Every time I hear of a cisgender heterosexual man who murdered women because he couldn’t find a romantic or sexual partner, I think of my youth and the number of men my unpartnered self could’ve killed. And every time we hear the excuses that patriarchy and its enforcers make for the violence on behalf of those murderous men’s dicks, it tells us everything we need to know about the difference between the kind of violence we are told to take seriously, and the kind we are told to consider as no more than the unavoidable cost of admission to living in a patriarchal world. The police in Australia have ruled out terrorism as the motive for a rampage by a man who stabbed six people to death at a crowded shopping mall in Sydney on Saturday. The police are wrong. The motive was terrorism. Patriarchy is the ideology. Misogyny is its political expression that is used to recruit and incite violence against women. Cisgender men are the terrorists. Read my new essay via link in bio and stories https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-femicide-the-approved-terrorism
Every time I hear of a cisgender heterosexual man who murdered women because he couldn’t find a romantic or sexual partner, I think of my youth and the number of men my unpartnered self could’ve killed. And every time we hear the excuses that patriarchy and its enforcers make for the violence on behalf of those murderous men’s dicks, it tells us everything we need to know about the difference between the kind of violence we are told to take seriously, and the kind we are told to consider as no more than the unavoidable cost of admission to living in a patriarchal world. The police in Australia have ruled out terrorism as the motive for a rampage by a man who stabbed six people to death at a crowded shopping mall in Sydney on Saturday. The police are wrong. The motive was terrorism. Patriarchy is the ideology. Misogyny is its political expression that is used to recruit and incite violence against women. Cisgender men are the terrorists. Read my new essay via link in bio and stories https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-femicide-the-approved-terrorism
Every time I hear of a cisgender heterosexual man who murdered women because he couldn’t find a romantic or sexual partner, I think of my youth and the number of men my unpartnered self could’ve killed. And every time we hear the excuses that patriarchy and its enforcers make for the violence on behalf of those murderous men’s dicks, it tells us everything we need to know about the difference between the kind of violence we are told to take seriously, and the kind we are told to consider as no more than the unavoidable cost of admission to living in a patriarchal world. The police in Australia have ruled out terrorism as the motive for a rampage by a man who stabbed six people to death at a crowded shopping mall in Sydney on Saturday. The police are wrong. The motive was terrorism. Patriarchy is the ideology. Misogyny is its political expression that is used to recruit and incite violence against women. Cisgender men are the terrorists. Read my new essay via link in bio and stories https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-femicide-the-approved-terrorism
Every time I hear of a cisgender heterosexual man who murdered women because he couldn’t find a romantic or sexual partner, I think of my youth and the number of men my unpartnered self could’ve killed. And every time we hear the excuses that patriarchy and its enforcers make for the violence on behalf of those murderous men’s dicks, it tells us everything we need to know about the difference between the kind of violence we are told to take seriously, and the kind we are told to consider as no more than the unavoidable cost of admission to living in a patriarchal world. The police in Australia have ruled out terrorism as the motive for a rampage by a man who stabbed six people to death at a crowded shopping mall in Sydney on Saturday. The police are wrong. The motive was terrorism. Patriarchy is the ideology. Misogyny is its political expression that is used to recruit and incite violence against women. Cisgender men are the terrorists. Read my new essay via link in bio and stories https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-femicide-the-approved-terrorism
Every time I hear of a cisgender heterosexual man who murdered women because he couldn’t find a romantic or sexual partner, I think of my youth and the number of men my unpartnered self could’ve killed. And every time we hear the excuses that patriarchy and its enforcers make for the violence on behalf of those murderous men’s dicks, it tells us everything we need to know about the difference between the kind of violence we are told to take seriously, and the kind we are told to consider as no more than the unavoidable cost of admission to living in a patriarchal world. The police in Australia have ruled out terrorism as the motive for a rampage by a man who stabbed six people to death at a crowded shopping mall in Sydney on Saturday. The police are wrong. The motive was terrorism. Patriarchy is the ideology. Misogyny is its political expression that is used to recruit and incite violence against women. Cisgender men are the terrorists. Read my new essay via link in bio and stories https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-femicide-the-approved-terrorism
