One after another, white women as the face of American fascism h/t @realkatyhilton
White women as the face of American fascism: Marjorie Taylor Greene 📷Joshua Roberts/Reuters h/t @rerutled
White women as the face of American fascism: Fascists want that white female face to their white supremacist misogyny so that they can shrug and say “We aren't misogynist. We have women on our side.” feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…
White women as the face of American fascism: the presence of so many white women in the insurrection must be noted because it is the presence of these white women that gives cover to this vicious white supremacist patriarchy. feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…
White women as the face of American fascism: essay soon here feministgiant.com
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Today is Intl Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. It hurts my heart that my country of birth #Egypt has the greatest # of women & girls who have been subjected to this crime in the world. They include members of my extended family theguardian.com/society/2016/a…#EndFGM
Fuck virginity, hymens, chastity and "purity" that make parents cut and mutilate their daughters. Ever since I learned members of my extended family were subjected to #FGM, I've been writing, obsessively against it. nytimes.com/2014/11/17/opi…#EndFGM
Feb 6 is International Day of #ZeroToleranceDay for #FGM- female genital mutilation.
I was born in #Egypt, where FGM prevalence is 87.2% among all women aged 15-49.
FGM is about controlling female sexuality. That's it. It is a crime and it must end everywhere. #EndFGM
If they were not white or certainly if they were Muslim, these women would be called fanatics and terrorists and would not be allowed to go to Mexico after storming the Capitol, thus is the privilege of whiteness - the audacious innocence afforded to white womanhood.
A federal judge on Friday night approved a Texas woman's request to travel to Mexico for a prepaid "work-related bonding retreat" after she was charged in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the US Capitol. buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
You will remember Rep. Rashida Tlaib's "Impeach the motherfucker" during a party celebrating her election in 2018. You should also remember that in 2016, along with 12 other women, she disrupted a speech Trump was giving in Detroit.
I wrote about it here in this essay on the importance of Reps. Tlaib and Ilhan Omar's election to the US Congress nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
Tlaib and Omar are congresswoman who can use their position of power to force onto the agenda what for too long U.S. politicians ignored. As well as being the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, they question power unaccustomed to being disturbed. zora.medium.com/trumps-incitem…
“The fear of not knowing who will be taken next, my friends have been abducted, my partner has been abducted, I think I am fortunate that I got out when I could,” @drstellanyanzi
“I am in Kenya because Ugandans in the opposition who have criticized the government of Yoweri Museveni are getting abducted every day from the streets, from their homes, from their beds..." #StellaNyanzi
Pay attention to the exile of Dr. Stella Nyanzi - she is one of the most important feminists of our time.
She personifies the political power of profanity. The #Ugandan dictator jailed her for it. And now is in exile.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib's testimony is gut wrenching, historic and absolutely vital viewing. I salute her. And I salute Rep. AOC reaching out to her. This along with AOC's Instagram Live are historic: women in power showing us vulnerability. h/t @rerutled
It is so important that Tlaib and AOC refuse the "Put up and shut up and be grateful we let you in the men's club" thinking that socialized women of my genderation and older women to put a "brave" face on it.
The election of Reps. AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and more recently Cori Bush, was a big fuck you to white supremacists, misogynists, Islamophobes, racists. That is why I wrote this
“The abductions and detentions of political actors were getting closer to me; my children have been targets of police trailing. I just left prison in February last year and I don’t want to go back,” Dr Stella Nyanzi theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-…
Stella Nyanzi is a revolutionary. I devote much of my chapter on the political importance of profanity to her. Her feminist fight for liberation from the 30+ years of the Museveni dictatorship in Uganda has inspired us all over the world lithub.com/mona-eltahawy-…