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Anti-abortion centers receive at least $4m from US coronavirus bailout

Jessica Glenza - the Guardian 1h 1 tweets

Payouts of forgivable federal loans to crisis pregnancy centers may total up to $10m while Planned Parenthood was made to return $60m

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Mona Eltahawy Statues of ancient #Egyptian goddesses Hathor and Sekhmet and the god Ptah and of Pharaoh Ramses II discovered near Mit Raineh, about 18 miles south of #Cairo. google.com/amp/s/www.foxn… pic.twitter.com/1UQwGh1SWl 12h

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'Finally, the Feminist Revolution Has Begun': Egypt's #MeToo Moment

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Hundreds of women in Egypt are sharing stories of surviving sexual violence after a widespread campaign prompted the arrest of a prominent sexual predator. “The fact that these girls are speaking out this loudly with this kind of momentum––I’ve...

Mona Eltahawy "Finally, the Feminist Revolution Has Begun": I spoke to @jennaashendouek at @MsMagazine about #Egypt msmagazine.com/2020/08/02/fin… via @msmagazine #بداية_ثورة_نسوية 16h

Mona Eltahawy “By targeting patriarchy we target Sisi, we target the state, we target the street, we target the home—which I call the trifecta of misogyny because all 3 of them together oppress women, all together in their own various ways sexually assault women” #Egypt 8h

Mona Eltahawy I told @MsMagazine that a feminist revolution has finally begun in #Egypt. The backdrop: unprecedented # of women & girls exposing sexual predators while at the same time the State arrests female TikTok influencers for “violating family values.” 24m

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Egypt jails five women influencers over TikTok posts

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CAIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An Egyptian court sentenced five female social media influencers to two years each in prison on Monday after finding them guilty of promoting immorality and human trafficking by encouraging women to make money...

Mona Eltahawy Last week, a #Cairo court sentenced Haneen Hossam, who has 1.2 million followers on #TikTok, to two years in prison and an EGP 300k ($19k) fine for ‘violating family values and principles.’ #بعد_اذن_الاسرة_المصرية #بداية_ثورة_نسوية 17h

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What 'defund the police' could mean for sexual assault survivors

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Reclaimed police funds could be distributed to shelters, rape crisis centers, mental health services and programs to combat sexual violence, experts say.

Mona Eltahawy “The assumption is that policing will stop or prevent sexual violence,” @AfroLez “There is documented evidence that it does not. So why do we rely on the police as the only solution to sexual assault?” #DefundThePolice 19h

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Iturbe, Lola aka Kyra Kyralina aka Kiralina (1902-1990)

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A short biography of the Spanish anarchist Lola Iturbe, fighter for women's liberation

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Róisín Ingle: I’m menstruating as I write this. And I’m mad as all bloody hell

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Why is everything to do with periods still embarrassing, offensive or ‘over-descriptive’?

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Arrested Zimbabwean author, Booker nominee Tsitsi Dangarembga freed

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Zimbabwean top writer and Booker Prize nominee, Tsitsi Dangarembga was freed on bail on Saturday following her arrest during anti-government protests a day earlier. Dangarembga, 61, was charged with incitement to commit violence and breaching...

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Brooklyn Museum: A Woman’s Afterlife: Gender Transformation in Ancient Egypt

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The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum is New York City's second largest in physical size and holds an art collection with roughly 1.5 million works.

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Hatshepsut — Making Queer History

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Throughout the modern era, Hatshepsut, “the King Herself,” has served as a prism through which Egyptologists have reflected their beliefs about sex, gender, and power.

Mona Eltahawy “Much like sexism made her the Lady Macbeth of Egypt in the 20th century, cisheterosexism could very well be preventing modern academics from understanding the full picture of who #Hatshepsut was.” 60h

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Mona Eltahawy “Pharaoh #Hatshepsut pictured shirtless with chiseled pecs.” Statue of Hatshepsut from The Metropolitan Museum of Art || ca. 1479–1458 B.C metmuseum.org/art/collection… pic.twitter.com/0rpB83ys56 3d

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Queer History: Rethinking Hatsheput's Gender — The Blackprint

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BY: NOOR SULLIVAN

Mona Eltahawy I am in a #Hatshepsut research roll and loving it. Queer History: Rethinking #Hatsheput's Gender “The word “woman” didn’t exist, and that matters much more than many of us seem to think it does.” 3d

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Pharaoh Hatshepsut — The Not So Innocents Abroad

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14 ways this powerful Ancient Egyptian woman used genderbending to become a female pharaoh, as revealed in Kara Cooney’s The Woman Who Would Be King .

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Mona Eltahawy There was actually a female king of Egypt before #Hatshepsut. - There wasn’t even a proper word for queen — so Sobeknefru blended masculine and feminine iconography. - Like Sobeknefru before her, Hatshepsut reinvented her image as a nonbinary gender. 3d

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JK Rowling and the Chamber of Trans Youth Misinformation

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JK Rowling tweeted a paper about trans youth that's full of misinformation.

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Revealed: super-rich donate to Cuomo as he rejects tax hikes for billionaires

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Investigation shows governor’s political machine has received money from more than a third of New York’s billionaire families

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CPJ joins letter calling on African Union to secure release of Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono - Committee to Protect Journalists

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The Committee to Protect Journalists today joined eight other press and human rights groups in sending a letter to Cyril Ramaphosa, the chair of the African Union and the president of South Africa, calling on him to use all means available to secure...

Mona Eltahawy Hopewell Chin’ono, an award-winning investigative journalist who recently covered alleged government corruption in the procurement of COVID-19 supplies, was arrested on July 20 and charged with incitement. #Zimbabwe #FreeHopewellNow 3d

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Zimbabwe: Joint statement on arrest of journalist Hopewell Chin’ono

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A group of African writers have penned an open letter to protest at the detention of Zimbabwean Hopewell Chin’ono, a writer and journalist.

Mona Eltahawy I am glad to have joined fellow Africans writers in this open letter to protest at the detention of #Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono Chin’ono. Thank you @AfrolitSansFro1 for the initiative theafricareport.com/35715/zimbabaw… #FreeHopewell 3d

Mona Eltahawy I am glad to have joined fellow African writers in this open letter to protest at the detention of #Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono. Thank you @AfrolitSansFro1 for the initiative #FreeHopewell 3d

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In Zimbabwe, no one can breathe - African Arguments

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Most worryingly for the corrupt and clueless government, even the security forces deployed to crush dissent are suffering. On 20 July, police in Zimbabwe arrested and detained the journalist Hopewell Chin’ono. The prominent investigative reporter...

Mona Eltahawy In #Zimbabwe, many people have been arrested protesting the govt’s #COVID19 response as well as ominous decision to use the lockdown period to push through constitutional amendments that effectively give the president the authority to do as he pleases. 48m

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Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga arrested during protest

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Award-winning Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga was arrested during anti-government protests on Friday, an AFP photographer saw. Dangarembga, 61, was bundled into a police truck while protesting on a road in Harare's upmarket suburb of...

Mona Eltahawy Just days after her latest novel, "This Mournable Body," was longlisted for the Booker Prize, award-winning #Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga was arrested during anti-government protests on Friday. news.yahoo.com/zimbabwean-aut… h/t @FrankieEdozien @mfnmfnmfn 3d

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Zimbabwean Author Tsitsi Dangarembga Arrested During Protest

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Award-winning Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga was arrested during anti-government protests on Friday, an AFP photographer saw.