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🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Our opening clip featured the poet June Jordan reciting her powerful piece A Menace to My Enemies. Jordan is a sheroe of this week’s guest, the unstoppable Mona Eltahawy: journalist, feminist firebrand, and global truth-teller whose voice cuts through the noise like no one else.

Mona is the author of Headscarves and Hymens, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls, and her latest, Bloody Hell!: Adventures in Menopause From Around the World. Her work spans continents and revolutions, from the frontlines of Egypt’s Arab Spring to the ongoing fight against patriarchy, white supremacy, and fascism everywhere. She’s here to inspire rebellion, liberation, and the refusal to be silenced.

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Show Notes:

June Jordan reciting her poem “A Menace to My Enemies” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L898_qsfv7M

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0:00.0	I must become a menace to my enemies.
0:03.0	And if I, if I ever let you slide, who should be extirpated from my universe,
0:10.0	who should be cauterized from earth completely,
0:13.0	law and honor jerk-offs of the first the terrorist degree,
0:17.0	then let my body fail my soul in its be deviled leguries and if I if I ever let love go
0:24.7	because the hatred and the whisperings become a phantom dictate I obey in lieu of impulse and
0:32.2	realities the blossoming flaming flamingos of my wild mimosa trees, then let love freeze me out.
0:41.0	I must become, I must become a menace to my enemies.
0:45.7	Our opening clip was the poet June Jordan, reciting her poem, A Menace to My Enemies.
0:52.9	June Jordan is a shiro of the unstoppable Mona Elthahoui,
0:56.9	journalist, feminist, and global truth-teller whose voice cuts through the noise like no one else.
1:02.6	Mona is the author of Headscarves and Hyman's, the seven necessary sins for women and girls,
1:08.2	and her latest, bloody hell, adventures and menopause from around the
1:12.6	world. Her work spans continents and revolutions from the front lines of Egypt's Arab Spring
1:18.3	to the ongoing fight against patriarchy, white supremacy, and fascism everywhere. She's here
1:24.4	to inspire rebellion, liberation, and the refusal to be silenced.
1:29.3	Want to be part of these unfiltered conversations?
1:32.3	Join us at the Gaslit Nation salon every Monday at 4 p.m. Eastern on Zoom.
1:36.9	Meet fellow listeners, trade insights, let off some steam, and help build a living, breathing
1:43.0	archive of resistance. You can sign up at
1:46.2	patreon.com forward slash gaslit. That's patreon.com forward slash gaslit. Discounted annual
1:52.6	memberships are available. And to everyone who already supports the show, thank you. You make
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