Thread by @monaeltahawy

When talking about women on the Capitol riot frontlines, it is imperative that you say WHITE women. Because it is not Black, Indigenous or women of colour who have a "long history...of contributing to far-right terrorism in the United States." h/t @cstephens2

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1380107618031702019

I wrote about this for FEMINIST GIANT on January 10: White Women Storm the Capitol feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…

It is not "women" who were on the frontlines of the Capitol riot. It is white women who were.

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1348660705906614272?s=20

"Women make up 14% of recent arrests related to the Capitol riot, according to the latest numbers from George Washington University's Program on Extremism."

White women.

"Women were active and on the front lines and fully part of the story."

White women
abcnews.go.com/US/part-overlo…

White supremacist violence is never taken seriously in the United States. Its female adherents, consistent with the usual presumption of white women’s innocence, even less so. feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…

Even when they join an insurrection, even when they are a "key figure" in planning a portion of the attack on the Capitol, white women are still remembered for the best versions of themselves. Women who joined ISIS were never afforded such an audacious innocence.

Jessica Watkins is one of at least four (white) women charged in a sweeping conspiracy case brought by the Department of Justice against twelve members of the Oath Keepers, a militia group that the government alleges coordinated a portion of the attack on the Capitol.

Many of the white women who stormed the Capitol were supporters of QAnon, which the FBI labelled a domestic terror threat in 2019 and is driven largely by suburban white women, particularly mothers.

A movement labeled a domestic terror threat is driven by white suburban women.

When U.S. media have taken deep dives into QAnon, it is stunning how much fuckery white women get away with & for which they are given so many excuses.QAnon provided convenient disguise behind which white women channel far-right white supremacist fuckery into concern for children

During a pandemic that has disproportionately affected Black, Indigenous, and mothers of colour, the “trauma” of white mothers is elevated and used to justify their preponderance for a dangerous conspiracy.

Even as that danger grew, and so brazenly expressed itself in the run-up to the insurrection, its whiteness and its femininity gave it cover. And that's why it must be pointed out that it's white women, not just women, who stormed the Capitol feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…

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