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The hill I will die on: Bum gun, bidet or shattaf – whatever you call it, install one now

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By Mona Eltahawy
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The first time I heard a bidet mentioned in the US – or at least what it’s used for – was at the start of an off-Broadway play I saw in 2015 called Threesome. An Egyptian-American couple are in bed waiting for a white man they’ve invited to join them for the tryst of the title. He bounds on to the stage after using the bathroom, and the couple yell at him, “Go back and wash your ass!” Like that couple, and Threesome’s playwright, Yussef El Guindi, I’m Egyptian.
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I’ve been a New Yorker for 23 years. Today Zohran Mamdani’s swearing-in makes this city a real home

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By Mona Eltahawy
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Zohran Mamdani during the New York City mayoral campaignin June 2025. Photograph: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images On a cold Saturday morning, a little over a week before the New York City mayoral election in November, I was at a park in Queens to speak at a fundraiser for Asiyah Women’s Centre, the oldest and largest shelter providing support for American Muslim female victims of domestic violence.
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Childfree by Choice - Guernica

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By Mona Eltahawy, multiplicity. Born, Peruvian parents, Capron celebrates connection
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Maria A. Guzmán Capron Maria A. Guzmán Capron creates exuberant fabric-based sculptures that embody hybridity and multiplicity. Born and raised in Milan to Colombian and Peruvian parents, Maria moved to Colombia and then Texas as a teenager. She weaves together textiles–found in markets or hand-dyed, hand-painted and silkscreened, then sewn, stuffed, and quilted–to form figures in a mélange of faces and limbs with ambiguous boundaries.
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