Eyes still on Gaza. The genocide that Israel is committing there will haunt us all. Gaza will haunt us all, demanding “Where were you?” decades from now. Understand this: ending the genocide in Gaza is for the sake of our collective humanity. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has made clear how unfree we are. While millions have marched and protested to demand Israel stop, elected officials refuse to stop Israel. Joe Biden can with one phone call end the genocide. Instead he arms & defends Israel. Just as too many (read: white people in the U.S. and their elected leaders) refused to see the fascism that Trump heralded, because for them fascism was something that happened in 1945, too many refuse to see genocide too, thinking it began and ended with the Holocaust. And the common factor in their kinship to victims of fascism and genocide is that they look or sound like them. I am not Palestinian. Just as I am not Rwandan, Just as I am not Bosnian. I am human. And genocide diminishes us all. Genocide dehumanizes us. All. In 2017, I went to Rwanda for genocide commemoration along with a France-based anti-racist group which took a group of us to pay respects at sites where French troops aided & abetted the slaughter they knew was happening. France enabled the genocide. There will be future visits to commemorate and pay respect in Gaza for the genocide there that Israel is comitting and which the U.S. is arming and enabling with 2,000lb bombs aimed at destroying and exterminating Palestinians. As we commemorate that genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda 30 years ago, let us remember what we owed and failed to deliver to the people of that country. It is what our political leaders owe and have failed to deliver to the people of Gaza. We owe it to ourselves to bear witness to how each successive genocide diminishes us. Gaza will haunt us all, demanding “Where were you?” decades from now. Understand this: ending the genocide in Gaza is for the sake of our collective humanity. Link in my bio to my essay
Eyes still on Gaza. The genocide that Israel is committing there will haunt us all. Gaza will haunt us all, demanding “Where were you?” decades from now. Understand this: ending the genocide in Gaza is for the sake of our collective humanity. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has made clear how unfree we are. While millions have marched and protested to demand Israel stop, elected officials refuse to stop Israel. Joe Biden can with one phone call end the genocide. Instead he arms & defends Israel. Just as too many (read: white people in the U.S. and their elected leaders) refused to see the fascism that Trump heralded, because for them fascism was something that happened in 1945, too many refuse to see genocide too, thinking it began and ended with the Holocaust. And the common factor in their kinship to victims of fascism and genocide is that they look or sound like them. I am not Palestinian. Just as I am not Rwandan, Just as I am not Bosnian. I am human. And genocide diminishes us all. Genocide dehumanizes us. All. In 2017, I went to Rwanda for genocide commemoration along with a France-based anti-racist group which took a group of us to pay respects at sites where French troops aided & abetted the slaughter they knew was happening. France enabled the genocide. There will be future visits to commemorate and pay respect in Gaza for the genocide there that Israel is comitting and which the U.S. is arming and enabling with 2,000lb bombs aimed at destroying and exterminating Palestinians. As we commemorate that genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda 30 years ago, let us remember what we owed and failed to deliver to the people of that country. It is what our political leaders owe and have failed to deliver to the people of Gaza. We owe it to ourselves to bear witness to how each successive genocide diminishes us. Gaza will haunt us all, demanding “Where were you?” decades from now. Understand this: ending the genocide in Gaza is for the sake of our collective humanity. Link in my bio to my essay
