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19 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
"I am writing to you because I want you to know the importance of telling a man to shut the fuck up.

I am writing to you because I want you to know the importance of being dangerous when you ask questions that challenge, not comfort oppressors." feministgiant.com/p/letter-dear-…
I am writing to you because I want you to know that “getting along” & “uniting” & “being civil” w/white supremacist patriarchy makes you complicit in its crimes. We must never “get along” w/fascists.We must never “unite” w/white supremacists.We must always “argue” w/patriarchy
I am writing to urge you to stop wanting to be liked, and demand instead to be free.

Polite and well-behaved girls do not terrify the patriarchy. We must terrify patriarchy. feministgiant.com/p/coming-soon
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19 Jan
This gives a whole new meaning to eating cake...
Patriarchy is obsessed with genitals: “The cakes, topped with genitalia and underwear fashioned out of fondant icing, were eaten at a birthday party at an exclusive Cairo sports club. After photographs went viral , the baker was arrested and later released on $319 (£234) bail.”
Fucking ludicrous: “A top religious body warned that such baked goods were forbidden by Islam.
Dar al-Ifta wrote on Facebook that products featuring sexual representations were "an assault on the value system and a crude abuse of society".
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19 Jan
There is nothing “kind” about leaving kids to go hungry. There is nothing “civil” about racism. There is nothing “kind” about leaving 89,000 to die of a pandemic that’s disproportionately affected Black and people of colour. h/t @W1Girl 👇🏽 Guardian newspaper headline...
Whether we are urged to be civil to racists or polite to patriarchy, the goal is the same: to maintain the power of the racist, to maintain the power of patriarchy. feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
I refuse to be polite or civil with anyone who does not acknowledge my full humanity. Profanity for me is political, not just personal. And Boris Johnson is exactly of the white men I talk about here
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19 Jan
Like Ashli Babbitt, Jessica Watson is a white woman and a veteran of the US war in Afghanistan. Babbitt - who was the only insurrectionist shot dead on Jan 6 (she was pummeling her way into Speakers Lobby) - was Air Force. Watson was Army. Tweet by Cleavon MD: ARRESTED: Jessica Watson, 38, from Wood
Ashli Babbitt & Jessica Watson remind me of the men who joined the mujahideen to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan only to return home to Egypt or Algeria and turn their guns on governments there. Is the U.S. ready to make those connections? feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…
In my new essay, I will look at the legacy of white supremacist patriarchy that Trump greenlit.

He is not an aberration but a fruition, and the rotten fruit on display at the Capitol will fester long after Trump leaves.

Coming soon here - sign up feministgiant.com
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18 Jan
Rep. Steve Cohen says he and a colleague saw Rep. Lauren Boebert giving people a tour of the Capitol in the days leading up to the riot h/t @rerutled
On the day of the riot, as a mob of insurrectionists gathered outside the Capitol, Rep. Lauren Boebert spoke on their behalf inside.

“I have constituents outside this building right now! I promised my voters to be their voice!”
First-time GOP Congresswomen Marjorie Taylor Greene & Lauren Boebert might not have been among fanatics who stormed the Capitol Jan6, but their views very much make them fanatics within that same building. They are dangerous & vile. I wrote this about them feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…
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18 Jan
MTG is ranting this morning after Twitter suspended her for election misinformation. In 2020, Politico uncovered hours of FB videos in which she tells Muslims to "stay in the Middle East...you can have a whole bunch of wives, or goats, or sheep, or whatever you want..."
Here's the Politico article from June 2020 about the hours of Facebook videos in which MTG "expresses racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic views." A simple Google search on MTG brings it up. That Elle profile is from October. politico.com/news/2020/06/1…
In September 2020, Greene posted on her candidate Facebook page an image of herself holding a gun alongside images of Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib and encouraged going on the "offense against these socialists." cnn.com/2020/09/04/pol…
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18 Jan
So many white women to add to the list in my essay Tweet by Kyle Cheney: NEW: The FBI is investigating a claim
And this mum Daily Beast tweet: UPDATE: Officials in Tennessee have arres
And this school therapist David Begnaud tweet: ARRESTED: Christine Priola, a school th
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