When fascism throws the kitchen sink as well as the contents of the fridge at you, it can be easy to despair at the sheer chaos of it all. Each one of us has the ability to catch at least one thing: the flying plates, the flying knives, the jars coming at us. Focus on those things that you can catch, neutralise, and block. That is where your feminist muscles come in—your daily practice of defy, disobey, and disrupt. Communally, we are a force! FEMINIST GIANT Daily Dose: 89 https://www.feministgiant.com/p/daily-dose-89
Liberty is not just freedom from the violence of an authoritarian’s brutal military and police force. Poverty too is violence. Racism too is violence. Misogyny too is violence. Homophobia too is violence. Transphobia too is violence. Ageism too is violence. FEMINISM GIANT Daily Dose: 93 https://www.feministgiant.com/p/daily-dose-93
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Love is not the opposite of hate. It is the opposite of indifference. We who demand a better world act out of love, not hate. We risk it all with the obsession of Majnun for Layla. “At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality,” Che Guevara said. Despite his critics, including anarchists such as myself, Che understood that we agitate not because we hate the world, but because we so desperately love it. A revolution is a dare to the future as much as it is a reckoning with the past. It is a message in a bottle flung at our future selves that challenges us to remember. “Your imagination brought you to the streets. Your disobedience kept you there,” the message from the revolution insists. And love is the verb, as Liz Fraser sings in Massive Attack’s Teardrop. “Love is a doing word,” that infuses our breath with a fearlessness that is temptation and salvation at once. “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible,” Toni Cade Bambera said. We who cannot resist revolution, hand over our hearts as fuel, ready to have them smashed again and again, because as Maya Angelou said, “I don’t trust any revolution where love is not allowed.” Read: https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-tender-is-the-fight?r=50le&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Love is not the opposite of hate. It is the opposite of indifference. We who demand a better world act out of love, not hate. We risk it all with the obsession of Majnun for Layla. “At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality,” Che Guevara said. Despite his critics, including anarchists such as myself, Che understood that we agitate not because we hate the world, but because we so desperately love it. A revolution is a dare to the future as much as it is a reckoning with the past. It is a message in a bottle flung at our future selves that challenges us to remember. “Your imagination brought you to the streets. Your disobedience kept you there,” the message from the revolution insists. And love is the verb, as Liz Fraser sings in Massive Attack’s Teardrop. “Love is a doing word,” that infuses our breath with a fearlessness that is temptation and salvation at once. “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible,” Toni Cade Bambera said. We who cannot resist revolution, hand over our hearts as fuel, ready to have them smashed again and again, because as Maya Angelou said, “I don’t trust any revolution where love is not allowed.” Read: https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-tender-is-the-fight?r=50le&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Love is not the opposite of hate. It is the opposite of indifference. We who demand a better world act out of love, not hate. We risk it all with the obsession of Majnun for Layla. “At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality,” Che Guevara said. Despite his critics, including anarchists such as myself, Che understood that we agitate not because we hate the world, but because we so desperately love it. A revolution is a dare to the future as much as it is a reckoning with the past. It is a message in a bottle flung at our future selves that challenges us to remember. “Your imagination brought you to the streets. Your disobedience kept you there,” the message from the revolution insists. And love is the verb, as Liz Fraser sings in Massive Attack’s Teardrop. “Love is a doing word,” that infuses our breath with a fearlessness that is temptation and salvation at once. “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible,” Toni Cade Bambera said. We who cannot resist revolution, hand over our hearts as fuel, ready to have them smashed again and again, because as Maya Angelou said, “I don’t trust any revolution where love is not allowed.” Read: https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-tender-is-the-fight?r=50le&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Love is not the opposite of hate. It is the opposite of indifference. We who demand a better world act out of love, not hate. We risk it all with the obsession of Majnun for Layla. “At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality,” Che Guevara said. Despite his critics, including anarchists such as myself, Che understood that we agitate not because we hate the world, but because we so desperately love it. A revolution is a dare to the future as much as it is a reckoning with the past. It is a message in a bottle flung at our future selves that challenges us to remember. “Your imagination brought you to the streets. Your disobedience kept you there,” the message from the revolution insists. And love is the verb, as Liz Fraser sings in Massive Attack’s Teardrop. “Love is a doing