Tweet

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1325193618756415489

More from @monaeltahawy

Mona Eltahawy

@monaeltahawy

15 Jan

First-time GOP Congresswomen Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert might not have been among the fanatics who stormed the Capitol on January 6, but their views very much make them fanatics within that same building.
feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…

They are the first QANon supporters elected to Congress and both have said January 6 was Republicans’ “1776 moment,” in a reference to the American revolution. But the insurrectionists were not revolutionaries. They were not fighting a tyrannical state.

They were fighting to extend the tyranny of white supremacy, which has seen its fruition in Donald J. Trump.

If Trump could give birth, it would have been to Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, both of whom are clearly created in his image.

Read 13 tweets

Mona Eltahawy

@monaeltahawy

13 Jan

@IlhanMN

How many members of the US Congress were too afraid to speak at today’s impeachment hearing or to support impeachment because they fear for their lives from white supremacist fascists?

And contrast with courage of @IlhanMN who has long been targeted by Trump and his disciples

https://twitter.com/rerutled/status/1349378172102586368

@IlhanMN

I wrote this in 2019 about the dangers @IlhanMN faces as a Black Muslim woman in hijab in a deeply racist, misogynistic and Islamophobic country. google.com/amp/s/www.nbcn…

While white members of the US Congress fear for their lives, remember Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are exactly what Trump and his white supremacist fascists hate most: Black and women of colour & Muslim. I wrote this after they were elected in 2018 google.com/amp/s/www.nbcn…

Read 8 tweets

Mona Eltahawy

@monaeltahawy

13 Jan

#Ireland’s prime minister said Tuesday that the country must “face up to the full truth of our past,” as a long-awaited report recounted decades of harm done by church-run homes for unmarried women and their babies, where thousands of infants died. google.com/amp/s/abcnews.…

PM Micheal Martin said young women & their children had paid a heavy price for #Ireland’s “perverse religious morality”in past decades.

“We had a completely warped attitude to sexuality & intimacy.Young mothers & their sons & daughters paid a terrible price for that dysfunction”

Martin said he would make a formal apology on behalf of the state in Ireland's parliament on Wednesday.

The final report of an inquiry into the mother-and-baby homes said that 9,000 children died in 18 different mother and baby homes during the 20th century.

Read 6 tweets

Mona Eltahawy

@monaeltahawy

12 Jan

I wrote this 2 days after the November election: “Trump said out loud what so many whispered. He was never an aberration, but rather a fruition of decades of white supremacist, misogynist, bigoted rot.” feministgiant.com/p/essay-femini…

“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.”

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.
And I refuse to let you forget the dangers of white supremacist patriarchy

Read 11 tweets

Mona Eltahawy

@monaeltahawy

12 Jan

@rerutled

About fucking time: they should never have been arrested or jailed. #Egyptian court acquits women jailed for 'inciting debauchery' on TikTok theguardian.com/world/2021/jan… h/t @rerutled

In the name of “morality” and safeguarding “Egyptian family values,” the Egyptian regime has arrested and jailed at least 9 young, mostly working class women for singing, dancing, and posting selfies on Tik-Tok, again fully clothed and some in hijab. feministgiant.com/p/essay-macho-…

I wrote more about them here in September feministgiant.com/p/why-do-they-…

Read 10 tweets

Mona Eltahawy

@monaeltahawy

12 Jan

Fox News Anchor: with the social media crackdown, does he feel emasculated?
Trump National Press Secretary: I wouldn’t say emasculated, especially as the most masculine person, I think, to ever hold the White House is the President of the United States