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5 Aug, 8 tweets, 4 min read
“You guys don’t seem to have a problem when we’re kicking the sh-t out of Black people…But when we’re kicking the sh-t out of white people, uh-oh, that’s an issue?” Michael Fanone, a cop almost beaten to death on #Jan6, to GOP members of Congress.

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“This is not America...They’re shooting at us. They’re supposed to shoot BLM, but they’re shooting the patriots,” one of the white woman who joined the #Jan6 insurrection, actually said that day feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…
#January6th was white people vs white people and too many white people don’t want to do anything about it because it will demand a reckoning with whiteness.
And the competing white narratives of Mike Fanone vs Ashli Babbitt are a reminder of why I refuse to choose and say fuck both white sides.
Ashli Babbitt she never imagined the Capitol Police would shoot her because the police rarely shoot white women, unless it’s a cop who shoots his wife at home.

feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…
Mike Fanone is a "self-described redneck cop who voted for Donald Trump (and who) was beaten unconscious by a mob waving Thin Blue Line flags and chanting “U.S.A.”

He never imagined he would almost be killed by one of his kind. time.com/6087577/michae…
Ashli Babbitt, 14yr Air Force veteran, never imagined she'd survive fighting for regime change “over there” only to die fighting for regime change “over here.” She was only person shot by Capitol Police while trying to storm the Congress of her own country feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…
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6 Aug
Every time I see Ashli Babbitt trending, I will remind you:

Ashli Babbitt never imagined the Capitol Police would shoot her because the police rarely shoot white women, unless it’s a cop who shoots his wife at home. feministgiant.com/p/white-women-… #January6th
She never imagined she'd survive fighting for regime change “over there” only to die fighting for regime change “over here.” A 14yr Air Force vet who fought in Iraq & Afghanistan, she was the only person shot by Capitol Police while trying to storm the Congress of her own country
Babbitt and other white women who stormed the Capitol were supporters of QAnon, a far-right conspiracy movement that says Trump has been secretly fighting deep state enemies and a cabal of Satan-worshipping cannibals operating a child sex-trafficking ring.
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6 Aug
Since this fucking pandemic started I've wondered:
-Is it pandemic or perimenopause?
-Is it pandemic or allergies?
I was too scared to ask:
-What happened to my ability to desire - is it pandemic or perimenopause that wrecked it?!
If something scares me, I know I must write it
I feared that I had lost a life force I had fought so hard for.

I did not know whether it was the stress and grief of a global pandemic or the unpredictability of perimenopause that seemed to have wrenched open a chasm that swallowed up my desire.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-des…
I wasn’t paying attention at first, to be honest: to either my perimenopause or the pandemic. And so when they both collided, I was constantly wondering:

- Is it perimenopause or the pandemic?

And so I wrote about falling apart.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-fallin…
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5 Aug
What does desire look like liberated from the pressure of heteronormativity and enforced monogamy? What desire is a cis woman who is child free by choice “allowed” to have at 54 years of age? What does desire look like liberated from the pressure to have children?
When I write about desire as a 54yo woman, I understand that the reckoning now is with taboos around age and the expectations that suffocate it.

I am claiming my desire by claiming my age.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-des…
For too long, I had been told I “didn’t look” whatever age that I was. It was said to me as if it were a compliment. It was not. It was instead the loathing of aging that we are socialized into. #ThisIs54 Mona sitting at a table, visible from the chest up with her
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4 Aug
In many non-Western countries, speaking about such things as desire is scorned as “white” or “Western” behavior. I’ve been accused of being “obsessed” with sex because I insist on talking openly about desire.
Who we can desire & who has the right to desire are neither “white” nor “Western” concerns. They are there in my heritage, as a woman born in Egypt to a Muslim family, whose first language is Arabic. feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-des…
Listen to the open, unabashed desire of I’timad Arrumaikiyya, an 11thC Arab poet:

"I urge you to come faster than the wind to mount my breast and firmly dig and plough my body, and don’t let go until you’ve flushed me thrice."

Arab & Muslim female poets speaking desires! 👇🏽 The cover of Classical Poem...
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4 Aug
Rep. Cori Bush protesting and slept on the steps outside the U.S. Capitol Building for 5 days in protest of the expiration of the eviction moratorium, Today, the White House said it intends to extend the eviction moratorium.
Rep. Cori Bush is a single mother of two children who gave up her health insurance to run for office and left full-time work as an ordained pastor and nurse. She knows the sharpness of poverty in a way too many lawmakers don’t. This is from December feministgiant.com/p/essay-a-time…
“I’ve slept in my car… I don’t want that for anyone else,” Rep. Cori Bush msnbc.com/ali-velshi/wat…
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3 Aug
Among the poet Muriel Rukeyser’s assignments for her writing students was to begin a poem with the words “I could not say.” I share what for too long I could not say about desire in my new essay.
What does desire look like liberated from the pressure of heteronormativity and enforced monogamy? What desire is a cis woman who is child free by choice “allowed” to have at 54 years of age?
feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-des…
Listen to the audio essay here soundcloud.com/mona-eltahawy-…
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