#activism #anger:
“We were brought up to be good girls, to be decent, to be polite, to speak nicely to authority. Women here are not to be heard, they shut up, they don’t speak, they’re to be seen as beautiful,” #Nyanzi told the Globe and Mail in 2017, explaining perfectly the origins of “civility” and why #profanity is a powerful tool to upend that #civility, which is foundational to #patriarchy: https://lithub.com/mona-eltahawy-civility-will-not-overturn-the-patriarchy/ #feminicides #feminisms #respectability

"Profanity is an essential tool in disrupting patriarchy and its rules. It is the verbal equivalent of civil disobedience."

Mona #Eltahawy speaks of Stella #Nyanzi: https://lithub.com/mona-eltahawy-civility-will-not-overturn-the-patriarchy/ #civility