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Essay: Fuck Fascism

1 month ago | feministgiant.com | Mona Eltahawy

Rep. Al Green disrupting Trump’s address to Congress. Win McNamee/ Andrew Harnik/ Getty ImagesAlso read: Why Trump WonAnd: Dear White DemocratsFascism is not polite. Fascism is not civil. Fascism cares little for decorum. When Rep. Al Green disrupted Donald Trump’s address to Congress, he issued a challenge that many lawmakers in that chamber failed. This is not business as usual, Green’s protest declared, as Trump spewed one lie after another.
Essay: If Pete Hegseth Was a Muslim

2 months ago | feministgiant.com | Mona Eltahawy

On his chest, Hegseth has a tattoo of the Jerusalem Cross. “That cross has a long history in Christianity but has lately been co-opted by some far-right groups as a symbol of the fight for Western civilization,” says Reuters. Photo:Instagram/Peter HegsethThis is the latest in a series.
Essay: A Time for Giants

Jan 21, 2025 | feministgiant.com | Mona Eltahawy

Logo: Sheyam GhiethWhen fascism flexes its muscles, supersize your feminism and become a giant. Close your eyes and recall your origin story. Every superhero has an origin story. Often, it is from a time when they almost succumbed to an antagonist, a force of evil, a nemesis who brought them to their knees. And then they snapped. That snap is the sound of the giant within you being born. FEMINIST GIANT is a reader-supported publication.
Essay: You Have Power

Jan 20, 2025 | feministgiant.com | Mona Eltahawy

Image by Dmitri Posudin from PixabayI moved from Egypt to the United States in 2000. With the return to the White House of Donald J. Trump, who calls Egypt’s current authoritarian-in-charge Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi “my favourite dictator,” it feels like I’ve spent the past quarter of a century watching the United States turn into Egypt.
Daily Dose: 61

Jan 11, 2025 | feministgiant.com | Mona Eltahawy

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Daily Dose: 60

Jan 9, 2025 | feministgiant.com | Mona Eltahawy

Logo: Sheyam GhiethWe must rewrite what ambition means and what its aspirations are. We must wrestle ambition free of having a corner office, becoming a CEO, accumulating millions and billions of whatever currency. Our wealth lies in our freedom from patriarchy, not being chained to its capitalist oppression. We must find ways to talk about ambition that fan the flames of subversion not fuel submission to patriarchy and its oppressions.
Daily Dose: 29

Dec 9, 2024 | feministgiant.com | Mona Eltahawy

Logo: Sheyam GhiethFor women, there have always been two revolutions to undertake: one fought with men against regimes that oppress everyone; and a second against misogyny.
Daily Dose: 9

Nov 19, 2024 | feministgiant.com | Mona Eltahawy

Logo Sheyam GhiethProfanity is an essential tool in disrupting patriarchy and its rules. It is the verbal equivalence of civil disobedience. Civility, decorum, manners, and the like are used to uphold authority—patriarchy, whiteness, other forms of privilege. We are urged to acquiesce as a form of maintaining that authority. Whether we are urged to be civil to racists or polite to patriarchy, the goal is the same: to maintain the power of the racist, to maintain the power or patriarchy.
Daily Dose: 5

Nov 15, 2024 | feministgiant.com | Mona Eltahawy

Logo: Sheyam GhiethI don’t want to be protected. I just want patriarchy to stop protecting and enabling men. I don’t want to be protected. I want to be free. Thanks for reading FEMINIST GIANT! This post is public so feel free to share it. Share
The Wonder Chronicles: 24

Oct 16, 2024 | feministgiant.com | Mona Eltahawy

Mona (10) and her brother (6) in one of the few pictures of their childhood in which he is smiling, kind of…This is part of a running series. Read the previous Wonder Chronicle: On NFLM“Oi, you’re on speaker phone, just so you know.”“Yeah, you too.”“How come?”“My elbows hurt from holding the phone, fam.”“Haha! Same.”My brother just turned 53 and I am 57.