“It’s about more than police brutality. It’s about the systems of oppression that will not leave us to be free, that we must rise up against in order to be free. This is the widest, largest, most incredible protest movement in US history and I absolutely think of it as a revolution.”

For Mona Eltahawy, one of the biggest lessons she learned from her activism in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution is that the patriarchal system is at the root of all oppression. In episode 069 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul and Mona examine how patriarchal oppression permeates all of society--from the state capitol to the streets and in our homes--and the importance of using our voice to speak out against injustice.

Mona Eltahawy is a feminist author, commentator and disruptor of patriarchy. Her first book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (2105) 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.

Her commentary has appeared in media around the world and she makes video essays as FEMINIST GIANT.

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