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9 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Ahead of Trump’s #Impeachment trial, a reminder.

I recorded this in front of the White House in January 2020 🎥 @rerutled
Whether we are urged to be civil to racists or polite to patriarchy, the goal is the same: to maintain the power of the racist, to maintain the power of patriarchy. feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
I refuse to allow those who don't recognize my full humanity to expect politeness or civility or unity or sympathy from me.

This TV episode remains banned in Australia. After it aired live, it was pulled from rebroadcast for, among other reasons,profanity
Profanity is an essential tool in disrupting patriarchy and its rules. I started FEMINIST GIANT so that I can write as profanely as I speak.

Sign up - it’s free, no paywall, no ads.

If you can pay, it helps keep it free. feministgiant.com/p/coming-soon

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#WhyISayFuck: It is exactly because of this classist, pear-clutching, civility-as-cudgel fuckery feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-… Image
I am from the “If they go low, I will fucking come for them” school of thought. I refuse to be polite or civil with anyone who does not acknowledge my full humanity. Profanity is politically important. feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
The obsession with civility in the United States is bipartisan and white, and often directed at women, especially Black women and women of colour. The less power a woman has, the less freedom she is given to curse.
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9 Feb
Watching Rep. Jamie Raskin cry during #ImpeachmentTrial, watching Rep. AOC cry during her Instagram Live, watching Rep. Rashida Tlaib cry during her testimony in Congress: calls for “unity” & “healing” without accountability diminish the terrorism of the insurrection.
Remember Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s testimony: calls for “unity” and “healing” without accountability diminish the terrorism of the insurrection and the violence committed in Trump’s name #ImpeachmentTrial
Remember Rep. Cori Bush’s testimony: calls for “unity” and “healing” without accountability diminish the violence and terrorism that Trump incited #ImpeachmentDay
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8 Feb
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.
That will be the subject of my next essay for my series on the 10th anniversary of the #Jan25 Revolution. Here’s part one feministgiant.com/p/jan25-ten-ye…
I spoke with @GaiaCaramazza for @TheNewArabVoice on #Jan25 impact on patriarchy and feminism in Egypt today.

Full interview english.alaraby.co.uk/english/indept…

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8 Feb
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…
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8 Feb
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…
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