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
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…
And remember that Lauren Boebert, one of two white women QAnon supporters elected to the US Congress and who called insurrectionists her “constituents” actually compared her semi-automatic pistol to Ilhan Omar’s hijab Tweet by Lauren Boebert Whe...
And here is Lauren Boebert with the other QAnon-supporting member of the US Congress. Now tell me: whose lives are in danger? Who should fear for their lives and from whom? Tweet by FlossObama: Lauren...
The 2 female insurrectionists killed last week were supporters of QAnon, which was labeled a domestic terror threat in 2019 and is driven by white suburban women. One of them was from Georgia, Taylor Greene’s state. I wrote about them feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…
So while white US members of Congress are too scared to speak at impeachment hearings because they fear white supremacist fascists incited by their president, remember the audacious innocence afforded to white women and the fuckery they get away with
That is the first of my essays looking at the insurrection from a feminist lens. More very soon.

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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
13 Jan
Fuck the patriarchy in every time zone and every universe.
Profanity is an essential tool in disrupting patriarchy and its rules. It is the verbal equivalent of civil disobedience.
Read 4 tweets
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
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
12 Jan
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
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
“...the most masculine person, I think, to ever hold the White House is the President of the United States.” A tweet by Trump of a picture of the boxer Rocky, shirtless
That is exactly why I wrote this essay on the preening hyper masculinity of fascism feministgiant.com/p/essay-macho-…
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