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Feb 16 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
I am 55yo and childfree by choice, happily so. And you know what has made that choice possible? My two abortions. feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-… #Childfree
In 1996, I had an “illegal” abortion in Egypt and in 2000, I had a “legal” abortion in the US.

I use inverted commas because the State can fuck off with its opinions about what I can and can’t do with my uterus.

That control belongs to me.

feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-… #Childfree
I was not raped.

I was not sick.

The pregnancies did not threaten my life.

I did not already have children.

I just did not want to be pregnant.

I did not want to have a child.

And so I had two abortions.
#Childfree
I am glad I had my abortions. They gave me the freedom to live the life I have chosen.

And I have chosen to be #childfree

feministgiant.com/p/unmothering
Here is my essay on my abortions translated into Arabic by @itmeansagift

feministgiant.com/p/-

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Feb 16
It is good to see articles about being childfree by choice. This one features mostly white people bbc.com/worklife/artic… h/t @rerutled #Childfree
I wrote this essay on being childfree by choice because we need to hear from more women of colour and women from different cultural and faith backgrounds as well as trans men and non-binary people who choose to be childfree. I have my own book planned. feministgiant.com/p/unmothering
I'm happy with the life I have created. I have never wondered what it would have been like to have children.

I say that because we often hear “you’ll regret it when it’s too late.” Well, here I am on the other side -- it is “too late” -- and I am here to say: I do not regret it
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Feb 15
Researchers found that more than half of Republicans believe the U.S. should be a strictly Christian nation, either adhering to the ideals of Christian nationalism (21%) or sympathizing with those views (33%). h/t @inpoco npr.org/2023/02/14/115…
According to the survey half of Christian nationalism adherents and nearly 4 in 10 sympathizers said they support the idea of an authoritarian leader in order to keep these Christian values in society
The survey also found correlations between people who hold Christian nationalist views as well as anti-Black, anti-immigrant, antisemitic views, anti-Muslim and patriarchal views.

npr.org/2023/02/14/115…
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Feb 15
First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon is resigning
nytimes.com/live/2023/02/1… h/t @rerutled
Nicola Sturgeon is not the first woman to lead a country. But it is telling that the only other cis woman leader that she can compare her experience of the menopause transition with is fictional. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-po…
Because other than Sturgeon and Danish TV series Borgen’s Birgitte Nyborg, you would think that being elected into office rendered female political leaders immune from a life transition that affects everyone who has ever had a uterus.

#nicolasturgeon
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Feb 14
Romance is an uprising in the name of your humanity.

It is imperative that we write our own stories of love so that we are not objects of geopolitical hypocrisies but instead subjects of our own romances.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-life-l… #ValentinesDay
Who is considered worthy of love, who is allowed to want it?

Who is considered worthy of freedom and who is allowed to want to be free?

The answer to those questions is also the answer to who is worthy of living and who is allowed to live. #ValentinesDay
Because the answer to all those questions undergirds our very humanity.

Love. Life. And Liberty.

Fuck the pursuit of happiness if only those who dehumanize me are considered worthy of it. #ValentinesDay
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Feb 14
I usually ignore Valentine’s Day and I rarely talk or write about love. But much like with religion, if you don’t claim your right to shape, critique and make demands of love...
...if you don’t stake a claim, even if you don’t practice–you cede the ground to the absurd, the foolish, and the nonsensical.

So here I am, staking my claim to love, as a feminist in love and in my 50s.

i.e. I am both practicing and preaching.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-a-femi…
I wanted nothing to do with love when I was younger. I started having nightmares when I was 17 that I’d married the wrong man.

My subconscious knew something my conscious took years to understand: I was neither heterosexual nor monogamous.
#ValentinesDay
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Feb 9
The word "finally" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Finally.

What happens during menopause? Science is finally piecing it together. nationalgeographic.com/magazine/artic… via @NatGeoMag #menopause
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.
feministgiant.com/p/postmenopaus…
The theories that abound mostly revolve around the notion that we are here to reproduce.

It’s either the “granny effect”
theguardian.com/science/2017/j…
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