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
"On my very first day of orientation, I got my first death threat. It was a serious one. They took me aside, the FBI ... I didn't even get sworn in yet & someone wanted me dead for just existing. More came later. Uglier, more violent,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib
They reject the way so many women of my generation olde were socialized not to show "weakness" when we're finally "allowed" into once all-male spaces. They look white supremacist patriarchy square in the eye and says "Fuck you, I will expose all this fuckery because it must end."
They are disruptors: 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. freep.com/story/opinion/…
They are complicators: I wrote this on the importance of Reps. Tlaib and Ilhan Omar's election to the US Congress in 2018. nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
They are disturbers: they force onto the agenda what for too long U.S. politicians ignored. As well as being the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, Tlaib and Omar question power unaccustomed to being disturbed. zora.medium.com/trumps-incitem…
And they are targeted by white supremacists, right wing fuckery. Again and again. nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
In September, Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on her candidate Facebook page an image of herself holding a gun alongside images of Reps. AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib and encouraged going on the "offense against these socialists." cnn.com/2020/09/04/pol…
The white supremacist fascists of the GOP Trump Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are obsessed with and have positioned themselves as the "anti-Squad." “the antidote to the Squad.” She said she’s tired of no one challenging AOC’s agenda. feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…
And that is why AOC's Instagram Live and the testimonies in the House that she organized are so important - to say that white supremacist terror - be it before or on Jan. 6 or the day to day - must be held accountable. Listen to Rep. Cori Bush
It is so important that they 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.
When I look back at the 10 years since the #Jan25 Revolution, one of the most striking things as I told @F24Debate are the unprecedented numbers of women, girls, and queer people exposing and talking about sexual violence today in #Egypt.
Fed up as I am with the consistent refusal to take seriously the danger of white women like Marjorie Taylor Greene, I suggest you forget the Bechdel Test & follow my If so-and-so was a Muslim Test: If Marjorie Taylor Greene was a Muslim she'd be in Gitmo feministgiant.com/p/if-marjorie-…
If the white women who stormed the Capitol were Muslim, they would have been called “fanatics” and “extremists,” and vilified for the violence they committed, not constantly remembered by loved ones as the best version of themselves. feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…
If Amy Coney Barrett was a Muslim, her zealotry would have been pathologized, not earn her a lifetime post on the highest court in the land. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…
As we mark the 10th anniversary of the #Jan25 Revolution, the way #Egypt is failing to investigate a gang rape is a reminder that the regime continues to use “immorality” and “debauchery” to target women and LGBTQ people. Read this by @Rasha__Younes hrw.org/news/2021/02/0…
I wrote this about how patriarchy--in this case the Egyptian regime--reserves its moral crusades for queer people and women, especially the daughters of the working class, but not the sons of the wealthy who rape and sexually assault. feministgiant.com/p/essay-macho-…
For my series on the 10th anniversary of the #Jan25 Revolution, I wrote about the importance of feminism to liberation. And in my next essay, I'll be looking at how the revolution went home. Read and subscribe through links in the essay feministgiant.com/p/jan25-ten-ye…
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.
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…
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
"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-…