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
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

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In today’s episode of Marjorie Taylor Greene is dangerous and vile and must be expelled from Congress h/t @rerutled
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And yet "her boyfriend rejected the suggestion that she’s anti-government or violent."
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