Christmas sermon in Bethlehem "To our European friends. I never ever want to hear you lecture us on human rights and international law again. And I mean this. We are not white I guess. It does not apply to us according to your own logic."

Funny how brown girls & women are told they won’t survive if they move out because they need someone to take care of them - even though they’re the ones who have been cooking, cleaning, taking care of kids & elders and working a job since childhood. What a joke. You’ll be fine.

Brown people will lecture their kids about the dangers of succumbing to peer pressure whilst simultaneously peer pressuring people they know to stay in bad marriages or ‘try for a boy’ Make it make sense.

Since my article in Der Spiegel on Gaza, I’ve received countless messages from Germans. I want to show you this angry email from a professor which is quintessential as it ticks almost all the boxes with the problematic German position. Let’s dissect this🧵

Just two girls packing boxes of sweets that will be distributed to celebrate and announce their girl cousin’s birth. I’m willing to bet this activity will be a core memory for them.

diversifying empire is still empire

Unpopular opinion but if your parents expect you to put up with someone’s shit as a wife or daughter-in-law then they probably also expected you to put up with their shit as a daughter.

Studies show that for many parents 'gender-neutral' often means buying 'boys things' for girls, but rarely the reverse. It's common for boys to be ridiculed for liking 'girly' things whilst 'boy-ish' girls get praise - and it's because men are still seen as the superior sex.

Studies show that for many parents 'gender-neutral' often means buying 'boys things' for girls, but rarely the reverse. Letting our daughters dress like Harry Potter is easier than letting our sons dress like Princess Elsa because men are still seen as the superior sex.

The problem isn’t that we don’t have enough female leaders, it’s that we don’t have enough fair, just, & kind leaders. Anyone can have those qualities - many men do & many women don’t. Stereotyping these qualities as “female traits” is dangerous. Just look at this picture.