I want to be like Nawal el-Saadawi when I grow up. What an inspiration!
“We don’t say Feminists here in Arabic, we say ‘Tahrir al-Mar’ah’ [تحرير المرأة] means the ‘Liberation of Women’ because there’s not one feminism. There are many Feminisms all over the world. There is Capitalist Feminism. There is Socialist Feminism. There are women fighting against class, patriarchy, colonialism, imperialism, and there are women who are fighting for instance to change the family code alone. But our Feminism in Egypt and the Arab world is to change everything and that’s why I mean ‘Radical’: to change the constitution so that it becomes secular and all Egyptians are equal; to change the family code so that men and women are equal in all rights; to change the culture; to change economy so that all Egyptians are equal, there’s no multi-billionaires and 50 percent of Egyptians are under the poverty line. So our Feminism is broader: it is political; it is economic; it is social; it is cultural; it is also against American neo-colonialism; and Israeli invasion of Palestine. So our Feminism is very broad.”
She is adorable. I want to put her in my pocket! Not in an oppressive white male sort of way though, nor in a patronizing “that’s so cute you’re standing up for your rights” sort of way either.
Basically I just think she’s adorable.