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22 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Soon after the pandemic started, I shaved off all my hair. And wrote this on the structures of patriarchy that ensure girls obey: religion, law, teachers, norms, beauty standards that sit atop the three-legged stool of capitalism and racism and misogyny. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ki…
To work on my draft for what is to come, I stood in the lightness and liberation of my scalp, running my hand across it, soft and tough at once, like the new skin after a scab peels away.
Where does power lie? With the eye of the beholder of ugly or with she/he/they who says FUCK YOUR EYE AND WHAT IT SEES?

Are you a boy? Are you a girl? Who the fuck cares.

Are you ugly? Fuck the beholder and the eye of the beholder.
More of my personal essays here.

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22 Jan
Thank you @AhNidzara for this interview with #Albanian activist Ferdez Onuzi kosovotwopointzero.com/en/ferdez-onuz…. https://t.co/s48WAt9hWM
"Suburban girls...grow up in fear...of their father or any other male figure in the family... men outside the house, classmates, the neighborhood...their husband, brother-in-law, father-in-law, of every patriarchal & authoritarian figure who robs them of their freedom & spirit"
"The biggest challenge is to overcome this fear in the family, in the first structure of oppression....Raising your voice, demanding your rights, rejecting violence becomes a philosophy and a practice of life. These are important because what does life in servitude mean?"
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22 Jan
Armed white supremacists who stormed the Capitol Jan. 6 had wanted to assassinate politicians. Much of their hate and threats were directed at female politicians.

Trump’s pardon of Bannon is a reminder of that white supremacist patriarchy run amok feministgiant.com/p/the-self-par…
You have probably seen the picture of Richard “Bigo” Barnett, stretched out in the office of the most powerful woman in the country, his feet on a desk. He is now under arrest, but while he was still high on Big Dick Energy, Bigo was happy to boast to a New York Times reporter... A supporter of US President...
“I wrote her a nasty note, put my feet up on her desk and scratched my balls,” Bigo told Matthew Rosenberg. His note to Speaker Pelosi: “Nancy, Bigo was here you bitch,” Bigo said.
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21 Jan
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. His next iteration will be cleaner, fitter, better dressed and politer.
feministgiant.com/p/the-self-par…
Trump was the fruition of white supremacy, misogyny, Christian fundamentalism, militarism and authoritarianism.

And Steve Bannon is the gardener tasked with pruning and cross-pollinating the poisonous blossoms.
“I want you to know that “uniting” and “being civil” with white supremacist patriarchy makes you complicit in its crimes. We must never “get along” with fascists. We must never “unite” with white supremacists. We must always “argue” with patriarchy.”

feministgiant.com/p/letter-dear-…
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21 Jan
New: “While I am glad to see Trump leave the White House, the white supremacist patriarchy he greenlit from the highest office in the land will not suddenly surrender and pack their Glocks, nor will they run out of “bitches” and “cunts” to target.”   
feministgiant.com/p/the-self-par…
The “bitches” and “cunts” are direct quotes from messages from the armed white supremacists who stormed the nation’s Capitol two weeks ago who had wanted to assassinate politicians. Much of their hate and threats were directed at female politicians.
Bannon is the chief-of-staff of white supremacist patriarchy. Trump’s pardon of was a thank you for his help in engineering the attempted coup to keep Trump in power.

And Bannon knows where the “war” is:
feminism versus white supremacist patriarchy. He has said so. Text: While watching the Golden Globes in January 2018 with
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21 Jan
My new essay looks at #Trump’s legacy and #Bannon’s role - in getting him in office and in trying to keep him in office via Jan. 6 insurrection. It’s the third part of my series that looks at the insurrection through a feminist lens.
This is part one: on female insurrectionists.

feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…
And this is part two: on female lawmakers who supported the insurrection. feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…
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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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