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@monaeltahawy

Feminist // Radical // Book: Headscarves & Hymens // New book in progress // Tattoos //

Cairo/NYC
Joined April 2009

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    I gave this talk about being a feminist & Muslim & the importance of complication at 1st TED Woman in 2010.

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    I don't always agree with her but I do know this. You cannot win a fight w . Don't even bother trying. Her "**** off, kitten!" has me in stitches everytime. She's weaponized babycats & is putting down the patriarchy. & I don't apologize for it

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    I like "fsck" because it gets past the radar, and also because of its geek origins.

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    I’ve been saving this one for you

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  8. I send my love and solidarity to you my sister and to feminist comrades in Kenya 💜✊🏽❤️

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    hahaha - don’t fuck with an Egyptian woman ... I learned that long ago.

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  10. I am delighted to be hated by you. Keep hating me. Who am I? I am a FEMINIST GIANT and your ignorance is beneath me. And my arrogance is absolutely tailormade for you, kitten.

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  11. The typo in “fuck” makes it look like I’m saying fuck the kkk or something, which works out for a typo.

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  13. Requests?! What am I? Q DJ? You have to earn a “fuck off, kitten”!

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    7 hours ago

    “Patriarchy punishes women for profanity because it wants us to forever remain within the straitjacket of niceness and politeness, despite the violence it subjects us to.” YES!

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  15. It would delight me to see “fuck off, kitten” used far and wide.

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    19 hours ago

    It's easy enough, to not have an opinion on something. On whether what a woman wears is "appropriate". On whether what a woman says is "appropriate'. Consider not having an opinion.

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    19 hours ago

    You strongly condemn? Perhaps you should consider this: it's not your place. It's not your place to judge her speech. It's not your place to judge her comportment. It's a legacy of misogyny, that you're participating in. Consider:

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    8 hours ago

    2) obedience is the expectation that those you have power over continue to act in a way you find appropriate & it’s often WoC who are expected to be obedient as well as civil.

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    If white women are expected to be civil, WoC are expected to be obedient. What does this say about socialisation that is historically entrenched in the culturally hegemonic white economies of household management? 1) that misogyny is reproduced in these condemnations 1/

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    9 hours ago

    When i saw Vagina Monologues & heard the breakdown & reclamation of the word I knew it was my favourite word. The most taboo word of the English language referring to female anatomy? That word is mine! so powerful

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    Love this when u feel compelled to answer toxic

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