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It's Menopause Awareness Month. For those of us going through perimenopause, that would be every single day for quite a number of years.
What do Nefertiti and Bruce Lee have to do with my perimenopause? I explain! feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime… #MenopauseAwarenessMonth
What do Nefertiti and Bruce Lee have to do with my perimenopause? I explain! feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime… #MenopauseAwarenessMonth
To look honestly at our bodies as we age is to begin to understand what Bruce Lee meant when he said, “Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless — like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup,..Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." #Menopause
Earlier this year, I started posting photographs of myself on social media with the caption “#ThisIs53. It is not my birthday. I want you to see a 53 year old woman.”
I am now 54. I wanted to be seen. Not to be told, as I often have, that I don’t “look my age.” #Menopause
I am now 54. I wanted to be seen. Not to be told, as I often have, that I don’t “look my age.” #Menopause
I channel Killmonger, as problematic as he is, in this essay on #Nefertiti and perimenopause. #ThisIs53 #Egypt
When museums in the West continue to display what their colonizing ancestors stole from us, they magnify a historical theft with their contemporary insistence that they control our narrative. #Egypt #Nefertiti #ThisIs53 #Perimenopause
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In 2007, the Neues Museum, Berlin, refused to return Nefertiti's bust to #Egypt for an exhibition, claiming it was too fragile to be moved. The audacity: asking for permission to display your ancestors’ heritage and being denied it by the descendants of those who robbed you of it
#ThisIs53: it is not my birthday. I want you to see a 53yo woman. I’m saying “Here is a middle aged woman. Look,”at a time when it seems that every time I look away, my body has changed.
Read & share my new essay👉🏽: feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime… #Perimenopause
📷 @rerutled
Read & share my new essay👉🏽: feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime… #Perimenopause
📷 @rerutled
As I navigate #Perimenopause, l’ve been thinking about Nefertiti and Bruce Lee.
When people think of the #Egyptian Queen, they think know that gorgeous bust of hers 👇🏽 feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
When people think of the #Egyptian Queen, they think know that gorgeous bust of hers 👇🏽 feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
But I think of Standing Nefertiti.
My belly nods at her belly, knowingly; in the way that when you’re the only person of colour in a white space you nod knowingly when you see another person of colour. I see a middle aged, cisgender Egyptian woman, like me. And I nod, knowingly
My belly nods at her belly, knowingly; in the way that when you’re the only person of colour in a white space you nod knowingly when you see another person of colour. I see a middle aged, cisgender Egyptian woman, like me. And I nod, knowingly
This is an ode to my 53yo body.
Every week, I post my photo on social media w/ caption “#ThisIs53.
I want to be seen, to say “Here is a middle aged woman. Look,” at a time when it seems that every time I look away, my body has changed. feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
#perimenopause
Every week, I post my photo on social media w/ caption “#ThisIs53.
I want to be seen, to say “Here is a middle aged woman. Look,” at a time when it seems that every time I look away, my body has changed. feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
#perimenopause
A statuette of Nefertiti and a quote by Bruce Lee have become central to my endeavour.
Read my essay and sign up! feministgiant.com
Read my essay and sign up! feministgiant.com
More here #Perimenopause #ThisIs53
Earlier this year, I started posting photographs of myself on social media with the caption “#ThisIs53. It is not my birthday. I want you to see a 53 year old woman.”
feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
I wanted to be seen. Not to be told, as I often have, that I don’t “look my age.” That is not the compliment some people think it is. But to say “Here is a middle aged woman. Look,” at a time when it seems that every time I look away, my body has changed.
This is an ode to my 53-year-old body: breasts, belly, first period in 10 months and all.
Read, share and subscribe: thank you! feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
Read, share and subscribe: thank you! feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
#ThisIs53
It is not my birthday. I post my picture weeklyish on Instagram because I want people to see a woman in her 50s.
📷 @rerutled
It is not my birthday. I post my picture weeklyish on Instagram because I want people to see a woman in her 50s.
📷 @rerutled
It's also my way of appreciating the comfort eyeliner brings me. My morning ritual of choosing a colour and using a brush to paint it around my eyes, makes me feel like a calligrapher, writing a letter of love to myself during these difficult days. feministgiant.com/p/deliberate-b…
Men and women of all social classes were wearing eyeliner in Egypt as early as 6000 BC. And being a writer, I am particularly delighted that the hieroglyphic term for makeup artist derives from the root “sesh,” which translates to write or engrave.
