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Jan 22 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
The Supreme Court issued its decision on #RoeVWade on Jan. 22, 1973. It overturned #RoeVsWade on June 24, 2022

Essays I've written on #abortion. Several are also available in Arabic.

On my "illegal" abortion in Egypt and "legal" abortion in the US feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-…
I met Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux last year and told her how moved I was by the recounting of her "illegal" abortion in Happening and shared with her the story of my "illegal" abortion.

My essay on the film adaptation of "Happening."

feministgiant.com/p/essay-lies-s… #AbortionRights
For as long as patriarchy can shroud abortion with silence, it will continue to stamp it in shame. So I broke my silence to break free of shame.

I wrote this for @DuaLipa's newsletter Service95.com
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Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch might have been the face of the law that ended the federally protected right to an abortion (Dobbs vs Jackson Women's Health), but there's tag team of white women who destroyed abortion & helped build a theocracy feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-wh…
“There was a philosophical obligation on our part...to disrespect a law that disrespected women,” a member of Jane, an underground network of women who provided safe, “illegal,” and affordable abortions in Chicago before #RoevWade feministgiant.com/p/essay-disres…
I wonder how The Handmaid's Tale made (white) Americans think abortion would only ever be illegal (again) in a dystopian future, distant and alien to their everyday.

On the inability of (white) Americans to imagine losing a right

feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha… #RoeVWade
Abortion is a human right, not a bonus or a reward we must earn.

The Seven Necessary Sins for Fighting Abortion Bans

feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-se… #AbortionRights #RoeVWade
Not my essay but a warning: Unless the US develops the stomach for a long-overdue reckoning with the white supremacist Christian theocracy that has been unabashed in its destruction of #RoevWade, abortion rights will not be the only rights it destroyed. cnn.com/2023/01/20/pol…
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Jan 23
Weight: 115lbs

Text: There is a moment when you’re learning to deadlift that background moves into foreground, like those paintings full of dots that required you to look beyond the foreground into the background, so that the picture becomes apparent.
#ThisIs55
Training with Jeana Fanelli is shifting the tectonic plates of my being.

There is an earthquake at the core of my being and I am living and loving it.

New essay soon.

Until then feministgiant.com/p/postmenopaus… #ThisIs55
I wonder, in this essay, if the anxiety I experience during my menopause transition is my despair at the fuckery that once flummoxed younger me.

I am shifting that despair now. Lifting gives me the inner power to do that.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-menopa…
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Jan 23
An international initiative is calling for action against homophobia in UK men’s football following a series of “damaging” homophobic incidents in recent weeks.
thepinknews.com/2023/01/18/cal…
A statement released by Football v Homophobia has called on the Football Association (FA), professional clubs, media, police and prosecution authorities to crackdown on homophobia in the sport. footballvhomophobia.com/homophobia-in-…
I wrote this about the violent misogyny that accompanies men's football across the world.

The violence that goes home with the men’s game is a wholly-owned subsidiary of patriarchy. You would be naive to think it is limited to targeting women & children. feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f…
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Jan 21
Unless the United States develops the stomach for a long-overdue reckoning with the white supremacist Christian theocracy that has been unabashed in its destruction of Roe v Wade, abortion rights will not be the only rights it destroyed. cnn.com/2023/01/20/pol… #RoeVsWade
This is a white supremacist Christian movement driven by white supremacist, Christian zealots who are patriarchal to the core.

And plenty of white women have helped build that theocracy

feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-wh… #RoeVsWade
U.S. media tiptoe around all of this because these white Christian zealots are the fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and relatives of white reporters.

It's hard to see theocrats when they look like you

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Jan 17
It is telling that police are thought to be our protectors from rapists and predators when they themselves are too often the rapists and predators. feministgiant.com/p/essay-fuck-t…
It is telling that police are thought to be our protectors from rapists and predators when they do very little to protect us from rapists and predators.

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tw: rape, sexual violence

David Carrick, who worked for an elite armed unit in London’s Metropolitan Police, admitted 49 offences, including 24 rapes, against 12 women over 18 years. vice.com/en/article/5d3…
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Jan 17
I was sexually assaulted twice during Hajj in 1982. I was 15 years old. I started #MosqueMeToo in 2018 after a Pakistani Muslim woman called Sabica Khan said she'd been in sexually assaulted during pilgrimage.
I wrote about being sexually assaulted during Hajj in my 2015 book and 2019 book and this in 2018 about #MosqueMeToo washingtonpost.com/news/global-op…
I was the first person to speak about being sexually assaulted during Hajj, in Arabic on #Egyptian primetime TV in 2013. #MosqueMeToo
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Jan 15
That "critic who wrote about EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE as a metaphor for menopause" would be me! Thanks for headsup @SybyllaM feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…
#EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce is the perfect menopause allegory film. I don’t care if that’s not what The Daniels had in mind when they wrote and directed it. It’s art. It’s out there. And my menopause claims it! feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…
It is enough for me that Evelyn gets to beat people up AND have a breakdown of sorts because fuck, yes please! That was the essence of my perimenopause on any given day.

THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT PERIMENOPAUSE IS! It is everything, It is everywhere. And it is all at once.
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