Eyes still on Gaza. The genocide that Israel is committing there will haunt us all. Gaza will haunt us all, demanding “Where were you?” decades from now. Understand this: ending the genocide in Gaza is for the sake of our collective humanity. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has made clear how unfree we are. While millions have marched and protested to demand Israel stop, elected officials refuse to stop Israel. Joe Biden can with one phone call end the genocide. Instead he arms & defends Israel. Just as too many (read: white people in the U.S. and their elected leaders) refused to see the fascism that Trump heralded, because for them fascism was something that happened in 1945, too many refuse to see genocide too, thinking it began and ended with the Holocaust. And the common factor in their kinship to victims of fascism and genocide is that they look or sound like them. I am not Palestinian. Just as I am not Rwandan, Just as I am not Bosnian. I am human. And genocide diminishes us all. Genocide dehumanizes us. All. In 2017, I went to Rwanda for genocide commemoration along with a France-based anti-racist group which took a group of us to pay respects at sites where French troops aided & abetted the slaughter they knew was happening. France enabled the genocide. There will be future visits to commemorate and pay respect in Gaza for the genocide there that Israel is comitting and which the U.S. is arming and enabling with 2,000lb bombs aimed at destroying and exterminating Palestinians. As we commemorate that genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda 30 years ago, let us remember what we owed and failed to deliver to the people of that country. It is what our political leaders owe and have failed to deliver to the people of Gaza. We owe it to ourselves to bear witness to how each successive genocide diminishes us. Gaza will haunt us all, demanding “Where were you?” decades from now. Understand this: ending the genocide in Gaza is for the sake of our collective humanity. Link in my bio to my essay
Eyes still on Gaza. The genocide that Israel is committing there will haunt us all. Gaza will haunt us all, demanding “Where were you?” decades from now. Understand this: ending the genocide in Gaza is for the sake of our collective humanity. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has made clear how unfree we are. While millions have marched and protested to demand Israel stop, elected officials refuse to stop Israel. Joe Biden can with one phone call end the genocide. Instead he arms & defends Israel. Just as too many (read: white people in the U.S. and their elected leaders) refused to see the fascism that Trump heralded, because for them fascism was something that happened in 1945, too many refuse to see genocide too, thinking it began and ended with the Holocaust. And the common factor in their kinship to victims of fascism and genocide is that they look or sound like them. I am not Palestinian. Just as I am not Rwandan, Just as I am not Bosnian. I am human. And genocide diminishes us all. Genocide dehumanizes us. All. In 2017, I went to Rwanda for genocide commemoration along with a France-based anti-racist group which took a group of us to pay respects at sites where French troops aided & abetted the slaughter they knew was happening. France enabled the genocide. There will be future visits to commemorate and pay respect in Gaza for the genocide there that Israel is comitting and which the U.S. is arming and enabling with 2,000lb bombs aimed at destroying and exterminating Palestinians. As we commemorate that genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda 30 years ago, let us remember what we owed and failed to deliver to the people of that country. It is what our political leaders owe and have failed to deliver to the people of Gaza. We owe it to ourselves to bear witness to how each successive genocide diminishes us. Gaza will haunt us all, demanding “Where were you?” decades from now. Understand this: ending the genocide in Gaza is for the sake of our collective humanity. Link in my bio to my essay
Eyes still on Gaza. The genocide that Israel is committing there will haunt us all. Gaza will haunt us all, demanding “Where were you?” decades from now. Understand this: ending the genocide in Gaza is for the sake of our collective humanity. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has made clear how unfree we are. While millions have marched and protested to demand Israel stop, elected officials refuse to stop Israel. Joe Biden can with one phone call end the genocide. Instead he arms & defends Israel. Just as too many (read: white people in the U.S. and their elected leaders) refused to see the fascism that Trump heralded, because for them fascism was something that happened in 1945, too many refuse to see genocide too, thinking it began and ended with the Holocaust. And the common factor in their kinship to victims of fascism and genocide is that they look or sound like them. I am not Palestinian. Just as I am not Rwandan, Just as I am not Bosnian. I am human. And genocide diminishes us all. Genocide dehumanizes us. All. In 2017, I went to Rwanda for genocide commemoration along with a France-based anti-racist group which took a group of us to pay respects at sites where French troops aided & abetted the slaughter they knew was happening. France enabled the genocide. There will be future visits to commemorate and pay respect in Gaza for the genocide there that Israel is comitting and which the U.S. is arming and enabling with 2,000lb bombs aimed at destroying and exterminating Palestinians. As we commemorate that genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda 30 years ago, let us remember what we owed and failed to deliver to the people of that country. It is what our political leaders owe and have failed to deliver to the people of Gaza. We owe it to ourselves to bear witness to how each successive genocide diminishes us. Gaza will haunt us all, demanding “Where were you?” decades from now. Understand this: ending the genocide in Gaza is for the sake of our collective humanity. Link in my bio to my essay
