Mona Eltahawy Instagram – The second season of one of my favourite TV shows ever is here! We Are Lady Parts!
Here’s an essay i wrote after the first season: (link stories and at FEMINIST GIANT)
Too Loud, Swears Too Much, Goes Too Far—
The Emancipatory Power of We Are Lady Parts
When you’re a Muslim woman, you can’t fucking win. Every Muslim woman has an arsenal of you-can’t-fucking-win stories.
And how lucky we are that Nida Manzoor channeled her arsenal into the revolutionary rocket of a show We Are Lady Parts.
Nida Manzoor on why We Are Lady Parts is a comedy:
“I felt that Muslim women…have often been shown in quite a serious light…esp with Muslim women and how they’re portrayed as oppressed and victims…My experience, and my friends’, is that of joy and fun and silliness”
Men—and white people— are thankfully incidental to We Are Lady Parts. They are the supporting cast—eye candy, lovers or husbands, irritants or racists. And what a relief.
Too often, we are not heard above the noise our men and white people make
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