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Leil-Zahra Mortada has collected a Facebook photo album of images of women from the Egyptian protests.  I don’t have the time or energy to collect the links, but I have been reading a lot that women are not involved in the protests, that there presence is a sign of the oppressive or misogynistic Egyptian and/or Muslim society.  Mortada shows that women are indeed out in numbers, making their voices heard.  When our media does not report or people in our society fail to see the participation of women in the protests, I think that says more about us than it does about the Egyptians.  Who, then, are the misogynists?

Check out the collection.

At the bottom of the facebook page, there is a link to a photo album of images of women in the Tunisian revolution.

And then there is this video:

Related:

• Where are Egypt’s women? Right here. (Suzanne Merkleson at Foreign Policy)
• Egypt: Why the Kiss Picture Is So Radical (Garance Franke-Ruta at The Atlantic)

[h/t to Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish for the Facebook link and the YouTube video]

For background.

For more on stopping HR3 and for a better understanding of what it would mean for rape victims:

• Jill at Feministe
• Sady Doyle at Tiger Beatdown
• Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon
• Chloe at Feministing

What to do: From Melissa McEwan at Shakesville:

Write your representative and voice your objection to H.R.3.

Get involved in the Twitter campaign and make some noise: #DearJohn.

Tweet Speaker Boehner directly: @johnboehner.

Make noise on your blog, Tumblr, Facebook, etc.

If you know of other resources or ways to speak out, please leave them in comments.  I’d really appreciate it.

This:

It reads: “Women in Tahrir say #Egypt democracy won’t lead to oppression. They note that autocracy hasn’t been so hot for them either.” – posted by Nicholas Kristoff, two time Pulitzer Prize winner, NY Times columnist, feminist, author of Half the Sky.

Yeah, that’s a twitter feed.

There’s nothing really to say except that that is @fuckedup.