Eyes still on Gaza. The genocide that Israel is committing there will haunt us all. Gaza will haunt us all, demanding “Where were you?” decades from now. Understand this: ending the genocide in Gaza is for the sake of our collective humanity. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has made clear how unfree we are. While millions have marched and protested to demand Israel stop, elected officials refuse to stop Israel. Joe Biden can with one phone call end the genocide. Instead he arms & defends Israel. Just as too many (read: white people in the U.S. and their elected leaders) refused to see the fascism that Trump heralded, because for them fascism was something that happened in 1945, too many refuse to see genocide too, thinking it began and ended with the Holocaust. And the common factor in their kinship to victims of fascism and genocide is that they look or sound like them. I am not Palestinian. Just as I am not Rwandan, Just as I am not Bosnian. I am human. And genocide diminishes us all. Genocide dehumanizes us. All. In 2017, I went to Rwanda for genocide commemoration along with a France-based anti-racist group which took a group of us to pay respects at sites where French troops aided & abetted the slaughter they knew was happening. France enabled the genocide. There will be future visits to commemorate and pay respect in Gaza for the genocide there that Israel is comitting and which the U.S. is arming and enabling with 2,000lb bombs aimed at destroying and exterminating Palestinians. As we commemorate that genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda 30 years ago, let us remember what we owed and failed to deliver to the people of that country. It is what our political leaders owe and have failed to deliver to the people of Gaza. We owe it to ourselves to bear witness to how each successive genocide diminishes us. Gaza will haunt us all, demanding “Where were you?” decades from now. Understand this: ending the genocide in Gaza is for the sake of our collective humanity. Link in my bio to my essay
Eyes still on Gaza. The genocide that Israel is committing there will haunt us all. Gaza will haunt us all, demanding “Where were you?” decades from now. Understand this: ending the genocide in Gaza is for the sake of our collective humanity. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has made clear how unfree we are. While millions have marched and protested to demand Israel stop, elected officials refuse to stop Israel. Joe Biden can with one phone call end the genocide. Instead he arms & defends Israel. Just as too many (read: white people in the U.S. and their elected leaders) refused to see the fascism that Trump heralded, because for them fascism was something that happened in 1945, too many refuse to see genocide too, thinking it began and ended with the Holocaust. And the common factor in their kinship to victims of fascism and genocide is that they look or sound like them. I am not Palestinian. Just as I am not Rwandan, Just as I am not Bosnian. I am human. And genocide diminishes us all. Genocide dehumanizes us. All. In 2017, I went to Rwanda for genocide commemoration along with a France-based anti-racist group which took a group of us to pay respects at sites where French troops aided & abetted the slaughter they knew was happening. France enabled the genocide. There will be future visits to commemorate and pay respect in Gaza for the genocide there that Israel is comitting and which the U.S. is arming and enabling with 2,000lb bombs aimed at destroying and exterminating Palestinians. As we commemorate that genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda 30 years ago, let us remember what we owed and failed to deliver to the people of that country. It is what our political leaders owe and have failed to deliver to the people of Gaza. We owe it to ourselves to bear witness to how each successive genocide diminishes us. Gaza will haunt us all, demanding “Where were you?” decades from now. Understand this: ending the genocide in Gaza is for the sake of our collective humanity. Link in my bio to my essay
