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6 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Remember when Ted Yoho called Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a “fucking bitch” last year? In my latest essay, I look at how she disrupts white supremacist patriarchy, whether it’s Yoho or Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley--who cheered on the January 6 insurrectionists who targeted her.
Disruptors of white supremacist patriarchy: And 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.
Reps. AOC, Tlaib and Ilhan Omar are congresswoman who use their position of power to force onto the agenda what for too long U.S. politicians ignored. That is why Marjorie Taylor Greene & Lauren Boebert et al portray themselves as the “anti-Squad”
Essay: AOC the Disruptor by @monaeltahawy feministgiant.com/p/essay-aoc-th…
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8 Feb
Today marks 1,000 days in prison for #Saudi feminist @LoujainHathloul. She has been brutally tortured and went on hunger strike twice. Loujain was sentenced to nearly 6 years for fighting for Saudi women.

We remember you, Loujain.

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I wrote this soon after Loujain was detained in May 2018 as part of #Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman’s crackdown against 3 generations of feminists who’d been fighting not just vs driving ban but the guardianship system -the foundation of patriarchy
nytimes.com/2018/06/18/opi…
And here is more background on the women’s rights activists who were detained and put on trial as part of that crackdown

On 15 May 2018, a number of prominent Saudi women’s human rights activists were arrested. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
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7 Feb
What's it like to fall apart in the middle of a pandemic that coincides with your perimenopause & a grief anniversary? My mind felt like a car that was trying to drive with the hand brake on. And there was nothing to do but sit with it, screeching and all. feministgiant.com/p/essay-fallin…
I think twice before I share vulnerability on social media. When you’re a feminist accustomed to having the dogs of patriarchy let loose on you, you become more comfortable with vowing to bring pain to your enemies than to admitting to your own. But I have learned to do both:
be on the lookout for the dogs of patriarchy, ready to kick their teeth in & also keep my pain soft. When I do share my pain,it's held with such care & love by my community of strangers & comrades online that I have to remind myself: softness drives the revolution as much as rage
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7 Feb
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest woman elected to the US Congress. And it shows! It shows in the way she refuses to put up and shut up. It shows in the way she refuses to be grateful because the white boys let her in their club called Congress feministgiant.com/p/essay-aoc-th…
Remember when Ted Yoho called AOC a “fucking bitch” last year? I cannot recall another female lawmaker get up in Congress and say “Not today. Not me” in the way AOC did in response.
The election of AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and more recently Cori Bush, was a big fuck you to white supremacists, misogynists, Islamophobes, racists. They are Black and women of colour, including Muslim women, who refuse to stay in their appointed place Reps. Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pr...
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6 Feb
"I’m a mom with eight kids. That’s it. I work. And I garden. And raise chickens. And sell cheese at a farmers’ market.” said one of the many white women who stormed the Capitol. Remember that QAnon is driven largely by white suburban women, particularly mothers as I say in 👇🏽
Rachel Marie Powell, a Pennsylvania mother of eight, used a bullhorn to give directions on storming the Capitol building, has been arrested.
huffingtonpost.ca/entry/woman-wh…
When U.S. media take deep dives into QAnon, it is stunning how much fuckery white women get away with. QAnon channels far-right white supremacist fuckery into concern for children. And who dares argue with that most deified of creatures, the white mother?feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…
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6 Feb
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 Text: We need noting short of a recognition that ending (FGM
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5 Feb
When I wrote about the audacious innocence afforded to white womanhood, this too is what I meant Text: A Judge Will Let One Of The Capitol Rioters Go On A &q
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…
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