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Friends,
On my favorite episode of AEWCH so far, I speak with feminist author and radical, Mona Eltahawy. Mona is the author of Headscarves and Hymens: Why The Middle East Needs A Sexual Revolution, a book which has shaken the Arab world, feminist discourse, and also, on a personal note, has changed my inner life. Mona articulates what patriarchy is — and why it is our urgent task to resist it — better than anyone I’ve ever read or spoken to. Even if you have some resistance to the term (*ahem* hello, bros), Mona will help you see why this framing is so important. .
Mona and I talk about:
- our sexual assaults and how we recovered and transmuted them into action
- what patriarchy is, exactly, and how it enables and protects power
- why enthusiastic consent is a problem (and how our consent is violated every day)
- the urgent and political task of pleasure
- why masculinity is a desire and the Brett Kavanaugh meltdown, where white male rage comes from
- the way white people (particularly white women) pathologize Muslims (particularly Muslim women) without confronting their own issues
- what we can learn about consent from porn performers
- why sex isn’t and is special and why a sexual revolution is so important
- the “trifecta of patriarchy and misogyny”
- why we need to reject monogamy as a default relationship structure
- why we don’t have to say “everything is political” to fight bullshit
- how patriarchy hurts men too
I am so excited and proud to share this episode with you.
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Conner Habib 
Agreed, one of the best and my favourite of your shows so far, thank you.
This was a phenomenal show! I’d love to hear a joint show with Mona and Dr. Kim Tallbear. An event on decolonizing sexualities and anti-Oedipal relations could also be fantastic.