Mona Eltahawy Instagram – My new essay: On Vice President Kamala Harris, Rep. Cori Bush, disruption, protest, feminism and genocide.
Genocide is not polite. Genocide interrupts. Genocide is that action for which there must be an equal and opposite reaction.
Feminism must be that equal and opposite reaction to genocide not only because genocide kills women and children and maims and terrorises pregnant women. Feminism is not only about women and children and pregnant women. Feminism is about destroying patriarchy, and what is genocide but patriarchy writ large; toxic masculinity drunk on its power and ability to dominate, to obliterate, to kill, maim, and terrorise women, children, and men.
Feminism is not merely a woman in a position that has never been held by a woman before. Feminism is a woman in a position of power who uses that power to destroy, not uphold, patriarchy.
Genocide interrupts and disrupts: the lives of those ravaged by its barbarism; the delusion that those of us far away can look away as we skim the still lake of our placid day to day.
Asking protesters demanding the U.S. end its support for Israel’s genocide “Do you want Trump?” is the wrong question to ask.
The question is when will the U.S. stop arming, aiding, and abetting Israel’s barbarism?
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https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-feminism-vs-genocide | Posted on 11/Aug/2024 21:38:58
