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Mona Eltahawy
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She/Her. Newsletter: feministgiant.com Instagram: Mastodon: @monaeltahawy@mastodon.online And Patreon: patreon.com/monaeltahawy
Cairo/NYCfeministgiant.comJoined April 2009

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Book news! I am thrilled and delighted to share that my wonderful agent and I have sold my new book to the wonderful . So excited I’ll again be working with Rakia, who edited The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls. Get ready for THE KING HERSELF!
Text: International women’s rights activist and author of HEADSCARVES AND HYMENS and THE SEVEN NECESSARY SINS FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS Mona Eltahawy’s THE KING HERSELF: HOW HATSHEPSUT HELPED ME UNBECOME, a menopause love/hate story about aging and becoming more stronger, fearless and more herself than ever before, inspired by Eltahawy’s obsession with Hatshepsut, the gender-bending Egyptian woman-god-king who was the most powerful person in the ancient world for 20 years, to Rakia Clark at Mariner, in an exclusive submission, by Mina Hamedi at Janklow & Nesbit (NA).
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The FIGHT to SMASH #PATRIARCHY is GLOBAL! Join us! 👇👇👇
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FEMINIST GIANT Global Roundup curated by Inaara Merani: -Butch Women Bikers Protect Ontario Drag Event -Indonesian Women Preserving Juicing Tradition -S. Korean Lawmaker’s Protest -Drag Isn’t Dangerous Telethon -LGBTQ Case at Eswatini Court open.substack.com/pub/feministgi
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FEMINIST GIANT Global Roundup curated by Inaara Merani: -Butch Women Bikers Protect Ontario Drag Event -Indonesian Women Preserving Juicing Tradition -S. Korean Lawmaker’s Protest -Drag Isn’t Dangerous Telethon -LGBTQ Case at Eswatini Court
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Please donate to Dugsi Dayz @ Edinburgh Fringe 2023. First Somali, & female let theatre company to get this opportunity but it's very difficult if you aren't rich to afford accommodation in Edinburgh for the Fringe.
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Sending love and solidarity to my feminist friends and comrades in Namibia! 💜✊🏽❤️
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THE SLUT SHAME PLEDGE is an oath taken every year at the #slutshamewalk as a call to action and Declaration of Independence from patriarchal oppression. It is taken from the book 'The 7 necessary sins of women and girls' by @monaeltahawy #feminism #endrapeculture #endthesilence
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You're right. But, to be honest, I don't want Americans getting together and trying to "help" homeless people anymore. The last time y'all did that, you just reinstituted committing people against their will. Americans don't know how to help people so please just stop.
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It is a crime and a moral failing that the wealthiest country in the world does so little for the unhoused and the impoverished; it in fact keeps so many unhoused and impoverished and then punishes them for it. And in the case of Jordan Neely—executes them, publicly lynches them.
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I often think about how I would react to being unhoused, hungry, tired. It's not pretty. Once you put yourself in their shoes - I mean really think about it - yeah, I would be angry and upset too. That he was murdered for it shows how crappy humans are.
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The murder of Jordan Neely has enraged and deeply saddened me. It is not a crime nor a moral failing to be unhoused and impoverished or to have mental health issues. nytimes.com/2023/05/04/nyr
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Worse, to me, two aided in the lynching. Two humans saw the situation, overcame inertia and decided the thing to do in that situation was to participate in a murder. It was/is more pro-social to harm & kill than it was/is to be a struggling human. That is terrifying, to me.
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Homelessness shouldn't be a crime
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It is a crime and a moral failing that the wealthiest country in the world does so little for the unhoused and the impoverished; it in fact keeps so many unhoused and impoverished and then punishes them for it. And in the case of Jordan Neely—executes them, publicly lynches them.
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I’m blown away also not a single person seemed to care at all about a human who clearly had a disease of the brain. If they were having a diabetes episode, we can restrain them? No one offered him drink or food when he clearly stated his needs. Appalling and disgusting
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Someone explain why we inflict trauma on people for being poor? PTSD & other mental health issues can be exacerbated as well as created by the trauma of no support, no home, no food & living under a threat of violence Nevermind, time to get your nails done... I stand with Mona
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It is a crime and a moral failing that the wealthiest country in the world does so little for the unhoused and the impoverished; it in fact keeps so many unhoused and impoverished and then punishes them for it. And in the case of Jordan Neely—executes them, publicly lynches them.
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I am disgusted that no one intervened to help Jordan and to stop that white racist fuck from murdering him. Remember: when white cops murder Black men by putting them in chokeholds as the world watches, they give a green light to white vigilantes like Jordan’s murderer.
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It is a crime and a moral failing that the wealthiest country in the world does so little for the unhoused and the impoverished; it in fact keeps so many unhoused and impoverished and then punishes them for it. And in the case of Jordan Neely—executes them, publicly lynches them.
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Reading this, I kind of feel safe watching women empowerment rise.
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FEMINIST GIANT Global Roundup curated by Inaara Merani: -Afghan Women’s Protest -Tokyo Pride Returns -Standing Up Against GBV in Tajikistan -London Protests Against Uganda’s Anti-LGBTQ Bil -Portland Women’s Sports Bar open.substack.com/pub/feministgi
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The fight to smash #Patriarchy is GLOBAL! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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FEMINIST GIANT Global Roundup curated by Inaara Merani: -Afghan Women’s Protest -Tokyo Pride Returns -Standing Up Against GBV in Tajikistan -London Protests Against Uganda’s Anti-LGBTQ Bil -Portland Women’s Sports Bar open.substack.com/pub/feministgi
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