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Lina Mounzer

Lina Mounzer is a writer and translator living in Beirut. Her essays and fiction have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Literary Hub, Bidoun, and Rusted Radishes, as well as in the anthologies Hikayat: An Anthology of Lebanese Women’s Writing (Telegram Books: 2007) and Tales of Two Planets (Penguin Books: 2020), a collection of writing on climate change and inequality.

A woman of color tries to grab a microphone as scissors cut all around her.

Going Beyond the Veil

When I was growing up, my mother taught me about sex and sexual politics in two different ways. The biological mechanics she imparted via books that were all in English, assuring me that these meticulously labeled cross-sections of the male and female reproductive organs in fact ...