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4 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
If you are looking for words to express the centrality of white women to the white supremacist patriarchal enterprise in the United States, FEMINIST GIANT has a few essays for you:

#AmyConeyBarrett: Patriarchy Promotes a Five-Star General feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-the-ju…
Dear 8th Grader: For white girls being groomed to be Footsoldiers of the Patriarchy

feministgiant.substack.com/p/letter-dear-…
On white women too busy feeling superior to Muslim women to see their own recruitment as Footsoldiers of the Patriarchy:

If Amy Coney Barrett was a Muslim feministgiant.substack.com/p/if-amy-coney…
And once we get the final results, I'm sure FEMINIST GIANT will have more to say. So sign up!

Defy, Disobey, Disrupt by @monaeltahawy feministgiant.substack.com/p/coming-soon?…

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6 Nov
My concern if Joe Biden wins the presidency is that the white liberals who spent the Trump era crying  “This isn’t my America” (sidenote: WHAT FUCKING AMERICA HAVE YOU BEEN LIVING IN?) will now celebrate “My America is back!” and go on amnesia overdrive. feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-femini…
Those of us who want liberation, remember.

Democrat or Republican, regardless of who occupies the White House, I fight the crimes of white supremacist patriarchy because the presidents never do.
So while of course I want Trump gone, I know much of what brought him will remain and that much of what brought him is this country and the white supremacist patriarchy that is foundational to it, and not only to the GOP.
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6 Nov
Trump might be losing, and Biden might win,know this: white supremacist patriarchy is the real winner in America. So let me wreck your party and tell you that even if Trump loses,we are still fucked. 

New essay: Feminist Killjoy Here To Wreck Your Parties feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-femini…
If Biden wins the presidency, white liberals who spent the Trump era crying  “This isn’t my America” (sidenote: WHAT FUCKING AMERICA HAVE YOU BEEN LIVING IN?) will now celebrate “My America is back!” and go on amnesia overdrive.
Those of us who want liberation, remember. Democrat or Republican, regardless of who occupies the White House, I fight the crimes of white supremacist patriarchy because the presidents never do.
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5 Nov
The re-election of Susan Collins and Lindsey Graham to the Senate, and this 👇🏽(h/t @rerutled) is a further reminder of what is at stake post #Election2020
- Whose America is this?
- Who is it for? A tweet by Kevin McCarthy the House Minority Leader that say
With a Supreme Court dominated by conservatives, a Senate that looks like it will continue to have a GOP majority and the GOP also making strides in the House - all during after Pres. Grab Them By The Pussy, pandemic, massive unemployment levels, BLM uprising: what the fuck.
An estimated 68 million American voters chose fascism.

That so many Americans voted for Trump is an indictment of America and a reminder the fuckery of this moment and the magnitude of the work ahead.

#Election2020
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5 Nov
Unless you are a wealthy, able-bodied, cisgender, heterosexual, conservative white man, voting GOP/Trump means:

-You benefit from proximity to one
-You wish to be one
-You want to have their advantages & to hell w/everyone else
When #ElectionResults2020 are announced, know there are multiple fights still ahead. White supremacy, misogyny, capitalism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, ageism: won’t disappear, regardless of White House occupant for next 4yrs. How I will fight 👇🏽feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-become…
My concern if Trump won: more fascism, further unleashed by the I-Don’t-Give-A-Fuck of a victorious incumbent

My concern if Trump lost:
- fascism unleashed by a defeated incumbent and his supporters.
- what to do with his base which will not overnight stop being utter shits
Read 10 tweets
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4 Nov
Because of massive protests organized by Women’s Strike - the largest protests in #Polamd since the fall of communism - the new restrictions on abortion were delayed theguardian.com/world/2020/nov… #StrajkKobiet
Enforcers of patriarchal fuckery are a fascist trinity comprised of far-right groups, the police, and the church. The first two worked in unison to block and remove women’s rights protestors who tried to enter churches, the third played the civility card.
Far-right groups have attacked protesters, and government figures stoke the tensions. Ruling far-right party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski Jarosław Kaczyński, told people they should “defend churches” from the protesters after some were defaced. #StrajkKobiet
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4 Nov
Whoever is declared #Election2020 winner, there are multiple fights still ahead. White supremacy, misogyny, capitalism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, ageism: won’t disappear, regardless of White House occupant for next 4yrs. This is how I will fight feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-become…
I began this long day & will end it with love and solidarity to all in the US and across the world who are impacted by #Election2020.

It is imperative that we pledge allegiance to fighting fascism wherever we are. That we declare our independence from patriarchy wherever we are.
June Jordan keeps aflame the pilot light of revolution in my heart & reminds me of centrality of love in the feminist revolution. Not for my enemies. I’m a menace to them. Love for comrades who flex feminist muscles vs patriarchy, before & after elections poets.org/poem/i-must-be…
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