Repression of Dancers is a Feminist Issue!
Why do I never hear anyone say that the hate and stigma that exists for this dance form, and that dancers, just like other sexual minorities, being the most vulnerable group of people on the planet, all get their treatment from the exact misogyny from which also led to the overturning of reproductive rights in the States? The Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt is just the same repackaged peace of fecal matter as we see in the fundamentalism of the Republican conservatives of America. Repression of public entertainers in Egypt only hurts its people and the rich culture it originated from. Most dancers in this tradition are women or female -presenting and as women are protected under law so we should view these events through feminist lenses and that these are quite clearly feminist issues just as they would have been regarded had they occurred somewhere in Europe or North America. The Egyptian police are arresting the belly dancers under the false pretext of “dancing without an underwear,” t
