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Jun 30 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
I was glad to speak to @froomkin about the ways U.S. media have failed in their abortion coverage and why they refuse to call the white supremacy, misogyny, theocracy, and patriarchy what it is
presswatchers.org/2022/06/massiv… #RoeVWade
One of the reasons I started FEMINIST GIANT was because U.S. media would not--I know--publish what I want to write. e.g. essays calling out the arrogance and naïveté of white Americans feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
And essays calling out the white Christian women who have been instrumental in destroying #RoeVWade feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-wh…
And essays calling out liberal and conservative white women who did not pay enough attention to theocracy and patriarchy right here at home feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…
FEMINIST GIANT is reader supported. I've kept it free, deliberately. And always say if you can pay, it helps to keep it free.

And enough readers do.

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Abortion is personal for me.

I have had an "illegal" abortion and a "legal" abortion. And the fight must always be for safe and accessible abortion on demand. Fuck the State and fuck the Supreme Court feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-…
“What the U.S. media is incapable of doing is saying clearly that this is a white supremacist Christian movement driven by white supremacist, Christian zealots who are patriarchal to the core,” I told @froomkin “They’re tiptoeing around it..." presswatchers.org/2022/06/massiv…
"they don’t want to call them zealots,they don’t want to call it a theocracy,they don’t want to say they’re patriarchal,they don’t want to say they’re anti-feminist. They just tiptoe around all of this, mostly, because these are white Christian people,incl white Christian women.”
The same arrogance and naiveté that made so many white Americans think Trump would never become president is that same arrogance and naiveté that made so many think "it would never happen here" about abortion bans as well. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
Unless the United States develops the stomach for a long-overdue reckoning with the white supremacist Christian theocracy that has been unabashed in its destruction of Roe v Wade, abortion rights will not be the only rights it destroyed. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-wh…
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Jun 30
I say this almost every day: I moved to the U.S. in 2000. Over the past 2 decades, I've learned that many white Americans have a delusional amount of confidence in their government and its institutions.
feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…
They are childishly naive in believing that institutions will save them/work for, not ever hurt them.

That stubborn belief in U.S. exceptionalism undergirds the refusal to see the fascism that Trump brought.
Black, Indigenous, and people of colour have no such delusions. They do not expect institutions to protect them because they are so often hurt by those institutions.
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Jun 30
Abortion bans are intent on punishing us for daring to take ownership of our bodies and our sexual desire outside of the norms. They aim to police our bodies and punish us for sex outside of marriage between a man and a woman. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-se… #AbortionRightsAreHumanRights
Abortion bans are driven by zealots and puritans.

We must not dance to their agenda but instead fuck to our heart’s content whomever (with their consent, obviously) and whenever, secure in the knowledge and the right to determine the consequences.
Abortion is a human right, not a bonus or a reward we must earn.

feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-… #AbortionIsHealthcare
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Jun 29
These are clips from Australian TV show Q&A that are making the rounds again. Always good to see! I remind you that soon after airing live, it was banned and has never been unbanned even though the govt media body cleared it for replay.

Fuck civility

“How long must we wait for men and boys to stop murdering us, to stop beating us and to stop raping us? How many rapists must we kill?"

For more on civility and why I reject it:

feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-… #WhyISayFuck
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Jun 28
Heteronormative patriarchy’s designated shelf life for cisgender women is the age at which we cease to be its walking incubators. And yet here is Nancy, a woman in her early 60s who not only wants to fuck but has planned--with time, money, and a "fuck-it" list--how she wants to.
How often do films center a woman in her early 60s? Rarer still is the film that centres a woman in her early 60s who wants to fuck. Patriarchy’s Map of Life for us women 50+ delineates a Hiking Trail Into the Kingdom of Shriveling Up and Fading Away. feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-…
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Jun 28
I have had 2 abortions. I know how rare it is for someone from my background to see themselves in abortion narratives. And because of that, I know how necessary it is for those of us who can, to share our stories. #RoevWade #ourabortionstories feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-se…
The few abortion narratives that are considered “acceptable” are often prefaced with trauma and pain—as if they were the price to be exacted for bodily autonomy.

It is important to share abortion stories that say simply: I did not want to be pregnant. feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-…
I was not raped. I was not sick. The pregnancies did not threaten my life. I did not already have children. I just didn’t want to be pregnant. I didn’t want to have a child. I’m glad I had my abortions. They gave me the freedom to live the life I’ve chosen feministgiant.com/p/essay-lies-s…
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Jun 27
Fascism doesn't happen overnight. Theocracy is not built in a day. This white supremacist Christian theocracy will be excused and justified because and Christian--considered the default and therefore not dangerous. h/t 👇🏽 @rerutled
It's easy to see theocrats when they don't look like you.

The Supreme Court is stacked with Christian zealots.

And the theocracy they are consolidating is dangerous for the U.S. and the entire world. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
I moved to the U.S. in 2000. Over past 2 decades, I've learned that many white Americans have a delusional amount of confidence in their govt & its institutions. They are childishly naive in believing institutions will work for rather than ever hurt them. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…
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