Eyes still on Gaza. The genocide that Israel is committing there will haunt us all. Gaza will haunt us all, demanding “Where were you?” decades from now. Understand this: ending the genocide in Gaza is for the sake of our collective humanity. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has made clear how unfree we are. While millions have marched and protested to demand Israel stop, elected officials refuse to stop Israel. Joe Biden can with one phone call end the genocide. Instead he arms & defends Israel. Just as too many (read: white people in the U.S. and their elected leaders) refused to see the fascism that Trump heralded, because for them fascism was something that happened in 1945, too many refuse to see genocide too, thinking it began and ended with the Holocaust. And the common factor in their kinship to victims of fascism and genocide is that they look or sound like them. I am not Palestinian. Just as I am not Rwandan, Just as I am not Bosnian. I am human. And genocide diminishes us all. Genocide dehumanizes us. All. In 2017, I went to Rwanda for genocide commemoration along with a France-based anti-racist group which took a group of us to pay respects at sites where French troops aided & abetted the slaughter they knew was happening. France enabled the genocide. There will be future visits to commemorate and pay respect in Gaza for the genocide there that Israel is comitting and which the U.S. is arming and enabling with 2,000lb bombs aimed at destroying and exterminating Palestinians. As we commemorate that genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda 30 years ago, let us remember what we owed and failed to deliver to the people of that country. It is what our political leaders owe and have failed to deliver to the people of Gaza. We owe it to ourselves to bear witness to how each successive genocide diminishes us. Gaza will haunt us all, demanding “Where were you?” decades from now. Understand this: ending the genocide in Gaza is for the sake of our collective humanity. Link in my bio to my essay
Eyes still on Gaza. The genocide that Israel is committing there will haunt us all. Gaza will haunt us all, demanding “Where were you?” decades from now. Understand this: ending the genocide in Gaza is for the sake of our collective humanity. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has made clear how unfree we are. While millions have marched and protested to demand Israel stop, elected officials refuse to stop Israel. Joe Biden can with one phone call end the genocide. Instead he arms & defends Israel. Just as too many (read: white people in the U.S. and their elected leaders) refused to see the fascism that Trump heralded, because for them fascism was something that happened in 1945, too many refuse to see genocide too, thinking it began and ended with the Holocaust. And the common factor in their kinship to victims of fascism and genocide is that they look or sound like them. I am not Palestinian. Just as I am not Rwandan, Just as I am not Bosnian. I am human. And genocide diminishes us all. Genocide dehumanizes us. All. In 2017, I went to Rwanda for genocide commemoration along with a France-based anti-racist group which took a group of us to pay respects at sites where French troops aided & abetted the slaughter they knew was happening. France enabled the genocide. There will be future visits to commemorate and pay respect in Gaza for the genocide there that Israel is comitting and which the U.S. is arming and enabling with 2,000lb bombs aimed at destroying and exterminating Palestinians. As we commemorate that genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda 30 years ago, let us remember what we owed and failed to deliver to the people of that country. It is what our political leaders owe and have failed to deliver to the people of Gaza. We owe it to ourselves to bear witness to how each successive genocide diminishes us. Gaza will haunt us all, demanding “Where were you?” decades from now. Understand this: ending the genocide in Gaza is for the sake of our collective humanity. Link in my bio to my essay
Wherever you are this Eid, I hope you are with your people—people who hold you and know you and appreciate the wonder of you. When I was a little girl in Egypt, I loved wearing my new Eid clothes. This isn’t a new dress but I do love it. And I love to dance. Wherever you are, I hope this Eid brings love and joy at a time when we need more of both. 🎥 @rerutled
The eclipse and Eid and putting on a dress that I’ve only worn once before for a wedding have all made me think of little girl Mona in Egypt. Something about a restart and the renewal it offers—Spring and the flowers on that dress! I’ve shared my struggles, here and in my essays. I’m keen too to say “Here is some joy.” Sometimes it’s from flowers on a dress; sometimes it’s from cheering and clapping for a mesmerizing dance that the moon and the sun allowed us to witness. Sometimes, it’s from being in this moment—right here, right now. A blessed Eid. Love and solidarity 💜✊🏽❤️ 📷 @rerutled