word,” that infuses our breath with a fearlessness that is temptation and salvation at once. “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible,” Toni Cade Bambera said. We who cannot resist revolution, hand over our hearts as fuel, ready to have them smashed again and again, because as Maya Angelou said, “I don’t trust any revolution where love is not allowed.” Read: https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-tender-is-the-fight?r=50le&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Feb. 6 is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) My country of birth Egypt has the greatest number of women and girls who have experienced FGM/C of any country in the world. I vow that I will always fight to ensure that we, not patriarchy, own our bodies. Girls and women are forced to be cultural vectors; our bodies are the medium upon which culture is engraved–FGM/C is one of the earliest violations imprinted on the female body. And yet we are too often barred from authoring that culture that marks us. Every day–not just this one day when we urge the world to remember yet another way that patriarchy hurts us–I will fight to ensure that we claim ownership of our bodies; no longer vectors, but authors of our liberation. And I honour the heroes of our liberation, such as these fellow African activists whose lived experience is vital. It is our right to enjoy sex. We have a right to pleasure. We own our desire and we have a right to express it freely. We must end FGM Read essay: https://www.feministgiant.com/p/endfgm?utm_source=publication-search
Feb. 6 is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) My country of birth Egypt has the greatest number of women and girls who have experienced FGM/C of any country in the world. I vow that I will always fight to ensure that we, not patriarchy, own our bodies. Girls and women are forced to be cultural vectors; our bodies are the medium upon which culture is engraved–FGM/C is one of the earliest violations imprinted on the female body. And yet we are too often barred from authoring that culture that marks us. Every day–not just this one day when we urge the world to remember yet another way that patriarchy hurts us–I will fight to ensure that we claim ownership of our bodies; no longer vectors, but authors of our liberation. And I honour the heroes of our liberation, such as these fellow African activists whose lived experience is vital. It is our right to enjoy sex. We have a right to pleasure. We own our desire and we have a right to express it freely. We must end FGM Read essay: https://www.feministgiant.com/p/endfgm?utm_source=publication-search
Feb. 6 is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) My country of birth Egypt has the greatest number of women and girls who have experienced FGM/C of any country in the world. I vow that I will always fight to ensure that we, not patriarchy, own our bodies. Girls and women are forced to be cultural vectors; our bodies are the medium upon which culture is engraved–FGM/C is one of the earliest violations imprinted on the female body. And yet we are too often barred from authoring that culture that marks us. Every day–not just this one day when we urge the world to remember yet another way that patriarchy hurts us–I will fight to ensure that we claim ownership of our bodies; no longer vectors, but authors of our liberation. And I honour the heroes of our liberation, such as these fellow African activists whose lived experience is vital. It is our right to enjoy sex. We have a right to pleasure. We own our desire and we have a right to express it freely. We must end FGM Read essay: https://www.feministgiant.com/p/endfgm?utm_source=publication-search
Feb. 6 is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) My country of birth Egypt has the greatest number of women and girls who have experienced FGM/C of any country in the world. I vow that I will always fight to ensure that we, not patriarchy, own our bodies. Girls and women are forced to be cultural vectors; our bodies are the medium upon which culture is engraved–FGM/C is one of the earliest violations imprinted on the female body. And yet we are too often barred from authoring that culture that marks us. Every day–not just this one day when we urge the world to remember yet another way that patriarchy hurts us–I will fight to ensure that we claim ownership of our bodies; no longer vectors, but authors of our liberation. And I honour the heroes of our liberation, such as these fellow African activists whose lived experience is vital. It is our right to enjoy sex. We have a right to pleasure. We own our desire and we have a right to express it freely. We must end FGM Read essay: https://www.feministgiant.com/p/endfgm?utm_source=publication-search
Feb. 6 is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) My country of birth Egypt has the greatest number of women and girls who have experienced FGM/C of any country in the world. I vow that I will always fight to ensure that we, not patriarchy, own our bodies. Girls and women are forced to be cultural vectors; our bodies are the medium upon which culture is engraved–FGM/C is one of the earliest violations imprinted on the female body. And yet we are too often barred from authoring that culture that marks us. Every day–not just this one day when we urge the world to remember yet another way that patriarchy hurts us–I will fight to ensure that we claim ownership of our bodies; no longer vectors, but authors of our liberation. And I honour the heroes of our liberation, such as these fellow African activists whose lived experience is vital. It is our right to enjoy sex. We have a right to pleasure. We own our desire and we have a right to express it freely. We must end FGM Read essay: https://www.feministgiant.com/p/endfgm?utm_source=publication-search
