Mona Eltahawy Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Mona Eltahawy

Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.                                                --Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays #MayDay https://t.co/mL7pb6Clv0

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I look back at the years behind me as if reassessing a wreckage of sorts. A necessary wreckage. I think of Adrienne Rich's Diving Into the Wreck “I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes. The words are maps. I came to see the damage that was done.” -Adrienne Rich

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Read part of an excerpt of Miriam Toews’ Women Talking via @GrantaMag https://t.co/TRSgK4WmCI

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“I realized that regardless of the tragedy, regardless of the grief, regardless of the monstrous challenge, Some of Us Have Not Died. Some of us did NOT die…And what shall we do, we who did not die?” June Jordan #GriefLiteracy

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A groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression... The Patriarchs is a profoundly hopeful book—one that reveals a diversity to human arrangements that undercuts the old grand narratives and exposes male supremacy as no more than an ever-shifting element in systems of control.

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The title of my essay is adapted from Edwidge Danticat's Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work, which takes part of its title from Albert Camus’ 1957 lecture “Create Dangerously,” his last.

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Karissa Haugeberg is the author of Women Against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century. Read my essay: The White Women Who Destroyed Roe v Wade: The tag team of white Christian women who helped build a theocracy https://t.co/YLB59kmSCq

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Red Clocks by Leni Zumas takes place today, in a very ordinary Oregon town, after a Christian fundamentalist–quite similar to Mike Pence, who Zumas mentioned in interviews about her book–is elected to the U.S. presidency and bans abortion, as his platform promised. https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1529124801067073536

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“We have to find some way to persuade the white liberal to stop being a liberal and become an American Radical,” Lorraine Hansberry, The Black Revolution and the White Backlash forum, 1964. Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry https://t.co/GPDcVKE15f

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Read all bell hooks' books on feminism, absolutely, yes. I'm also a massive fan of her books on writing, such as Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life, in which I highlighted the following: https://t.co/yiGpKGZ6gI