The eclipse and Eid and putting on a dress that I’ve only worn once before for a wedding have all made me think of little girl Mona in Egypt. Something about a restart and the renewal it offers—Spring and the flowers on that dress! I’ve shared my struggles, here and in my essays. I’m keen too to say “Here is some joy.” Sometimes it’s from flowers on a dress; sometimes it’s from cheering and clapping for a mesmerizing dance that the moon and the sun allowed us to witness. Sometimes, it’s from being in this moment—right here, right now. A blessed Eid. Love and solidarity 💜✊🏽❤️ 📷 @rerutled
The eclipse and Eid and putting on a dress that I’ve only worn once before for a wedding have all made me think of little girl Mona in Egypt. Something about a restart and the renewal it offers—Spring and the flowers on that dress! I’ve shared my struggles, here and in my essays. I’m keen too to say “Here is some joy.” Sometimes it’s from flowers on a dress; sometimes it’s from cheering and clapping for a mesmerizing dance that the moon and the sun allowed us to witness. Sometimes, it’s from being in this moment—right here, right now. A blessed Eid. Love and solidarity 💜✊🏽❤️ 📷 @rerutled
The eclipse and Eid and putting on a dress that I’ve only worn once before for a wedding have all made me think of little girl Mona in Egypt. Something about a restart and the renewal it offers—Spring and the flowers on that dress! I’ve shared my struggles, here and in my essays. I’m keen too to say “Here is some joy.” Sometimes it’s from flowers on a dress; sometimes it’s from cheering and clapping for a mesmerizing dance that the moon and the sun allowed us to witness. Sometimes, it’s from being in this moment—right here, right now. A blessed Eid. Love and solidarity 💜✊🏽❤️ 📷 @rerutled
The eclipse and Eid and putting on a dress that I’ve only worn once before for a wedding have all made me think of little girl Mona in Egypt. Something about a restart and the renewal it offers—Spring and the flowers on that dress! I’ve shared my struggles, here and in my essays. I’m keen too to say “Here is some joy.” Sometimes it’s from flowers on a dress; sometimes it’s from cheering and clapping for a mesmerizing dance that the moon and the sun allowed us to witness. Sometimes, it’s from being in this moment—right here, right now. A blessed Eid. Love and solidarity 💜✊🏽❤️ 📷 @rerutled
“I was trying to find my voice, talking to myself through my art,” Faith Ringgold, self portrait. Rest in power and eternal beauty, Faith Ringgold:
I am not a nudist by lifestyle. But for political reasons, I will try most anything. And sometimes, that’s how wonder finds you–when you’re on the doorstep of trying most anything, which in my case meant knocking on the door of an apartment where I would join my first clothing optional party in Cairo, Egypt, in December 2013. For part 2 of The Wonder Chronicles, I delight in the naked body. Read the latest in my new series for FEMINIST GIANT: I was so enthralled by the ecplipse, I want to hold onto to those few moments of losing myself to the wonder of it all. It was like a delightful reset to my mind. And I want to find more reasons to live with intensity. And so here are the Wonder Chronicles—a new series to leave you feeling wonder full. My goal: that you are found by wonder. My wish: that you intensely live. Here’s the link and it’s also in bio https://www.feministgiant.com/p/the-wonder-chronicles-52b
I am not a nudist by lifestyle. But for political reasons, I will try most anything. And sometimes, that’s how wonder finds you–when you’re on the doorstep of trying most anything, which in my case meant knocking on the door of an apartment where I would join my first clothing optional party in Cairo, Egypt, in December 2013. For part 2 of The Wonder Chronicles, I delight in the naked body. Read the latest in my new series for FEMINIST GIANT: I was so enthralled by the ecplipse, I want to hold onto to those few moments of losing myself to the wonder of it all. It was like a delightful reset to my mind. And I want to find more reasons to live with intensity. And so here are the Wonder Chronicles—a new series to leave you feeling wonder full. My goal: that you are found by wonder. My wish: that you intensely live. Here’s the link and it’s also in bio https://www.feministgiant.com/p/the-wonder-chronicles-52b
I am not a nudist by lifestyle. But for political reasons, I will try most anything. And sometimes, that’s how wonder finds you–when you’re on the doorstep of trying most anything, which in my case meant knocking on the door of an apartment where I would join my first clothing optional party in Cairo, Egypt, in December 2013. For part 2 of The Wonder Chronicles, I delight in the naked body. Read the latest in my new series for FEMINIST GIANT: I was so enthralled by the ecplipse, I want to hold onto to those few moments of losing myself to the wonder of it all. It was like a delightful reset to my mind. And I want to find more reasons to live with intensity. And so here are the Wonder Chronicles—a new series to leave you feeling wonder full. My goal: that you are found by wonder. My wish: that you intensely live. Here’s the link and it’s also in bio https://www.feministgiant.com/p/the-wonder-chronicles-52b
