Mona Eltahawy
Feminist. Tattoos. #MUFC. Books: Headscarves & Hymens (2015), The Seven Necessary Sins for Women & Girls (2019) pic: S. Enriquez-Nistal
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British Airways and Lufthansa Suspend Flights to Cairo, Citing Security Risks
Declan Walsh - Nytimes.com 11h 2 tweets
The suspensions came a day after the British government warned of “a heightened risk of terrorism against aviation.”
Mona Eltahawy British Airways and Lufthansa Suspend Flights to #Cairo, Citing Security Risks #Egypt 11h
Why legalising gay sex in India is not a Western idea
BBC News 202d 2 tweets
India's decision to decriminalise gay sex has taken the country back to its roots, some historians say.
Mona Eltahawy And this: Why legalising same-sex relations in #India is not a Western idea h/t #LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈 21h
How Do You Advocate for LGBTQ Rights When Your Culture Has No Word for Gay?
Electric Literature 21h 1 tweets
Trifonia Melibea Obono is an Equatorial Guinean writer and activist, who has published three novels (Herencia del bindendee, La bastarda, and La albina del dinero) and a short story collection, Las mujeres hablan mucho y mal, which won the 2018...
Mona Eltahawy Gender and sexual fluidity are not “western” or “white” inventions. It is important to know that same-sex relations have existed everywhere. This novel I just finished reading, set in Equatorial Guinea, is an important reminder. Read this intvu w/author 🏳️‍🌈 21h
India's sodomy ban, now ruled illegal, was a British colonial legacy
The Conversation 22h 1 tweets
Before colonialism, India embraced homosexuality and gender fluidity. The Supreme Court's repeal of a 157-year-old gay sex ban partially reclaims that history, but LGBTQ Indians still face hurdles.
Mona Eltahawy To clarify origins of homophobia imposed by colonial-era laws in #India and elsewhere, included this in my new book: “India’s fluid gender and sexual norms did not fit into Britain’s strict Victorian conceptions of appropriate sexual behavior,” Amy Bhatt 22h
Section 377 Lawyers Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju Come Out as a Couple
News18.com 31h 1 tweets
Guruswamy and Katju earned international acclaim after the historic SC judgement in 2018 when they convinced the very court that had rejected their pleas in 2013 to decriminalise Section 377.
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Mona Eltahawy Two lawyers who successfully fought to end #India’s colonial-era laws that criminalized same-sex relations have come out as a couple. Sending love and solidarity to and h/t #LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈🌈 31h
'Exemplary' medical student who raped unconscious woman caved to temptation, lawyer argues | CBC News
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A former medical student who raped an unconscious woman "availed himself of an opportunity" he could not resist due to the stress of "leading an exemplary life," his lawyer has argued.
Mona Eltahawy We need a spread sheet with all the excuses men get for raping women: Former med student who raped unconscious woman "availed himself of an opportunity" he couldn’t resist due to the stress of "leading an exemplary life," his lawyer argued h/t 47h
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Read My World 2017 BLACK USA
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12, 13 & 14 oktober Amsterdam
A Prosperous China Says ‘Men Preferred,’ and Women Lose
Amy Qin - Nytimes.com 5d 7 tweets
Gender is now one of the most important factors behind income inequality in China, where workplace discrimination and court rulings have set women back.
Pence, Brown Men, and the Racist Protection of White Women
Mona Eltahawy - Medium 4d 17 tweets
Fearmongering has been a continuing message of this administration
Mona Eltahawy When Pence became the highest-ranking Trump official to visit a migrant concentration camp,caged brown men shouted “No shower, no shower” & guards wore face masks against the stench. All I could think of were the lengths sought after to protect white women 4d
Mona Eltahawy In 2015, during his presidential announcement speech, Trump said Mexicans “bring drugs...crime. They’re rapists.” In my new column for I connect that to Pence’s visit to a migrant concentration camp. Brown men in cages= protecting white women 4d
Mona Eltahawy Ultimately: white supremacy needs a reckoning w/its narratives & lies. Its determination to demonize men of color in the name of saving white women is a hollow attempt at covering up the savagery of white men themselves. No amount of cages can contain that 4d
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30 libros africanos para 30 días de vacaciones
EL PAÍS 4d 1 tweets
Desde novela, poesía o relato pasando por el ensayo, la filosofía o la ciencia ficción. Hay de todo y para (casi) todos los gustos
Sharp rise in Britons making applications for Irish passports
lisa o'carroll - the Guardian 5d 1 tweets
Number of new applicants from Great Britain up from 6,000 in 2015 to 31,000 in year to June
Eric Garner’s Death Will Not Lead to Federal Charges for N.Y.P.D. Officer
William K. Rashbaum - Nytimes.com 5d 7 tweets
The decision came five years after Mr. Garner’s dying words — “I can’t breathe” — became a rallying cry.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants Ayanna Pressley To Be The Next Triumphant Underdog
Hayley Miller - HuffPost 6d 1 tweets
“Vote her in next, Massachusetts,” the 28-year-old House candidate tweeted about Pressley.
Mona Eltahawy “I’ve been told to wait my turn...I’ve been accused of naked ambition...When the challenges we are confronted with are this big, this deep, and growing, I can’t and I won’t wait my turn,” Ayanna Pressley ipso facto: Trump’s nightmare 6d
Ayanna Pressley Wins The Massachusetts 7th Congressional District Primary
ESSENCE - Essence 6d 1 tweets
Ayanna Pressley defeated10-term Representative Michael Capuano, who conceded to her in Massachusetts' Democratic primary where she was said to be the underdog.
Mona Eltahawy Throughout her campaign, Ayanna Pressley’s slogan was, “The people closest to the pain should be closest to the power, driving and informing the policy making.” ipso facto: Trump’s nightmare 6d
'We need co-conspirators, not allies': how white Americans can fight racism
the Guardian 6d 1 tweets
Some white people may be sitting on the sidelines out of discomfort over making faux pas – but they may need to get over that anxiety to help defeat injustice
When Ida B. Wells Took on Lynching, Threats Forced Her to Leave Memphis
HISTORY 6d 1 tweets
Death threats drove Wells from Memphis, but she was not silenced and would find her home in Chicago.
'At the Dark End of the Street': A New History
HuffPost 6d 1 tweets
Gertrude Perkins is never mentioned in the history books, but she had as much to do with the Rosa Parks bus boycott as anyone on earth.
Mona Eltahawy And if you’re wondering what that white supremacist patriarchy did to women who were not “fragile southern white women” at the same time as they lynched and subjected African-American men to violence in the name of protecting “fragile southern white women” 6d
How Southern white women drove the GOP to Donald Trump
Paul Rosenberg - Salon 20d 3 tweets
Political scientist Angie Maxwell on how the anti-feminist movement and the Baptist church drove the GOP right
Mona Eltahawy In their new book political scientists Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields show how the Southern strategy used gender, religion and race to attract white voters in the southern states of the #USA 6d