“Your imagination brought you to the streets. Your disobedience kept you there...Remember how you felt when you knew that you deserved to be free!” #Jan25
Our broken and impatient hearts are where revolution resides. Our broken and impatient hearts are where Tahrir Square still demands the fall of the regime.
A revolution does not happen overnight. And because, as Audre Lorde insisted, “Revolution is not a one-time event,” I will not write its obituary. #Jan25
From Tahrir Square to the whole world, from Egypt 2011 to all revolutionaries 2021, from ACAB to Defund & Abolish the Police, you cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. feministgiant.com
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Like Ashli Babbitt, who was shot dead as she tried to smash her way into the Speaker's Lobby, Jessica Watkins was a veteran of the US war on Afghanistan. She is accused of 6 federal crimes, including conspiracy buzzfeednews.com/article/jessic…
"Decked out in full tactical gear, Jessica Watkins appeared ready for battle...
'We’re in the fucking Capitol, bro,' she declared, looking straight into a cellphone camera and flashing a victory sign." buzzfeednews.com/article/jessic…
At Trump's incitement she stormed the Capitol in full combat gear. She belongs to a white supremacist militia that supports that far-right conspiracy QAnon.
And yet "her boyfriend rejected the suggestion that she’s anti-government or violent."
This essay about James Bennett is a necessary reminder of the misogyny & boys club undergirding US media and how white men protect each other. Bennett - who left the NYT after publishing a fascist senator’s oped - has predictably landed on his feet. jenzerb.medium.com/i-left-my-care…
I was a contributing opinion writer at the NYT 2014-2018. Last time I I spoke to Bennett he told me to stop saying “fuck” on Twitter. So I started #WhyISayFuck. I explain here with background feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
I understand - because they write to me in private - that many in the US media can’t name shitty misogynist bosses and editors. I work for myself and I started this newsletter because I don’t give a fuck and I am beholden to no one feministgiant.com
Soon after the January 6 insurrection, I wrote 3 essays using a feminist lens to analyze the white supremacist violence that fueled it. This one on white women who stormed the Capitol
And this one on QAnon-supporting congresswomen—who are part of the historic female red wave that flipped seats in the House—who supported the insurrection
And this one on the white supremacist patriarchal violence that drove the insurrection and which will not disappear just because Trump is out of office
Earlier this month, I wrote about how dangerous Marjorie Taylor Greene is.
Every article that comes out about her has to make you wonder when this dangerous and vile congresswoman is going to be expelled and held accountable. h/t @rerutled
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." feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…
Marjorie Taylor Greene is a vile and dangerous woman. Her racism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism is easy to find online and yet look how Elle magazine described her as late as Oct 2020. The fuckery that white women like her get away with!
A small joy these days is eyeliner. And of course my people have been wearing it since 10,000BC. I am putting all that I'm learning - including surfing eyeliner sites at 2am - into next FEMINIST GIANT essay.
"Kohl was used by both sexes and all social classes to protect the eyes from the intense glare of the desert sun. The Egyptian word for “makeup palette” derives from their word meaning “to protect,”a reference to its defensive abilities against the harsh sunlight or the Evil Eye"