsaami̇ni̇