The Wonder Chronicles: 18
This is part of a running series. Read the previous Wonder Chronicle: On Abortion
A woman’s voice is a declaration: no, yes, whatever the fuck I want
A woman’s voice is trouble: yes, I’m a fucking bitch; what of it?
A woman’s voice is dangerous: let me be clear
A woman’s voice flips the hero narrative: did you really think the Sirens were the dangerous ones and not the male “hero” full of hubris and hunger?
A woman’s voice is a truth serum: oh you think you’re the shit?
A woman’s voice is disturbing: oops, did I say that out loud?
A woman’s voice is a disclaimer: you will be harmed in the production of this movie
A woman’s voice is super: as in superlative
A woman’s voice is fire: as in clearing the forest of your trash
A woman’s voice is water: drowning your din
A woman’s voice is a razor: oops did I cut you down to size?
A woman’s voice is a symphony: me, myself and I
A woman’s voice is fire: don’t tell me I’m repeating myself, I’m speaking
A woman’s voice is a song: stop calling, stop calling, stop calling
A woman’s voice is paprika: salt is not the only spice
A woman’s voice is as soft as a papercut: the sting lasts
A woman’s voice is five-alarm fire: burn, fucker, burn
A woman’s voice is a tornado: I will blow and I will blow and you will crumble
A woman’s voice is too loud: shut up, I’m talking
A woman’s voice is too nasal: smell my indifference, fucker
A woman’s voice is too screechy: oops are your ears burning?
A woman’s voice is too deep: oops is your superficial hurting?
A woman’s voice is sexy: dream on, fucker
A woman’s voice is soothing: turn that wounded ego around and walk away
A woman’s voice is tempting: again with the Sirens fuckery?
A woman’s voice is too demanding: keep up or fuck off
A woman’s voice is threatening: feeling lucky, are you?
A woman’s voice is savage: you can only aspire
A woman’s voice is menacing: feel those fractures in your house of ego
A woman’s voice is an earthquake: I make the earth move
A woman’s voice is minacious: look it up
A woman’s voice is threatening: who’s in charge here?
A woman’s voice is ominous: severe thunderstorm warning
A woman’s voice is portentous: your demise, fucker, is nigh
A woman’s voice is unpropitious: for you, yeah
A woman’s voice is uncompromising: you thought this would be easy?
A woman’s voice is momentous: your demise
A woman’s voice is apogean: I don’t speak your language
A woman’s voice is notorious: is that a crack in your patriarchy?
A woman’s voice is tectonic: feel the earth move, under your feet
A woman’s voice is consequential: as in the end of you
A woman’s voice is speaking
Come closer: A woman’s voice is yelling FUCK THE PATRIARCHY!
Find your voice. Free your voice. Fuck the patriarchy.
My goal: that you are found by wonder.
My wish: that you intensely live.
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Mona Eltahawy is a feminist author, commentator and disruptor of patriarchy. She is editing an anthology on menopause called Bloody Hell! And Other Stories: Adventures in Menopause from Across the Personal and Political Spectrum. Her first book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (2015) targeted patriarchy in the Middle East and North Africa and her second The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls (2019) took her disruption worldwide. It is now available in Ireland and the UK. Her commentary has appeared in media around the world and she makes video essays and writes a newsletter as FEMINIST GIANT.
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