@weyzazerthiwot: Nawal El Saadawi, although not Ethiopian and I promised to post Ethiopian Feminists, she is my favorite Favorite Feminist whose contribution I believe also speaks to the struggles of Ethiopia Womxn as well. As a young doctor working in rural Egypt, she saw girls who had undergone female genital mutilation. She treated women suffering from psychological trauma rooted in silence, shame, and control. She saw how law, religion, family structure, and state authority intertwined. So she wrote about it. In 1972, Women and Sex was published. It did not speak in metaphors. She publicly opposed FGM including writing about her own experience. (In Egypt at the time, this was considered taboo and politically explosive. Some critics accused her of "airing dirty laundry" internationally.) Her book also critiqued sexual double standards. It questioned the political use of religion. It connected patriarchy to authoritarian power. The book was banned. She lost her government position. Nearly a decade later, in 1981, she was arrested during President Anwar Sadat's mass detention of political opponents. In prison, she wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison on scraps of toilet paper with an eyebrow pencil. The act itself was defiance. Nawal El Saadawi was not a quiet reformer. She was confrontational. She was polarising. She challenged religious authorities, state structures, and Western narratives at the same time. She criticised patriarchy, but also capitalism and colonial legacies. Her work was banned at different moments. She faced lawsuits and death threats. She spent years in exile. She returned. She continued speaking. You do not have to agree with every line she wrote to recognise what she did. She refused to separate feminism from politics. She refused to treat women's suffering as cultural trivia. She insisted it was structural. And that insistence is why her name still carries weight. Happy Woman History Month Sister @ቢጢቆ🤎🥀 @purple crystal lady @ነውር ንቃ @🦋 ሊሊያና 🦋 @Darth Vedar #womenhistorymonth #🇪🇹ፌሚኒስት #nawalelsaadawi

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