Feb. 6 is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) My country of birth Egypt has the greatest number of women and girls who have experienced FGM/C of any country in the world. I vow that I will always fight to ensure that we, not patriarchy, own our bodies. Girls and women are forced to be cultural vectors; our bodies are the medium upon which culture is engraved–FGM/C is one of the earliest violations imprinted on the female body. And yet we are too often barred from authoring that culture that marks us. Every day–not just this one day when we urge the world to remember yet another way that patriarchy hurts us–I will fight to ensure that we claim ownership of our bodies; no longer vectors, but authors of our liberation. And I honour the heroes of our liberation, such as these fellow African activists whose lived experience is vital. It is our right to enjoy sex. We have a right to pleasure. We own our desire and we have a right to express it freely. We must end FGM Read essay: https://www.feministgiant.com/p/endfgm?utm_source=publication-search
Feb. 6 is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) My country of birth Egypt has the greatest number of women and girls who have experienced FGM/C of any country in the world. I vow that I will always fight to ensure that we, not patriarchy, own our bodies. Girls and women are forced to be cultural vectors; our bodies are the medium upon which culture is engraved–FGM/C is one of the earliest violations imprinted on the female body. And yet we are too often barred from authoring that culture that marks us. Every day–not just this one day when we urge the world to remember yet another way that patriarchy hurts us–I will fight to ensure that we claim ownership of our bodies; no longer vectors, but authors of our liberation. And I honour the heroes of our liberation, such as these fellow African activists whose lived experience is vital. It is our right to enjoy sex. We have a right to pleasure. We own our desire and we have a right to express it freely. We must end FGM Read essay: https://www.feministgiant.com/p/endfgm?utm_source=publication-search
Feb. 6 is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) My country of birth Egypt has the greatest number of women and girls who have experienced FGM/C of any country in the world. I vow that I will always fight to ensure that we, not patriarchy, own our bodies. Girls and women are forced to be cultural vectors; our bodies are the medium upon which culture is engraved–FGM/C is one of the earliest violations imprinted on the female body. And yet we are too often barred from authoring that culture that marks us. Every day–not just this one day when we urge the world to remember yet another way that patriarchy hurts us–I will fight to ensure that we claim ownership of our bodies; no longer vectors, but authors of our liberation. And I honour the heroes of our liberation, such as these fellow African activists whose lived experience is vital. It is our right to enjoy sex. We have a right to pleasure. We own our desire and we have a right to express it freely. We must end FGM Read essay: https://www.feministgiant.com/p/endfgm?utm_source=publication-search
Feb. 6 is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) My country of birth Egypt has the greatest number of women and girls who have experienced FGM/C of any country in the world. I vow that I will always fight to ensure that we, not patriarchy, own our bodies. Girls and women are forced to be cultural vectors; our bodies are the medium upon which culture is engraved–FGM/C is one of the earliest violations imprinted on the female body. And yet we are too often barred from authoring that culture that marks us. Every day–not just this one day when we urge the world to remember yet another way that patriarchy hurts us–I will fight to ensure that we claim ownership of our bodies; no longer vectors, but authors of our liberation. And I honour the heroes of our liberation, such as these fellow African activists whose lived experience is vital. It is our right to enjoy sex. We have a right to pleasure. We own our desire and we have a right to express it freely. We must end FGM Read essay: https://www.feministgiant.com/p/endfgm?utm_source=publication-search
Feb. 6 is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) My country of birth Egypt has the greatest number of women and girls who have experienced FGM/C of any country in the world. I vow that I will always fight to ensure that we, not patriarchy, own our bodies. Girls and women are forced to be cultural vectors; our bodies are the medium upon which culture is engraved–FGM/C is one of the earliest violations imprinted on the female body. And yet we are too often barred from authoring that culture that marks us. Every day–not just this one day when we urge the world to remember yet another way that patriarchy hurts us–I will fight to ensure that we claim ownership of our bodies; no longer vectors, but authors of our liberation. And I honour the heroes of our liberation, such as these fellow African activists whose lived experience is vital. It is our right to enjoy sex. We have a right to pleasure. We own our desire and we have a right to express it freely. We must end FGM Read essay: https://www.feministgiant.com/p/endfgm?utm_source=publication-search
