Thread by @monaeltahawy

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

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1348660705906614272

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

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1350054759236038656

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

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1351912234327400448

I am writing about white women who are helping to feminize fascism. When Trump said “our (America First) movement is just beginning,” we must take that as a threat of further fascism and we must know that white women will also be a part of that fascism.
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Although the media is full of male QAnon supporters who stormed the Capitol, QAnon--which the FBI labelled a domestic terror threat in 2019-- is a far right movement/group that driven largely by suburban white women - particularly mothers.

White supremacist violence isn’t taken seriously in the US. Its female adherents, consistent w/usual presumption of white women’s innocence, even less so. Again & again, the audacity of white womanhood obscures & obfuscates violence that white women are allowed to get away with