Feb. 6 is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) My country of birth Egypt has the greatest number of women and girls who have experienced FGM/C of any country in the world. I vow that I will always fight to ensure that we, not patriarchy, own our bodies. Girls and women are forced to be cultural vectors; our bodies are the medium upon which culture is engraved–FGM/C is one of the earliest violations imprinted on the female body. And yet we are too often barred from authoring that culture that marks us. Every day–not just this one day when we urge the world to remember yet another way that patriarchy hurts us–I will fight to ensure that we claim ownership of our bodies; no longer vectors, but authors of our liberation. And I honour the heroes of our liberation, such as these fellow African activists whose lived experience is vital. It is our right to enjoy sex. We have a right to pleasure. We own our desire and we have a right to express it freely. We must end FGM Read essay: https://www.feministgiant.com/p/endfgm?utm_source=publication-search
Feb. 6 is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) My country of birth Egypt has the greatest number of women and girls who have experienced FGM/C of any country in the world. I vow that I will always fight to ensure that we, not patriarchy, own our bodies. Girls and women are forced to be cultural vectors; our bodies are the medium upon which culture is engraved–FGM/C is one of the earliest violations imprinted on the female body. And yet we are too often barred from authoring that culture that marks us. Every day–not just this one day when we urge the world to remember yet another way that patriarchy hurts us–I will fight to ensure that we claim ownership of our bodies; no longer vectors, but authors of our liberation. And I honour the heroes of our liberation, such as these fellow African activists whose lived experience is vital. It is our right to enjoy sex. We have a right to pleasure. We own our desire and we have a right to express it freely. We must end FGM Read essay: https://www.feministgiant.com/p/endfgm?utm_source=publication-search
Feb. 6 is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) My country of birth Egypt has the greatest number of women and girls who have experienced FGM/C of any country in the world. I vow that I will always fight to ensure that we, not patriarchy, own our bodies. Girls and women are forced to be cultural vectors; our bodies are the medium upon which culture is engraved–FGM/C is one of the earliest violations imprinted on the female body. And yet we are too often barred from authoring that culture that marks us. Every day–not just this one day when we urge the world to remember yet another way that patriarchy hurts us–I will fight to ensure that we claim ownership of our bodies; no longer vectors, but authors of our liberation. And I honour the heroes of our liberation, such as these fellow African activists whose lived experience is vital. It is our right to enjoy sex. We have a right to pleasure. We own our desire and we have a right to express it freely. We must end FGM Read essay: https://www.feministgiant.com/p/endfgm?utm_source=publication-search
Feb. 6 is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) My country of birth Egypt has the greatest number of women and girls who have experienced FGM/C of any country in the world. I vow that I will always fight to ensure that we, not patriarchy, own our bodies. Girls and women are forced to be cultural vectors; our bodies are the medium upon which culture is engraved–FGM/C is one of the earliest violations imprinted on the female body. And yet we are too often barred from authoring that culture that marks us. Every day–not just this one day when we urge the world to remember yet another way that patriarchy hurts us–I will fight to ensure that we claim ownership of our bodies; no longer vectors, but authors of our liberation. And I honour the heroes of our liberation, such as these fellow African activists whose lived experience is vital. It is our right to enjoy sex. We have a right to pleasure. We own our desire and we have a right to express it freely. We must end FGM Read essay: https://www.feministgiant.com/p/endfgm?utm_source=publication-search
Feb. 6 is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) My country of birth Egypt has the greatest number of women and girls who have experienced FGM/C of any country in the world. I vow that I will always fight to ensure that we, not patriarchy, own our bodies. Girls and women are forced to be cultural vectors; our bodies are the medium upon which culture is engraved–FGM/C is one of the earliest violations imprinted on the female body. And yet we are too often barred from authoring that culture that marks us. Every day–not just this one day when we urge the world to remember yet another way that patriarchy hurts us–I will fight to ensure that we claim ownership of our bodies; no longer vectors, but authors of our liberation. And I honour the heroes of our liberation, such as these fellow African activists whose lived experience is vital. It is our right to enjoy sex. We have a right to pleasure. We own our desire and we have a right to express it freely. We must end FGM Read essay: https://www.feministgiant.com/p/endfgm?utm_source=publication-search
To fight, to resist, to insist on our right to be free requires a robust blend of tenacious (not foolish) optimism, a clear-eyed (not rose-tinted) hope, and a recognition that “FUSE” is at the heart of “refuse” and “RAGE” is the fire in the belly of “courage.” FEMINIST GIANT Daily Dose: 91 Subscribe to FEMINIST GIANT and get Daily Doses https://www.feministgiant.com/p/daily-dose-91
